Michail Antonio, Mark Noble, Ryan Fredericks, Jack Wilshere, Aaron Cresswell and Dave Martin are all classed home-grown players for the coming Premier League season but the Hammers remain two short of a full quota.
Each Premier League club is required to have no more than 17 non-homegrown players in their squad and this summer the Hammers are under more pressure with the release of Andy Carroll and Moses Masaki both of who were used to meet the criteria last season and the sale of Sam Byram.
Possible sales or loans of Marcus Browne and Jordan Hugill further would reduce players who meet the homegrown rule.
This leaves Josh Cullen and Grady Diangana who could be possibly named in the squad as the seventh and eighth home-grown players of next season to allow the Hammers to reach the full quota but only if they are not sent out on loan.
Each Premier League team can only register 25 players over the age of 21 for that season’s first-team matches. Of those 25 players, no more than 17 can be non-home grown players. In other words, if you want the full complement of 25 over-21 players, you have to have at least 8 homegrown players. To be classified as a homegrown player you don’t need to be English but must be on an English team for at least three years before the age of twenty-one. You must have reached 21 by the end of the previous season so May 2019.
Players like Declan Rice, Connor Coventry and Nathan Holland are all under 21 while players like Robert Snodgrass and Xande Silva were not at an English for three years before their 21st birthday.
Unfortunately players need to have turned 21 before the 1st of January to be considered home-grown for this coming season. Sadly Diangana doesn’t qualify till next season. But the home-grown numbers are a worry.
Despite the suggestions we wont replace Obiang, its in Centre Midfield where we can look to get cheaper home-grown players if needed like Isaac Hayden and Phillip Billing (Danish but trained in England for 3 yrs before turning 21.) If we replace Obiang and Sanchez if he goes with at least 1 HG player its give us plenty more options for deals in areas of need.
I think we were all of the opinion that Xande Silva could do a job for us next season but given his mysterious illness and the fact that he’s over 21 so would have to be named in the squad, perhaps he wont feature at all?
Xande only came to us in 2017 and is now 22 so isn’t classed as home grown
Not saying he’s home grown, just saying that because he’s over 21, we’d have to register him and if he’s unwell, that might not be a good idea. Then he can only play under 23 football or go on loan.
I am not sure of what point is being made here, as long as we have enough players, what does it matter if 8 of them are home-grown and aged over 21?
It is the FA and Premier League regulations. We can not register more than 17 non home grown players and no more than 25 players to play this season for PL games
We only have six guranteed so if Cullen or Diangana go out on loan we will be reduced to six and there be limited to a squad of 23 intead of 25