Bilbao fluctuates so much, going up and down the table every year, but so far they haven't relegated yet. Works pretty well for them to be restrictive

Guadalajara wasn't butchered IMO, your Spanish is alright.

Why did Sunderland catch free smoke in the beginning 😂

In Estonia, we have a team, FC Flora - only estonian players. This year, they got even to Europe Conference league.

Always found the fact that Bilbao never been relegated with such restrictive transfer policy very VERY impressive. Plus, they have Sociedad also fighting them for most Basque players even though their transfer policy is not restrictive. Real Sociedad also like to have as many Basque players as possible.

This was a very informative video. I wasn't aware of any of the policies except for Athletic Bilbao's.

I love that Bilbao keep uphold their tradition and still competing in la liga

As far as I'm aware, Altınordu's policy is not restricted to only local players but rather to any Turkish player, in other words they just don't sign any foreigners. Maybe it has started off as the former but changed to the latter as the club progressed higher in the Turkish football ladder. Clubs playing in tier 3 and below aren't allowed to sign foreign players anyway, so it would make sense that they only fielded local players (probably players born in the Aegean Region of Turkey) when they were playing lower tier football. That being said, Altınordu still has arguably the best and most modern academy system of any Turkish club and they probably feature more academy players in their senior squad than any other Turkish team. They also haven't changed their manager since the current president came and adopted the said transfer policy, which means he has been in the club for 9 years now. This is highly unusual in Turkey given that managers in Turkey tend to stay in their clubs for around 3 months in average and there have already been 5 managers sacked by/resigned from Süper Lig clubs during the first 3 weeks of this season. As a final note, Altınordu has reached the promotion play-off final last year to be promoted to the Süper Lig but they lost to their local rivals Altay. Funny enough, upon reaching the play-offs and later the final, the club president has expressed multiple times his opinion that the club is not ready to play first tier football yet and he actually would rather his team not get promoted.

Carlos Vela is another to come out of Chivas’ academy

If you do another it would be cool to include UCD. Play in the first division in Ireland (second tier) and only field players who are students at the University. Jamie McGrath, the Ireland international, had played on the U19 team but couldn't move up to the senior squad because he didn't get accepted into the university.

For a while Rangers had an unofficial policy of not signing Roman Catholic players to the team, now we have around 8-9 in the team

alternative title: 7 hardest teams to manage in football manager

Chivas fan here. We're in awful shape right now, but we will never change our identity. Also, you said Guadalajara well Alfie.

I'm Romanian and I never knew there was a football team called FC Romania in England in lower leagues. Thank you very much . Keep up the good work

Atletic bilbao is baque only until i start fifa career mode and they sign jamie vardy in the first transfer window.

The fall of South African Football (Day 4) From 1996 Africa cup of nations Champions and with South African Stars in the Premier league like Benny McCarthy(won the '04 Champions league with Mourinho at Porto) , Steven Pienaar, Quinton Fortune , Shaun Barlett etc , it seems like corruption , bad coaching and unprofessionalism has plagued football to oblivion in my country and footballers of South Africa.

Part of my family lives in Chertanovo in Moscow, and I have been there some times, so I followed them a bit. But I never thought, that I would hear about them on this channel. Thank you.

Loved how you included Altınordu. As a Turk and a Fenerbahçe supporter I can say something where even the supporters from the rival teams will agree on... And that is that Altınordu is a club that is impossible to hate. Thanks to them we now have star players in Europe like Çağlar Söyüncü, Cengiz Ünder and Burak İnce and more will come. They actually use Athletic Bilbao as a sample club when they're talking about their business model. There have been some criticism towards their policies for a good reason since they're focusing a lot on discipline. For instance it was rumoured that it turned out that when Cengiz Ünder came to Başakşehir that pretty much his whole was inside the training centre so that Başakşehir had to help him to get a better social life especially in İstanbul. Anyway, hopefully Altınordu took that criticism seriously because they're the best example in Turkey how a football club should be run and how they're doing it on the non-turkish way. Because is there anything that our Turkish clubs is known for is that lot of the boards want quick success and they start flow cash very irresponsibly which ends with same story... No success on the field after that, which ends up with mega-huge debts and don't get me started on a lot of talents that is bought by the big 4 clubs in Istanbul and Trabzon from Anatolia where they fail to adapt themselves to the new live life there. Sadly, that has happened too often. Ask players like Sezer Öztürk, Okan Koç and Sercan Yıldırım about how İstanbul ruined them. Don't get me started on the fallen former title contendors like Eskişehirspor, Gaziantepspor, Karabükspor, Orduspor, Mersin İdmanyurdu, Bursaspor, Kocaelispor and Sakaryaspor. I really feel for their supporters considering what kind of mess they have been forced to go through thanks to their stupid club boards who sat them in that mess. That's the reasons why Altınordu is seen as a good example in Turkish football for a good reason.

thanks for talking about my hometown club Chivas de Guadalajara!!! Arriba las chivas!!! btw you actually pronounced Guadalajara correctly (that's coming from a Mexican)

Fun fact: Malaysia's u23s used to compete in Malaysian 2nd division and then compete in Singapore's League as Harimau Muda (Young Tiger in English). As exchange, Singapore send their team to compete in Malaysian Super League as Lions XII.

