England manager warns the national team could face a crisis in 'four or five years' if country's top clubs don't nurture more local talent
“The concern would be the most recent trend – January, when there were 55 deals, 44 were players that were either new foreign players coming in or two that were here already. So that’s 80 per cent of the deals coming in through January were non-English.“And of course somebody has to think about the 10,000 kids that are in our academies. If nobody takes a position of trying to protect young English players and their chance then the numbers will continue in the same way.
“It becomes more complicated. What’s the best way to judge our players? The Champions League,” Southgate said. “If you look at Champions League minutes this year we are sixth on that list – we’re actually behind Brazil and Portugal. In the Europa League we are about 12th on the list of minutes in that for this season.
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