>City and Liverpool at least have english players on their teams, not like Madrid or Villarreal who don't have spanish players.
During this week I read that comment several times, always written by a briton, presumably english, using that argument to discredit and devalue the spanish teams that compete in the Champions League. As a result of my curiosity to see if it was true, I decided to compare the squads of Real Madrid, Villarreal, City, and Liverpool and check how many native players there were, well, it turns out that the statement is not only totally false, what's more Real Madrid has more spanish in his team that both english teams and Villarreal, on the other hand, has more natives than both english teams and Real Madrid.
- England-born Manchester City players: Scott Carson, Stones, Walker, Foden, Grealish. 5 PLAYERS.
- England-born Liverpool players: Gomez, Alexander-Arnold, Jones, Henderson, Chamberlain, Milner, Elliott. 7 PLAYERS
- Spain-born Real Madrid players: Nacho, Vallejo, Carvajal, Lucas Vázquez, Ceballos, Isco, Asensio, Mariano. 8 PLAYERS
- Spain-born Villarreal players: Asenjo, Pau Torres, Albiol, Pedraza, Alberto Moreno, Gaspar, Peña, Trigueros, Parejo, Iborra, Moi Gómez,
Pino, Moreno, Alcacer. 14 PLAYERS
>B-but Sterling is english user >:(
No, Sterling was born in Kingston, Jamaica. It's like saying that Thiago Alcantara is spanish or Laporte is spanish because he grew up as a footballer in Spain.
>picrel
In addition to this, I was able to verify that according to transfermarkt the Spanish league is the league with the fewest foreigners of the 7 main European leagues.
tl;dr: City only has five native players lol.