The FA is trying to introduce a policy that would restrict the number of visas granted to non EU players playing for top flight clubs. There are two sides to this policy going through.
For one, this policy actually does not affect the talent of the Premier League. Players who are affected would be the likes of Yaya Toure, Didier Drogba, Marcos Rojo Falcao and more, but majority of the players in the Premier League are from countries part of the EU. The other end of the spectrum is the players whose country is below 50 in the FIFA World Rankings. There needs to be a minimum transfer fee on the table at £16 million.
As far as home grown talent and putting a team together to allow the team to gel. On paper, the team to build this project on would be Arsenal, with the likes of Jack Wilshere, Oxlade Chamberlin, Theo Walcott and Danny Welbeck with all the young talent in the Arsenal team. Liverpool have the likes of Daniel Sturridge, Raheem Sterling, Jordan Henderson, Ricky Lambert and Adam Lallana. But a serious case could also be made for Manchester United with Luke Shaw, Tyler Blackett, Phil Jones, Michael Carrick, Wayne Rooney and James Wilson in the team.
This type of super teams started with Barcelona, which evolved into the Spanish National Team. It was followed by Bayern Munich, which evolved into the German National Team. But a good team isn't simply a group of players gelling together, it is down to how the players are being trained at the academy level. The likes of James Wilson and Tyler Blackett have been brought way, with potential for Jesse Lingard.
The old bred of players often lacks creativity and often relies on wing play to make things happen. Unfortunately in modern football, Having a creative playmaker is the most important for a football team and England certainly lacked in that area in a big way since Paul Scholes retired from international football in 2004. The English player closest to having the Paul Scholes effect is Jack Wilshere, which says a lot about England's creativity in the midfield.
Quality is always needs to be the first priority for a football club, if the players are not be brought up the right way, no matter how well the players gel the results are not going to show. It is down to the respective Premier League academies, who need to start developing central midfielders, but the most impost import isn't to build a Super Team, but a team that could play the right way. Footballers are not factory workers, they do not perform better just by playing together, they perform better when they have the intelligence to have an understanding when playing with one another. It's not how often you play, it's how well you can play together.
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