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WEIGHING UP ALL THE U18 PROS AND CONS

by
The LeaguePaper Team
20 December 2020

THERE are positives and negatives to the potential ban on signing under-18 players from abroad post-Brexit.
Historically, players signed as teenagers have had a massive positive influence on the English game. You look at Cesc Fabregas and Hector Bellerin at Arsenal.
Under the incoming rules, those lads would never have got an opportunity and English football would be the poorer for it.
At the same time, many more come over and aren’t able to handle the culture, the climate or the style of football.
Not only does that hinder – and potentially end – their own development, it...

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