The English Federation (FA) continues to raise its boycott of Super league. Now, after having managed to get the English clubs that formed it to take a step back, has threatened to prevent these clubs from signing foreign players to move forward with the project.
Mark Bullingham, executive director of the FA, says the governing body, which recommends to the Home Office whether work permits should be issued for any foreign player who wants to play in England, insists that no club participating in the Super League could sign footballers that are not nationals.
If the FA already had power, after Brexit even more, since they may or may not allow coaches and players to enter the Premier League or not.
“We can modify some aspects of the visa system to ensure that people only get visas from contests that we accredit. So you can’t attract foreign talent to play in competitions that we don’t regulate. They cannot bring foreigners to play the Super League“Explained Bullingham, who stressed that” we will make sure that our rule book is stricter. The Premier League is doing the same. We are working on some adjustments ”.
“There is government legislation to avoid the Super League. From the beginning we were very clear that we were opposed and that we were going to use our regulations to stop her. The clubs were definitely going to take an anti-competitive legal position on this. That is what we wanted the government to do and they committed very quickly. We still want to go ahead with some legislation, so it would give our regulation more power in that situation, ”said Bullingham.