If tommorow all clubs in Europe could only use homegrown players, which 3 leagues would dominate ?

England?

Italy a shocking omission imo

Was ment to include Italy in the bottom list sorry TM, The nations with the economy, the money would still come out on top IMO, TM, due to the money they could put into player development and buying the best coaches. Also bigger population pools to pick from. Be like Pre CL era... odd eastern european team winning it now and again.

Missed this thread, has someone already mentioned Scotland?

Spain's economy is in the **** but they have still produced the best footballers for many years now. England haven't produced a truly world class player for a long time, arguable one maybe two, whereas Spain has churned out loads, some of which don't even get in the national team because there's so many of them so I'm not sure I agree that the state of the countries economy is applicable to producing the best players. However my order would be :

Spain
Germany
Italy
France
Holland
Russia
England
Portugal

Take a look at this...

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_Cup_and_UEFA_Champions_League_winners

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Right up till say 1995, Id say in almost European Cup finals, if you click on the correct score then scroll down to the bottom it shows the team sheets with nationality. Pre 1985 almost all squads were 100% home grown with at most 1/2 players not of the home nation from where the team who reached the final had come from. Even from 1985 to 1995, at most, most teams had 2 foreign national in most cases with 9 home grown players in the starting 11. Then after 1995, most nations x11 for the CL final seem to have 4/5 home grown players at most in the starting 11's. Interesting looking at Inter starting 11 for the CL final v Bayern a few years ago, not one Itallian national.

Do the managers need to be homegrown?

We need the Scots to guide us.

Crisp

Obviously a notable mention has to be made of the Lisbon Lions, all born within 30 miles of Glasgow who went on to beat Inter in 1967.

For several years there would be only 1 dominant club, even more dominant than now... guess which one

Maniak, Liverpool FC ?

at last a mention on the BFFF of the legendary Lisbon lions 1967 = Abu1967

Don't forget Maniak you would rip out half that squad tommorow if this came in as a rule..most notibaly.. Messi not allowed to play, followed by Alves, Abidal, Sanchez, Adriano, Keita and a few others, but yes, they would still have the best homegrown team by a mile for some time...but Messi would weaken them considerably in the long run...

I reckon Brazil or Argentina ....

So basically this is the same as international football except some leagues have less parity than others.  Germany would suffer, as they do now, because their league is more competitive and the players would be spread out.  Real & Barca would probably continue to dominate as Spain has the best national team and with their financial muscle they would probably have all the players between the two teams.

So whats teams would the likes of messi play for ... why has not one person mentioned Brazil or Argentina, the amount of players they have worldwide would be frightening

probably because the question said 'in Europe'

Yes KR...

... right, seriously, thats my last tiger beer lol

Am gonna go for Ireland ... I like to be different

Sch

messi would be back at newells old boys    what a waste

england with liverpool carra gerrard rooney because once a blue always a red.