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Originally Posted by snorter
Nanook, I read your post and that's what promted me to post this League, just wasn't sure which thread to post on.
I agree with your sentiments about losing your best Dutch players abroad. A few years ago it was England that were losing their best to Italy and Spain.
There's also a school of thought that says having so many foriegn players is bad for your home grown talent...........I prescribe to the opposing belief that it raises the standard of football and can only be good for your young local footballers.
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As mentioned, I would post my further view based on Snorter's post here.
Sure, some sentiment plays a part with me to start this thread. I am a real Ajax fan since my childhood. I start to be an Ajax fan when I saw Johan Cruijff play a game on tv when he was only 16 years old. It was also one of the first domestic games live on Dutch tv.
Hence, I regret to see good Ajax players leav all the time. I can easily list at least 20 players from the Ajax school who have recently made their marks in international top football.
Of course it is good for players to be able to perform on the highest level. In my view, there is no doubt that the Premier League is the strongest European league at present.
Holland (
and the same for other small countries) is losing our best players to foreign leagues since the rise of Dutch football in the late 60-ies early 70-ies. This is an unstoppable thing. But is it good?
But what is better for a good player? Playing every week on a good level in your home league or sitting on the bench in the top leagues of England or Spain? It is difficult to answer.
Also the loss of losing your good players means that they are substituted by your own youth (= good) or 2nd or 3rd class players from Africa or Eastern Europe (= not so good).
The fact that the big leagues take the good foreign players and the lesser leagues take 2nd rank foreign players IMHO means that your own local kids have much less change to start a professional career.
I truly believe that English and Spanish football will pay the price or maybe even are paying the price already with the performances of their National Teams. I even fear for Holland for that matter.
As a football fan in general, I am just worried about this whole situation. But what can you do? Money rules... like in so many other issues!