You think about the person in your life when you started, believe in you more than anyone

else. They're the ones that made the safe advice. And I walk out, my old man's next to me.

They're not just looking at you, they're looking at what made you.

You know what I'm talking about our fucking game. I want them talking about our fucking game. I want him talking about They're looking at what made you.

I want to talk about our fucking game.

I want them talking about us.

All right, enjoy you on.

Welcome listeners to The Extra Inch.

My name's Wendy and I'm just here by myself to do a quick one-man pod because i said on the podcast that we talk about the homegrown players rule and how that it impacts on our squad building this

summer and i kind of thought about it and realized that actually it's quite a technical subject that

needs a bit of explaining and probably not a great deal of conversation and so maybe doesn't sit

quite right in the main pod.

So instead I thought I'd do a standalone one-man podcast in which I will speculate a little on

the players we might sell this summer, and also how this will impact on our squad building for

the Premier League and a UEFA competition next season, be that the Champions League or the Europa League.

So the rules. I'll start with the relatively simple one, which is the Champions League or the Europa League. So the rules. I'll start with the

relatively simple one which is the Premier League homegrown players rule. The basic

point is that we can name a maximum of 17 non homegrown players in our 25 man

squad. The common misconception about the requirement is that clubs must name eight

homegrown players in the squads.

This is not the case. We do not need to include eight homegrown players.

We will not need to name players who are under 21 on our squad list.

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