English Football League place restriction on loan players

News Tank Football - Paris - News #6459 - Published on

On 09/06/2013, the English Football League voted to restrict the number of overseas loan players that each club can have.

These new measures were put in place after Championship club Watford exploited the system. The club's owners, the Pozzo family, also run Italian Serie A club Udinese, from whom 10 players were loaned to Watford last season...


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