@gaffertape Just out of curiosity, the marquee rule is officially gone ya? The media is still saying that Darko is Pune's marquee even though the rule is gone according to you.
Haha, I think IMG-Reliance don't need to worry about lower the quality of the league based on who the marquees are so far. Also, why would they want that?
Marquee rule has been removed....it was badly structured in the 1st place...
2nd it was alowed to be tweaked on Rob Baan's whim ..like with Josh Walker... ( BFC argued that they only brought quality foreigner's to the Indian League :-@ ...claiming Johnson and Curtis were EPL academy products. .Sean Rooney had Australia U20 squad in U20 World Cup..the same one where Walker was Emgland U20 captain. ..and that former midfielder Menyongar was a marquee when the rule didnt even apply ....their icing on the cake was claiming that bringing in a marquee from the prescribed lists would be expensive and most importantly deny Sunil or Robin a place...and that this would be detrimental to the Natoonal Team. .) 3rd the quality of marquee in most cases have been poor....they aren't even the best foreigner's on their team...
Rob Baan shouldve looked at the rules in other leagues & put more thought into this. ..
Personally i think it was more important to force Clubs to spend on a Home & Away youth league. ..rather than a Marquee... . that's the rule they should've enforced
Now that Clubs have signed marquee players...expect them to fight AIFF regarding their U-turn
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#ConspiracyTheories It would serves well for IMGR also as a drop in no of foreigners is directly proportional to the standard of game.
2nd it was alowed to be tweaked on Rob Baan's whim ..like with Josh Walker... ( BFC argued that they only brought quality foreigner's to the Indian League :-@ ...claiming Johnson and Curtis were EPL academy products. .Sean Rooney had Australia U20 squad in U20 World Cup..the same one where Walker was Emgland U20 captain. ..and that former midfielder Menyongar was a marquee when the rule didnt even apply ....their icing on the cake was claiming that bringing in a marquee from the prescribed lists would be expensive and most importantly deny Sunil or Robin a place...and that this would be detrimental to the Natoonal Team. .)
3rd the quality of marquee in most cases have been poor....they aren't even the best foreigner's on their team...
Rob Baan shouldve looked at the rules in other leagues & put more thought into this. ..
Personally i think it was more important to force Clubs to spend on a Home & Away youth league. ..rather than a Marquee... .
that's the rule they should've enforced
Now that Clubs have signed marquee players...expect them to fight AIFF regarding their U-turn