(16-11-2018, 14:05)Salopbaggie Wrote: Ok not exactly Brexit but I am still wondering what will happen over brexit in turns of footballers contracts. Presently players from EU member states are not considered to be overseas players due to EU employment regulations. After Brexit that will not be the case and will become overseas players. As will all know you are only allowed so many overseas players and even then they have to qualify by their countries national FIFA status. I think we are ok as we as I can't think of many EU players we have, I am guessing our players from Eire will be ok but even that is not a certainty as Eire is an EU state it may be that it would be considered unfair if they have access to the U.K. employment market and other nations do not. Interesting times.
Fortunately for us when Brexit does happen, our squad should still be mainly British. At the moment we only have Hegazi, Sako and Hoolahan who are non-UK and only Hegazi is a permanent starter so we won't have to make any major adjustments to the squad long-term. That's what I have liked about Darren's squad building over the summer.
With that being said I'd still like us to add a couple more non-UK players to our squad in January to give us more diversity. The German Second Division in particular is a great place to shop for talent.