Comments on: Blatter’s ‘6+5’ rule is not illegal…? http://www.sportsagentblog.com/2009/02/28/blatter%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9865%e2%80%99-rule-is-not-illegal/ A blog for sports agents: Discussing sports business news, Sports Law, and other interesting sports related material Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:28:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Zak Kurtz http://www.sportsagentblog.com/2009/02/28/blatter%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9865%e2%80%99-rule-is-not-illegal/comment-page-1/#comment-120291 Zak Kurtz Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:24:40 +0000 http://www.sportsagentblog.com/?p=4407#comment-120291 Although I happen to agree with the INEA when they say that the rule is to protect the general interest of the game. Their claim that "the 6+5 rule does not impinge on the core area of the right to freedom of movement " is pretty funny. I do believe this rule would have a slight factor on the free movement of players. The rule would only be enforced with regard to teams starting lineups, and ways around it are possible and plausible but it still would have an impact on the market and would cause some teams to think twice about picking up players on loan. I believe that the market would still exist for foreign talent, but you can not tell me that with this rule in affect managers will not have more to think about in reference to their overall rosters. This might hurt some of the EPL teams formations, if they want a player bad enough they will still find a way to move around the starting line up and work him in. But wouldn't that mean that it has an affect on the market if coaches must strategize and find ways to work players into the lineup or to not even play those players at all? The rule might even hurt the very teams it is looking to protect as some of the smaller market teams might not take a chance with foreign talent because of the added hassle of the rule. I think that the free interchange of foreign players is really what makes all players, including these young players, better individually. Local teams like Hull City and Stoke City have plenty of domestic talent. Each season teams like those, move up (and down-Derby) into the EPL and are challenged by amazing foreign players. This is what makes the youth and domestic talent better not some rule. <a href="http://www.twitter.com/zakurtz" rel="nofollow">follow @zakurtz on twitter</a><a></a> Although I happen to agree with the INEA when they say that the rule is to protect the general interest of the game. Their claim that “the 6+5 rule does not impinge on the core area of the right to freedom of movement ” is pretty funny. I do believe this rule would have a slight factor on the free movement of players. The rule would only be enforced with regard to teams starting lineups, and ways around it are possible and plausible but it still would have an impact on the market and would cause some teams to think twice about picking up players on loan. I believe that the market would still exist for foreign talent, but you can not tell me that with this rule in affect managers will not have more to think about in reference to their overall rosters.

This might hurt some of the EPL teams formations, if they want a player bad enough they will still find a way to move around the starting line up and work him in. But wouldn’t that mean that it has an affect on the market if coaches must strategize and find ways to work players into the lineup or to not even play those players at all? The rule might even hurt the very teams it is looking to protect as some of the smaller market teams might not take a chance with foreign talent because of the added hassle of the rule.

I think that the free interchange of foreign players is really what makes all players, including these young players, better individually. Local teams like Hull City and Stoke City have plenty of domestic talent. Each season teams like those, move up (and down-Derby) into the EPL and are challenged by amazing foreign players. This is what makes the youth and domestic talent better not some rule.

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