Originally Posted by
Undercoverinwurzelland
Just been trying to work out how these new FA rules on foreign players affect us. Bloody hell, it's complicated. The potential for mistakes seems high. Good job we're the sort of club that doesn't make mistakes...
Anyway, it looks like, in addition to foreign players who have enough points (accrued from appearances the previous season, based on how highly ranked the league they were playing in is), we can sign 2 players who don't have enough points. We can sign a further 2 without enough points if more than 35% of player minutes for us last season involved players qualified to play for England.
I reckon we hit the 35% mark (the definition would include players like McGuiness, who could still play for England even though he's played for Northern Ireland U21s, and Ng, who's dual-qualified but has never played for Singapore).
That would mean we can bring in at least 4 overseas players, or more if they have enough points.