"Eurexit" DB - strict Home Grown rules across Europe.

[..Valhalla..]

[The following is fictional to justify my DB, humour me]

In the lead-up to Brexit, many European footballing nations were wondering what kind of impact a hard Brexit might have on clubs and nations. Many believed that the strength of the English Premier League in particular would be weakened by the enforcement of work permit rules, limits on foreign imports, the overall weakening of the league due to much less competition for places coming from beyond the border.

But despite the naysayers' concerns, a school of thought was developing that felt perhaps a hard Brexit would be good for England. Clubs would be compelled to put more effort into developing their own players, the government and local councils would have to spend more on grassroots football, and as a result the English National team would vastly improve since all top English players would be highly valued by their clubs, much more than the tricky and expensive (and in many cases largely impossible to acquire) foreign imported talent.

This school of though grew until it was being discussed on an International level by UEFA, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL and the rest of the FIFA Federations. At the first serious summit, only UEFA nations were genuinely interested in going any further than the discussion table, and despite believing that a vote would put paid to any real notion of a multi-exit from Europe, a "Eurexit" as it was humorously dubbed, UEFA themselves were shocked when the following fourteen nations voted in favour of locking down their footballing borders and developing purely home grown talent:

 

Denmark, England*, Finland, France, Holland, Italy, Northern Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Wales.
*England are there by default.

 

When UEFA put it to a second vote, the number of voters was even more convincing, and thus "Eurexit" was born. The top leagues in all "yes" nations are affected and from next season cannot name any foreign players in their squads, nor can they sign any players from outside their own nation. Dual nationality citizens are unaffected, as well as players wishing to remain with their current clubs by taking on dual nationality. Foreign nationality youth players may be signed in the youth intakes, and will count as home grown at club once they attain their parent club's nationality. Some lesser leagues remain free of the foreign player limit, although this is immediately enforced upon promotion to an affected league. 

Of the major European Nations, Germany and Belgium voted almost unanimously "no" and remain free to buy and sell players in accordance with the current set of rules. Bayern themselves voted to leave but were vastly outnumbered by lesser German clubs who felt they couldn't compete with Bayern for German players and needed the security of a foreign market to remain competitive. Nobody is quite sure of the reasons Belgium voted to remain.

 

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The database:

The nations listed above, when selected/activated in your game, will all have the following transfer policy:

"Liverpool* are not allowed to sign non English* players" (replace Liverpool with almost any team, and the nationality to whatever country you are managing in, a couple of the lower leagues are not affected).

All loans are cancelled. All bans are cancelled. All injured players are healed for game start (it's hard enough as it is).

Anyone who has managed Bilbao will find this pretty easy anyway, you just have the minor issue of... a lot of foreign players you can't register  

HG FINAL v1.fmf

 

If game start is too much of a challenge, here is the game 10 years into the future (much less registration difficulty to worry about):

http://www.mediafire.com/file/819g90qkkl76ogx/HG_new_game.fm/file

Nations loaded - England (League 2 and up), France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Portugal, Spain (top two leagues of each). 

Just retire my holiday man "Herbert McDoogal"...

[Jorgen]

What about players from nations that have historical ties? May English club sign British players, or only English?
Will Dutch clubs be able to sign players from Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao or Sint Maarten (as they are all part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands?
Guadeloupe and Martinique players in France, etc.

[..Valhalla..]

4 hours ago, Jorgen said:

What about players from nations that have historical ties? May English club sign British players, or only English?
Will Dutch clubs be able to sign players from Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao or Sint Maarten (as they are all part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands?
Guadeloupe and Martinique players in France, etc.

From what I've seen, English teams are happily signing British Isles players and I'm certain the same applies with other kingdoms as well. As a perfect example - Andy Robertson (Liverpool) is neither home grown in nation OR club, but is not listed as foreign and can be added to the Liverpool squad. 

I am having an issue at the minute though where AI managers are able to ignore the foreign players in squad rule at game start - they register the usual players, foreign or not, whereas we human managers are strictly bound to the rule. As the game goes on they adhere to not buying foreign players though. But I don't really understand why they are able to break the rules [at game start]...