Right so they are bringing in this new Rule limiting the number in a squad to 25 (plus as many under 21s as you like).


The squad must have no more than 17 players who are over 21 and not home-grown (someone registered to an English/Welsh club for 3 years before they are 21). By my reconing that means the likes of Cesc and Clichy count as home-grown.

So lets have a look at the list of non home-grown players:


Almunia
Fabianski
Sagna
Koscielsky
Vermaelen
Rosicky
Nasri
Diaby?
Song?
Eboue
Arshavin
Eduardo
van Persie
Chamakh


So that is 14 players and the max is 17


We then have to add the home-grown bankers:


Djourou
Clichy
Fabregas
Denilson
Vela
Walcott
Bendtner


So our squad is 21 players without any of the under 21 players so Arsenal have no problem with the new rulings unless we sign more than 4 foreign players.


Just a quick point, Wenger often says about not signing more than 3 players per season as it affects the balance of the team. In the invincibles season he signed 7 players and in the 2002 double winning season we signed 5.