How are we doing with home grown players?

toonsy

Home grown,but how many others are there?
I received an e-mail earlier from a chap who will only ever be know as Eric asking about our home grown players quota and whether, with our current policy of recruiting from Europe, it is something that we should be concerned about.

The rules state that within our registered squad of 25 players, eight of them must be “home grown” players. Home-grown players do not have to be English; home-grown players are defined as those who “irrespective of nationality or age, have been affiliated to the FA or Welsh FA for a period of three seasons or 36 months prior to 21st birthday.”

But with our transfer eyes firmly locked onto the French and Dutch leagues in search of value for money, is it possible to keep within the rules this season? Or the next? Or the one after that? We’ve already lost a couple of home grown players such as Alan Smith and Danny Guthrie, and with rumours over the future of Leon Best, Fraser Forster and Danny Simpson we could still lose a few more over the summer.

The good news is that we are fine next season. We have Tim Krul, Steve Harper, Rob Elliot, Steven Taylor, Mike Williamson, Ryan Taylor, James Perch, Dan Gosling and Shola Ameobi which makes nine, even if all the players mentioned previously leave the club in this transfer window.

Realistically though, I would suggest that a lot of those players won’t exactly be first choice long term aside from Tim Krul and Steven Taylor, and even Taylor’s place in the team, whilst assured right now, may be under threat if we manage to bring in a good central defender in the summer. With that in mind, how are we looking longer term?

Well next season Shane Ferguson will have to be named as part of the 25 man squad if he is to feature for us. The same will apply for Sammy Ameobi and James Tavernier as all three turn 21 before before next January which means they can sneak in unregistered this term but will have to be named next time around.

All in all we have little to worry about on that front, so rest easy Eric. It’s all in hand and I’m sure that it is something that all clubs have in their thoughts whilst they are assembling their squads.

Well, hopefully anyway!

About toonsy

A lifelong Newcastle fan and current webmaster of this very 'blog who has the sole aim of creating a place by Newcastle United fans, for Newcastle United fans.

View all posts by toonsy →

You may like these posts

318 thoughts on “How are we doing with home grown players?”

  3. Don’t knock the Steel Panther boys Rodz…. your in dangerous territory there mate 😆
    He is an Aussie fella that guy……. does all his music.. really talented.. reminds me more of Sting than anyone else….

      (Quote)

  5. .soz Aussie, wasn’t just ignoring you there. You’re one of the only cunts on here I deliberately ignore. What a ****.

    …that’s me aaaaarrda heer. 😎

    **** *******

      (Quote)

  14. Aussie….I remember that one 😆 ….would usually not correct someones spelling, unless they corrected themselves incorrectly 😉

    Teams often leave one of their better pen takers until last as that’s often the one with the most pressure…it’s a gamble though as last night proved.
    Don’t agree with the theory of strikers going first, being a striker doesn’t mean they’re good pen takers, some of the best have been defenders, even keepers. It’s also about who does well at them in training and more importantly who has the balls to step up to the plate at the time, maybe Carroll did neither or was considered to inexperienced 😉

      (Quote)

  15. It was late at night Rich, i was using a virtual key board, it was dark, I was half watching the tele, I was half asleep, so it is easy to spell something incorrectly like jurasic …… ahhh forget it.. 👿 😆

      (Quote)

  16. Ronaldo also wanted to take the penalty last so he can be the hero of the hour… fecking poser 👿

      (Quote)

  17. Aussie…you missed the fact that you’re a drongo off the list of excuses 😆

    …that’s exactly what wor lass said about Ronaldo 😆 , nae wonder oils so expensive with that fecker having half the North Sea reserves on his hair 🙄

      (Quote)

  18. I agree about the hair, I want my next house to built using that oily **** in his hair in lieu of concrete. That oily **** seems rock solid 😆

      (Quote)

  19. What product do you use in your hair Richie? – Mr Sheen 😆 😆

      (Quote)

  20. Timotei….’It’s so mild you can wash your hair as often as you like’. 😆

      (Quote)

  21. they still make that **** 😯
    right got soccer training, be back later to see what abuse has been aimed in my direction.. hopefully Ice will keep it under control 😯 😆

      (Quote)

  22. Have ya heard owt more over there about Curtis G? last I heard was he’d be signing for £350k ish.

      (Quote)

  26. RICHIE is that footy training in aussie not that egg shaped ****,thought they called the proper game soccer! maybe things have improved over there 😉

      (Quote)

  30. TGS we should be mate,i know we have taylor comeing back thing is hes never played a full season for 5yrs with diff injurys probs,needs to be addressed imo

      (Quote)

  31. dave can you write in english cos i cant understand that paddy language that you write in 😆

      (Quote)

  33. BATTY i just say yes and no and hope i get it in the right place,ive never been to them backward schools 🙂

      (Quote)

  34. Stoke are signing Ness from rangers after a “stringent medical” the lads had some really bad fitnesss problems in the past, This is on top of Woodgate, Upson and Palacios who have awful injury records and they are after Owen who is as bad if not worse.

