Limit on Legionnaires in Premier League: possible changes
The limit on legionnaires in the Premier League is oftendiscussed topic at meetings of sports analysts, officials and just fans of football. As a rule, this topic is raised after the unsuccessful performance of the country's football team at international tournaments. This time was no exception. As soon as our team did not leave the group at the Confederations Cup, which was held in Russia, everyone again began to discuss the limit on legionnaires in the Premier League.
Why acquire foreigners
Limit on the legionaries in the Premier League appeared in the distant2005 year. It was from the moment the Premier League football clubs began to bet on foreign players, and not to educate their own. For them, it became easier to spend a decent amount of money for an experienced and technical player, who in the first year will begin to bring results. The young player needs to be gradually added to the squad. At first, he may make mistakes that could affect the result. But over time, he must get used to the Premier League and join the ranks of the national team. However, the leadership of Russian clubs is not interested. The leadership requires immediate results from the coaches, especially when it comes to teams that play in European competition. And at a high level, you can achieve good results only with experienced players.
The appearance of the first limit on foreigners
According to the first limit on foreign players in the Premier League, on the field during the game there should be no more than five foreigners. This project, according to the idea of the leadership of the league, had to fulfill the following tasks:
Improvement of conditions in academies of clubs and development of the pupils.
Improve the skill of the players of the national team.
Rid of the Premier League from the low-level game of legionnaires.
The idea to limit the number of foreigners inthe Russian championship was undoubtedly successful. But then there was one amendment that reduced the benefit of the restriction. According to her, if the football player played for his team more than 10 times, then he was not equated with legionaries. This amendment was canceled the following year. In 2006, the number of foreign players on the field increased to 7 people. What is the limit for the legionnaires in the Premier League now? These are regularly interested in beginning football fans. The current limit assumes that no more than 6 foreigners can sit on the field at a time.
Emerging issues
When they introduced a limit on foreign players in the Premier League, allsports specialists and fans thought that such a decision would positively affect the performance of our team at international tournaments. However, the Russian team has been sliding down the FIFA rating for a long time. After the restriction on foreign players, our league faced the following problems. Popular domestic players received huge salaries. Earlier payments in foreign leagues were significantly higher than those of players playing in Russia. Now the leaders of Russian top clubs get as many as the popular players of the leading leagues of the world. For example, Dmitry Kokorin's salary is 3.3 million euros per year. And the income of Dmitry Tarasov is 2.4 million euros per year. Such money to our players is unlikely to be paid by anyone abroad. The players lost the motivation to get better. They will already get the money in their bank account.
The difference in the budget between clubs
The teams playing in the Premier League have absolutelydifferent budget. Rich clubs can afford to acquire a young and bright domestic player with a Russian passport and put him on the bench. One of the richest clubs in the Russian Premier League, St. Petersburg's Zenit in the last season acquired a large number of bright young players from competitors. It is extremely difficult to get to the basis of them. Therefore, they spend most of the season on the bench. Young players do not get game practice, so they do not develop.
What are some positive points?
Despite all the cons that appeared afterintroduction of a limit on foreigners, yet the idea has a positive impact on the development of children in clubs. Some teams seriously took up their students. Such Russian clubs as Krasnodar and CSKA are especially significant. The army school recently strengthens the national team of the country with its pupils. Alexander Golovin, Konstantin Baseljuk and Fyodor Chalov are already the real stars of Russian football and will soon, no doubt, become the true leaders of the national team. It is worth noting that some talented players took Russian citizenship, which immediately withdrew their status as a legionary. Footballers such as Maicon, Guilherme and Mario Fernandez now have Russian citizenship and can strengthen our team at the home world championship.
What should be the limit?
For a long time, many clubs and sports professionalsdeclared the uselessness of the existing limit. The League’s leadership meeting regularly discusses its inefficiency. Increasingly, it seems that in order to strengthen our championship and the national team, the limit should be increased to “10 + 15”. That is, for the season, clubs will be able to declare up to 10 foreigners. The leadership of the league is not against such changes, and it is possible that the innovations will officially take effect after the World Cup. It is not yet specified how many foreigners may be on the field during the game, but it is already becoming clear that this number is more than 6 people. What is the limit on foreign players in the Premier League should be so far clearly unclear. Some officials, on the contrary, demand to reduce the number of foreign players in the Russian Premier League. In addition, the leader of the LDPR faction Vladimir Zhirinovsky demands to reduce the salary of domestic players.
The history of the limit on foreign players in the RFPL showsthat until the league leadership found the best option. While it is not clear, you need to increase it or, conversely, reduce it. To understand which option is the most optimal, you can only try in practice.
