Reply to CHILL -14:

Actually it was Tom Hicks not Rafa­ that said he wanted Liverpool to become a 'smart­ club' and decrease their debt, Tom Hicks knows­ nothing about real football, not the odd shape version­ they play over in the states!!!! but real football­ which he calls soccer ewwwwwwww, football is football­ played with a round ball, go back to the states and­ leave Liverpool alone once and for all and that George­ Gillette or whatever his name is, I'm a fan and­ dont really care, the day those two sell up and we have­ decent owners again woooooooo hoooooooo!!!!!

Michael

SHUT YOUR BIG CHARRED MONKEY­ MOUTH,A**EH**E!!!...

Hey Chris - obey the voices. Jump off the cliff.

lol!!!..hahahahahha!!!..DELUDED bunch of­ MAGGOTS!!!...

darren & lraff1955,get a life­ SISSIES!!!...go SUCK your mummy's 'SAGGING­ PUPPIES' dry D**KHEAD,& shove that middle­ finger of yours down her hairy/bushy SCREW LOOSE­ P***Y!!!...GO ON!!!...LOL!!!...YOU 'CONJOINT­ INFERTILE' SAD S.O.B!!!...SPIT!!!...

Half a Brain and co: Read well.Rafa is not rejecting­ the idea but he is saying that FA would have implement­ it gradually.That is maybe start with 5Home grown­ players, next year or so 6, the other year 8 and so­ on.With such an impact decision some clubs like­ Porthmouth may collapse

When did Arsenal last produce a half decent English­ player, Cesc Fabregas and full-back Gael Clichy were­ both trained by clubs in the home countries and bought­ on the transfer market. Wenger can recognise and­ develop a talented player but who was the last thirteen­ year old to come through the Arsenal ranks and make it­ in the big time. Ashley Cole?

Isn't it funny how on all LFC threads all you get­ is @#$% comments by cockney glory huntin scum? makes­ you wonder why there reading about LFC all the time,­ "closet supporters" methinks.......

17.Chrls79M'UTD4life....ffs why don't you­ just crawl back under the turd you came from.­ You're not funny, just a pain in the ar$e. The best­ part of you ran down your father's leg, if you know­ who or what he was.

'Rafa has expressed concern because' ever since­ he came to Anfield he's dne nothing but buy­ Spaniards. Very soon the 'Fat Spanish Waiter'­ will have to become a 'Fat Spanish Onion­ Seller'.

Chrls79M'UTD4life just copy and paste its­ getting to the stage where I cant understand you,­ rubber head learn how to spell and write before you­ start trying to comment. 10 million sperm and you were­ the fastest, it beggers belief.

@chill
Hicks said that not rafa you muppet smart clubs­ have smart fans who can read quotes correctly­
PMSL@chill

Rafa was quoted this morning on TV for saying he wants­ Liverpool to continue being a 'smart' club and­ the aim is for Liverpool to have the smallest debt­ among the top clubs, correct me if I am wrong Rafa but­ SMART clubs win things, you don’t, and to achieve your­ goal of having the smallest debt would it also not help­ if your team won trophies? Hence, you cannot call your­ club smart for spending wisely if they win bugger all,­ if that is a mission statement then Liverpool should­ not be classed as a big ambitious club. Not saying­ money should buy success, but winning trophies­ generates money and revenue which helps buy players­ hence develop a business through money generated by the­ club itself.

PMSL@ RAFA

Good points 'Half A Brain'. You've­ definitely shed new light on the topic. However, when I­ said you only need 15-20 players, I wasn't implying­ any 15-20 will do. Of course you need a pool of talent,­ which is why I made the point about the championship­ e.t.c. I ws suggesting that there is a big enough pool­ for English talent to prove itself if it exists.

I get­ your point about the cheaper prices of foreign players­ though. Although I think comparing human beings to­ cheap foreign industrial import is a bit tactless. Its­ not like they're cheap because they are damaged­ 'goods' ( which it seems you are implying).­ They're not sub-standard humans coming to pollute­ English football (As is the case with sub-standard­ cheap goods from China). Whatever bad behaviour is­ shown by SOME foreign players, is no worse than what­ even the most celebrated English players do anyway. I­ still take (what I think is) your point though.

This doesn't make sense to me. Its not like there­ is a shortage of ENglish players in England, and you­ only need about 15-20 for a national squad. Look at all­ the ENglish players in League 1, 2 and the­ championship.... there is an abundance, if they were­ good enough, wouldn't premier league clubs be­ buying them? They dont because when they do get a­ decent English player, they are so overpriced... i.e­ Ashley Young, Stewart Downing e.t.c Why should clubs­ play inflated prices for a player just because­ they're English?

This is a lazy attempt by the PL.­ All it will do is inflate the prices of ENglish­ youngsters even more, reduce the quality of the PL, and­ consequently maybe the amount of revenue generated by­ the PL. The reason the National team has been suffering­ recently is not because there is a scarcity of good­ players, its more to do with the mentality of the­ players (as Capello is proving). The PL need to address­ the problem from a far more fundamental aspect­ (increase the quality of grassroots training), then­ there will be such a pool of talent that people wont­ feel the need to inflate the price of good English­ players, and English clubs wont need to capture young­ talented foreigners.

Sorry its long, but it makes­ sense I think.

This also just means that the local lads will be sought­ more after in an aggressive manner which in turn will­ mean higher prices for very young players. Having said­ that I agree with the principle and I dare say that it­ should be more specific to english players as home­ grown doesn't necessarily mean english/welsh, but­ it should be staged.