    If they are prepared to sign them what the **** is actually wrong with Bas knee, Might be a struggle for his agent(s) finding a willing club to take the risk for £7m and all the other fees on top for someone who is uninsurable…

      (Quote)

  36. No news on curtis good I am afraid.. the local press here would be all over it if there was something happening.. they like soccer stories about soccer players. 🙂

      (Quote)

  37. So;
    De jong is off to borussia mgladbach
    Anita is staying at ajax
    Debucy is off to inter / chelsea

    Great journalism journal………. 🙄

    You know that once the journal or chronicle publish it you may aswell forget about them!
    They has as much clue as any of us i suspect.

    Gutted about de jong really thought he was coming 😥

      (Quote)

  38. Liam, good news or bad news, the papers have no feckin idea.. However I have noticed that people tend to believe the bad stuff more readily than the good. 🙂

      (Quote)

  39. I think its realism aussie the journos have no clue more credence with sky tbh or even talksport!

      (Quote)

  44. Hallo Lads
    Any news om transfers?

    I really would like some good news today..
    Something to make my hangover more pleasent.

      (Quote)

  45. Nothing at the moment DT, apart from rumours that we’ll send another bid in for Debuchy and that Curtis Good will sign for us at some point.

      (Quote)

  48. He’s an Aussie 19 year old defender Danish.. had a 14 odd day trial a few months back with Newcastle.. The team needs a bit of culture so he will be a good signing 🙂

      (Quote)

  51. Andy Andy Andy, you have the wrong impression mate, sure we have to hunt our own food over here but we don’t bbq everything. 🙂 🙂

      (Quote)

  52. well ill give it another week and we will get all sorts sightings at airport/training ground as per every window,even richie will see them from spain and hes half blind 🙂

      (Quote)

  53. Ice, Don’t forget the bell boy reports from all the hotels in Newcastle…

      (Quote)

  58. AMF we may be down on the bell boys ones,you forgot richie got the bullet they got sick dragging him oot of the kitchen,hence his move to spain 🙂

      (Quote)

  61. Ice 🙂 I heard Richie was the doorman but he got fired because no one could get past him to get inside. 🙂 🙂

      (Quote)

  62. Ice, I can’t believe they would even consider Beckham..We discussed this the other day.. too old and too average.. maybe he has a new book and needs some publicity 🙂

      (Quote)

  63. AMF thats true as well but i was trying to save face for him,you know we try not to hurt his feelings 🙂

      (Quote)

  64. Uh-oh

    Graeme Bailey ‏@SkyGraemeBailey
    Newcastle could be set to lose out on Luuk de Jong with reports in Germany claiming he is set to join Borussia Monchengladbach instead.

      (Quote)

  65. I would have quite liked Beckham to be in team GB, he helped to get us the olympics and is a global icon so will attract lots of interest in the team/olympics.

      (Quote)

  67. Ice
    yeah was thinking that myself, better he went to the bundesliga than to someone like liverpool or tottenham.

      (Quote)

  68. Newcastle play mind games with twente by saying they are now going after the Swedish striker now insted of deJong, so twente return the favour by saying that deJong will now be sold to a german club… your serve Newcastle 🙂 🙂

      (Quote)

  71. DeJong = Gamero – so many parallels with the stories we were being fed last year.. the press find a golden boy to focus on and they run with it.. will sit back and wait and see with all of this.. not feeling like it will happen.

      (Quote)

  74. AMF have words with your rags over there,Foxs News reporting C.Good has signed for toon £350000 🙂

      (Quote)

  75. I reckon the club sends out a few red herrings to keep the press busy.. while they quietly go about their transfer business.. Pardz said we had a couple of players near on wrapped up so lets see what transpires in a few days time when the window opens…

      (Quote)

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *