Comments on: English players should NOT get out more, says Desailly

By: London

London — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 07:25:39 +0000

I do think more should give it a try, though. What would be so bad about spending a year in the Real Madrid second team, or wherever, to learn a bit more technique when you’re and 18-year-old struggling to get a game at Man Utd.

By: London

London — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 07:24:18 +0000

The funny thing is footballers pick up languages pretty easily. Even Steve McManaman¡

By: Planet Betting

Planet Betting — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:19:05 +0000

It seems to me that the main barrier to English players taking chances to move abroad is the language barrier and the innate lazyness about most of the English-speaking world that we don’t need to learn other languages because everyone speaks English. This manifests itself in English football already where some clubs have experienced dressing room splits when half speak English and the other half Spanish/Portuguese or French. When English players go abroad if they don’t get the language they are toast and I feel some just don’t want the experience of playing abroad enough to try it when you have got Champions League football as an easy alternative – just sign for a top 4 club!