Summer Mercato 2011

[Ryo]

You can have as many Non-Eu's as you want, but you can only (currently) sign 1 per year (not in Serie A)....

Therefore Digao's leaving has nothing to do with anything.

FIGC should change the rule, (2) Non EU's per year and then we can buy Ganso

Does anyone know why they implemented this rule in the first place? Is this an effort to promote local talents or something?

After the disastrous Euro and World Cup showings, Serie A officials were quick to blame the results on an influx of foreigners taking the "God-given" spots of the local lads in the leagues, hence stunting the development of the Italian youth. Thus, the rule was implemented so that we'd all sign less foreign talent and concentrate on grooming our own batch of kids to do better for the NT. Not that I blame them, given that the NT really has been through its downs in the past half decade, but still.... It's a huge inconvenience to all those at club level, given the restrictions in place.

Italians always find someone to blame for their own NT's shortcomings, and their decisions to rectify are not always the best.

Kicking out An Jung Hwan from Perugia after the 02 WC was just plain stupid, and this 1 non-EU rule is just as dumb.