Saw this on the BBC earlier.   What do you think?  Are there too many foreign players in the Premier League.  Not sure exactly what foreign actually means since in a football sense any non-English player is foreign, so Welsh and Scottish players could be limited if this was brought in.

Fifa president Sepp Blatter has told the BBC he is ready to challenge the European Union to get a quota on foreign players within European teams.

Blatter made his comments in response to an NOP poll of football fans for BBC1's Football Focus.

He wants clubs to be limited to five foreigners in their starting XI to allow homegrown talent to flourish.

The proposal contravenes EU law but Blatter says football needs to act and says a reduction "is a good solution".

The 71-year-old Swiss argues that football deserves special treatment because it is not like any other job.

"Workers in Europe can circulate freely but footballers are not workers," he said.

"You cannot consider a footballer like any normal worker because you need 11 to play a match - and they are more artists than workers."

BBC Sport revealed last month just how much the number of foreigners plying their trade in the Premier League had increased since 1992 and the Football Association has already expressed its concern over the impact that has had on home-grown players.

Now Football Focus has shown that fans have concerns, too.

When asked if there should be a quota of foreign players per club in the English Premier League, 56% of the 1055 people surveyed said they were in favour.

The EU has recently unveiled plans to impose more regulations on football and says the sport should only have limited immunity from rules governing employment.

However, Blatter says he is ready to fight any EU move.

"Football has never had the courage to go against this practice," he said.

"When you have 11 foreigners in a team, this is not good for the development of football, for the education of young players, and there is a financial aspect, too."

Sports is all about money , every one thinks about how much money they can make . Some teams don't care about winning they only care about how much they can sell . What happened to love for the game . 

Dont quite see how this relates to Fifa limiting squads to a limited number of foriegn players, but yes money is important however you dont get major money unless you win things.  Fans can be fickle things, they are already not turning up to games because of the cost, foriegn imports can raise that cost.

Although it is important to note that not all foreign players are expensive, and will tend to be better value than English players.

Jen

You have to limit the numner of foriegn nationals playing in any sports team, if you don't you start to undermine the whole structure of the game in time, starting at the international level working down to grass roots.

My vote - place a limit

While I agree if you take it in the context of what Harry was saying today there may not be the young kids coming through in the future and English acadamies may have to get in more foreign talent to keep going as English kids become more and more scarce.

Yes there will always be kids who play football, some will be good at it, but the kickaround generation has pretty much gone.

Jen