Great in principle but it means we'll be able to hold on to academy products for all of about 5 minutes. Chelsea will have thousands of young English players and demand they have B, C, D & E teams in the pyramid. Any limit on foreign players needs to come with a limit on squad sizes.
i know Welsh players currently counted same as English as they don't have their own separate professional league and there are professional Welsh clubs in the English leagues.
Seem to remember one of the Liverpool sides in the 80s being nearly all non-English players. Lot of Scots, Irish Welsh and Grobbelaar & maybe Johnston (Aussie)
The big guns will find a way round it if it suits them to do so, if they want to play a team full of Amazonian pygmies they'll do it and they won't give a single fuck what the PL, FA or anyone else says.
i know Welsh players currently counted same as English as they don't have their own separate professional league and there are professional Welsh clubs in the English leagues.