It's understood that Djilobodji missed out with the Premier League champions already topped out on "non-locally trained players".
This development discourages young indigenous footballing talent, because clubs can recruit fully trained players from elsewhere, often cheaper, the report points out.
Along with Colin Stranahan, a drummer originally from Denver, it consists of the pianist Glenn Zaleski, from Boylston, Mass., and the bassist Rick Rosato, from Montreal — all impeccably trained players in their 20s, now headquartered in Brooklyn.
Uefa rules say that clubs can name no more than 25 senior players, with a minimum of eight of those needing to be "club trained" and "association trained" players.
It is indeed problematic that more English trained players are not fed back into the English game at a later date, but expecting them to stay at their hometown club is – just maybe – too much to ask in the modern game, irrespective of how well they are coached.
But night after night highly trained players traipse from Washington Heights or the Upper West Side or northern New Jersey or Long Island to play church jobs and weddings, Lincoln Center and Broadway summer festivals and fill-in jobs at the Met and the Philharmonic.
