Wenger: Why I'm against the homegrown rule - 阿森納兵工廠足球俱樂部 Arsenal Football Club

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Wenger - Why I'm against the ‘homegrown' rule
By Chris Harris

Arsène Wenger is not a fan of the Premier League's new ‘homegrown rule'.
And that's putting it mildly.

Under new regulations each top-flight club can name a first-team squad of no
more than 25 players. Of those, a maximum of 17 can be non-homegrown. Players
born on or after January 1, 1989 do not need to be registered as part of the
25-man squad.

It's worth pointing out that Arsenal are perfectly equipped to cope with the
newly-imposed quotas. Their current first-team squad contains 26 players of
which 13 are homegrown while seven are Under-21s.

But it's the principle that irks Wenger.

In theory, the new rule will benefit England's national side with more
homegrown players giving the manager a larger pool of talent to choose from.
But Wenger doubts whether it will help and fears the quotas will merely force
down the quality of the Premier League and deny the best players the chance
to develop.

"The new rules on squads are a disaster for this country. It's ridiculous,"
said Wenger at his pre-match press conference.

"The homegrown rule is all artificial. From 1966 to 1996 this country won
absolutely nothing. England won nothing and they had not one foreign player
[in the league]. How has it changed?

"You cannot just close your eyes and say: ‘Let's kick the good players out'
and produce the same quality [in the league]. I've been educating players
since I was 25 and I know one rule. The first thing you do to develop a
player is to put him with another good player.

"In my opinion if you are a great player, you want to play with great
players. If you are a great musician, you want to play with an orchestra
where you have the best musicians. If you offer the guy the chance to play in
an orchestra with poor musicians, he will not be happy.

"It's very difficult to understand the Premier League because instead of
asking how we can make the best league in the world even greater, they have
gone to how can we make it smaller."

The counter-argument goes that it's acceptable to sacrifice having the ‘best
league in the world' if England bring back the World Cup from Brazil in 2014.

But Wenger isn't so sure that trade-off is a legitimate one. He believes that
a lack of quality in coaching - not a proliferation of foreign imports - is
the main reason for England's struggles at international level.

"Look at the clubs. The percentage [of foreign players in clubs] is a bit
lower in Spain, but not much. You can sign players from all over the world in
Spain. Why do they still produce players and we do not? It's down to the
coaching.

"Listen, if I didn't care, I wouldn't speak about it. But you have something
here that the whole world watches. For me to see that some people are only
concerned with putting the quality down is sad.

"That's all I care about, and I'm happy if England win the World Cup. I'd
jump to the rafters. I'm supporting them in their bid for 2018 when other
countries have asked me to support them, and I'm doing it for nothing because
I want England to be successful.

"But they've decided the wrong thing here."

Friday, August 13, 2010


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溫格炮轟英超新政:災難 徹頭徹尾笑話 不該為三獅服務

新浪體育訊　英超新賽季首輪，阿森納將赴客場挑戰利物浦，不過在賽前新聞發佈會上，
主帥溫格花了大篇幅炮轟英超新政策。

　　英超新政策規定：俱樂部的註冊球員人數不得超過25人，非本土球員最多限17人。
1989年1月1日之後(含當日)出生的球員不佔用25人名額。英超聯賽的這一規定，旨在確保
本土球員在頂級俱樂部中的人數和上場機會，從而為英格蘭隊輸送更多人才。但自從這一
規定出台，溫格就堅定地站在反對面。儘管阿森納現有26人一線隊名單中，13名是本土球
員，7名在21歲以下，13日的新聞發佈會上，教授還是直言此舉是個「笑話」，英超將「
不可能」維持世界第一聯賽的位置。

　　「球隊構成新規定對於英格蘭來說是一場災難。非常可笑，是個徹頭徹尾的笑話，只
會擾亂市場。」溫格說道，「從1966年到1996年，英格蘭聯賽中並沒有多少外籍球員，但
在國際大賽中他們還是一無所獲。所以這有什麼關係呢？」

　　「英超必須想清楚，他們的目的是不是為英格蘭隊服務。如果是，他們最好把每名外
籍球員都踢出去。還是說他們的目的是打造世界上最好的聯賽？」

　　溫格指出，新規定完全是「拍腦袋」制定出的，「最近幾年還會有更多類似保護本土
球員的規定出台的……完全都是垃圾。真是很難理解英超的思維，他們不是想要把世界上
最好的聯賽做大，而是想要縮小。」

　　「我們將無法簽約優秀的亞洲、美洲和非洲球員，其他聯賽卻能順利這樣做。這樣你
以為你還能保持世界第一聯賽麼？沒門！」溫格警告說，他分析道，「最好的音樂家都希
望和世界頂尖交響樂團合作，如果你要一個優秀的音樂家和差勁的樂團合作，他是不會高
興的。」如果最好的球員不能在英超效力，英超聯賽就將失去對於明星們的吸引力，聯賽
的水平也將下滑。

　　這樣言辭激烈地聲討英超新政策，溫格是否會離開？據《太陽報》和《每日電訊報》
報導，法國人將在幾週內和阿森納續約三年，合同價值達到1300 萬英鎊，「我簽約只是
時間問題。」而且溫格也表達了對英格蘭的支持：「如果英格蘭拿世界冠軍我會非常開心
，當他們要申辦2018年世界盃的時候我選擇支持他們，當時也有其他國家來聯繫我。我這
麼做只是希望英格蘭能成功。但他們為英超聯賽確定了錯誤的路線。」

　　談到週日的比賽，溫格坦言還未決定派上哪名門將首發，「我們會在週日下午決定」
，但已經不想再多談引進施瓦澤的事情，「目前重要的是專注已有的球員，我相信我們有
優秀的守門員，他們都有機會出現在週日的比賽中。」

　　此外，對於今夏一直深陷轉會風波的隊長法佈雷加斯，溫格表示小法「深愛」阿森納
俱樂部。「塞斯克的狀態非常好，儘管有很多傳聞，但從未威脅到他對俱樂部的熱愛。」
溫格說道，「你可以理解他在巴塞羅那和阿森納之間的動搖，但他深愛這傢俱樂部，這點
我可以證明。」

　　溫格也談到了小將拉姆塞，原本教授稱他將在11月復出，不過現在拉姆塞有些等不及
了。「對於一個18歲的球員來說，他迫不及待想要重新上場。他訓練的非常刻苦，顯示出
重傷之後可能達到的最好狀態。」

　　(G14)


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