ltfcstew Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 Has anyone ever managed a foreign team and had success with only buying English players? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWaRFeGa Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 Nope. I don't buy players based on their nationality. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidc Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 Well, it's tough to have success with only buying English players with any club, tbh................. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiltshire_Bee Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 I've found they are not as successful overseas, with maybe a few exceptions and also depends on which league your are playing in. I tried recruiting English players in Germany, France, Belgium and Italy and with one exception [Jonjo Shelvey] most didn't perform that well. You'll most likely find it difficult as well because plenty of leagues have restrictions on foriegn based players and a requirment for home grown talent. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boroboy100 Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 Play as Jerez in spain...Just been taken over by the Glenn Hoddle Academy. So all the players are English. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zednaught Posted October 18, 2010 Share Posted October 18, 2010 does Wales count as foreign? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dar2000 Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 The AI are mad keen on British players I played Juve the other day and their back 4 consisted of Joe Mattock, Ledley King and Alan Hutton. Funny how the European leagues IRL arn't flooded with British players Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicolai87 Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 Play as Jerez in spain...Just been taken over by the Glenn Hoddle Academy. So all the players are English. Well, first of all you can't play as Jerez as far as I know, due to them playing in a division that's not in FM. Also, there's one player from Ireland, one from Wales, two from Spain and one from Portugal in their team, so not everyone are English! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgrubb Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 because brittish players suck Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenArsenal Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 The AI are mad keen on British players I played Juve the other day and their back 4 consisted of Joe Mattock, Ledley King and Alan Hutton. Funny how the European leagues IRL arn't flooded with British players Mainly down to mentality of British (or English more likely) players I would think. I can count on my fingers the number of English players moving to other European leagues since the millennium (four. Beckham, McMamanaman, Owen, Woodgate. All Real Madrid) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmason122 Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 Originally posted by BenArsenalMainly down to mentality of British (or English more likely) players I would think. I can count on my fingers the number of English players moving to other European leagues since the millennium (four. Beckham, McMamanaman, Owen, Woodgate. All Real Madrid) Add to that list Jermaine Pennant at Real Zaragoza and Matt Derbyshire to Olympiakos. oh and Darius Vassell EDIT: BUt your point still stands, hardly any of our players still goes outside of the UK to get any experience in foreign leagues. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevio11 Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 Play as Jerez in spain...Just been taken over by the Glenn Hoddle Academy. So all the players are English. No they are not, they still have to play x amount of spanish players as per an article on the internet lately. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmyIOCS Posted October 19, 2010 Share Posted October 19, 2010 Mainly down to mentality of British (or English more likely) players I would think. I can count on my fingers the number of English players moving to other European leagues since the millennium (four. Beckham, McMamanaman, Owen, Woodgate. All Real Madrid) Jermaine Pennant, Steve Finnan, Matt Derbyshire, Jordan Stewart, Nathan Ellington, Ian Harte and a handful of others. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pelicanstuff Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 Quite a few, lesrosbifs.net has a good listing. Surprisingly there are a good few in Iceland. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twizted_seed Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 I did in the a-league. sign em as youths and eventually you get success. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenArsenal Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 Jermaine Pennant, Steve Finnan, Matt Derbyshire, Jordan Stewart, Nathan Ellington, Ian Harte and a handful of others. Harte and Finnan are Irish. They don't count. I missed out on Pennant, Vassell and Derbyshire. The others didn't really go to major leagues, did they? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
La Furia Roja Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 pennant went to spain but failed, derbyshire went to greece, not sure on vassell Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pelicanstuff Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 He was in Turkey for a bit, had great fun with his club being late paying salaries and his hotel bill (locked out). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenArsenal Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 Anyway they're all back in the UK, so it's not like they were successful. But at least they went, so credit to them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gourcuff20 Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 It's the same with many players from England, Italy and Spain. When playing already in such a big championship, you don't really need to move, and the probability of you not being able to adapt yourself there is big. That's why there are no Spanish players in Italy, few Italians in Spain and England, few Spanish in England, and almost(?) none English players in Spain and Italy. It is also how things work IRL. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenArsenal Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 It's the same with many players from England, Italy and Spain. When playing already in such a big championship, you don't really need to move, and the probability of you not being able to adapt yourself there is big. That's why there are no Spanish players in Italy, few Italians in Spain and England, few Spanish in England, and almost(?) none English players in Spain and Italy. It is also how things work IRL. Quite a number of big name Spanish players have made the leapt to other leagues recently though. Reina, Torres, Fabregas, Raul, Morientes, David Silva. Italians not so much, agreed. But there's still the likes of Zambrotta, Cannavaro, Camoranesi, and younger ones like Rossi and Balotelli. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
calvg Posted October 20, 2010 Share Posted October 20, 2010 but look at German players sort of kind of explains national teams lol Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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