God that intro was bloody hilarious

Day 8: every football league clubs greatest ever academy product

13:38 El Nacional has competed in 24 Copa Libertadores, not 22. And they are not the Ecuadorian club with most CL apps; Emelec is, with 27 (soon 28).

As a Sunderland fan that hits hard. The sheer amount of cash we spent on utter crap is silly and even in League 1 we are still paying money for these planks whether it be wages at other clubs or transfer fees. Thankfully our new policy as of this season seems to be a good one so far.

What Bielsa achieved at Bilbao was insane. Let it sink in. With such a limited number of players available he still managed European football and some success. Insane.

Paksi FC in Hungary. Only Signing hungarian players, they finished 4th in the last season, scoring record breaking amount of goals in the history of the 12 team hungarian first class system. Of course giving the top scorer of the league.

10:07 It is true. I'm not a Chivas De Guadalajara fan (I'm a Club America Fan) but Chivas does have this strict policy of only singing Mexican players because they feel like the truly 100% MEXICAN and they represent their nation and league. So far in this season of Liga MX, Chivas are not doing well and they need to wake up if they want to win another Liga MX trophy.

What a ruthless intro! XD Also, I'd love to see some of the ideas in this video, especially the Korean Sangmu, turn into full documentaries. If you're also looking for some good examples in Italy (albeit not so restrictive), Olbia, Pro Vercelli and Pordenone could be good examples to start from!

Fun fact: Atletico Madrid was founded by Athletic Club supporters in Madrid. Their kits are also based on English clubs Blackpool\Sunderland.

If you wanna play Football Manager on super hard mode, try picking Bilbao and possibly winning Champions League. Atletico Bilbao and Real Sociedad have a really fascinating culture behind them. Another brilliant video by our man, Alfie ⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽

I actually say Young Lions play at Jalon Besar Stadium while I was in Singapore visiting in 2011. Nice little stadium, but the league is very undervalued by the locals. The attendance was between 100-200 people. It was a very good game.

As an Altinordu fan I can't even put into words how happy and cheerful I was when I saw my team in the video. Thanks for making our club's name known. Keep up the good work!

Wow, Singapore actually being represented on the channel. This must be a first.

I never expected to see my club be in one of your videos, let alone top it but it was such a nice surprise to see it. We were one of the strongest teams in our country and we hope to get back to the top flight as soon as possible (maybe in 5 weeks) Thanks Alfie, you football hipster

I love these left of field videos, keep it up

Loved hearing about my home town team Guadalajara ! Big thanks! Keep up the great content

The research and knowledge of the subject is palpable in all the videos. The tone of voice and the precise calm nature of its delivery makes me wonder if i would watch one that describes making toast and jam.

Bro I am from Romania and when I heard FC Romania I got back 5 sec on the video because I could not believe what I just heard. Damn, you made my day!:))

Thx for showing love to Chivas Alfie🇫🇷😉👍

Not sure if you've done this but I would love a video on Real Kashmir and the Robertson duo! Great videos btw, even the mainstream ones!

Fun fact: back in the day Athletic de Bilbao used to be the club with the most foreigners in the spanish league

Greetings from Singapore. Nice research on the Young Lions. There's actually been calls the scrap the Young Lions for several years as it disincentivises Youth Development by the other clubs. and promotes a defeatist mentality since the young team are frequently trashed every week. Apart from Albirex Niigata's satellite team, there's another team competing in Singapore, DPMM FC, a team comprising of only players from Brunei. Funfact: from 2015 to 2020, the Singapore league has been won 4 times by Albirex and 2 times by DPMM.. So we've had a foreign champion for 6 years in a row (which is probably a record?).

🐐 🇫🇷 Nice to see Chivas in this video.

Hi there, thank you for adding Young Lions into the list. Didnt expect a team from tiny Singapore to be added. 👍

Imagine spending 100m on fullbacks

Alfie can you do a video documenting the rise and fall of Oldham Athletic and how they managed to go from being founding members of the Premier League and having competed in the top-flight at recently as 1994 to now favourites to get relegated out of the Football League altogether here in 2021?

another similar team to the Young Lions exists in the Philippine Premier League called the ADT (Azkals Development Team). The azkals being the name for the national team. The team is managed by the national team manager as well, and is under the control of the FA in order to develop homegrown players for the national team. “The ADT was formed after it was observed that other countries participating in the southeast Asian games already had many players participating in professional leagues while Filipino players of the same age still involved in collegiate football. The development team is intended give "professional club environment" exposure to mainly youth players as well as select overage players from the senior national team such as individuals who recently recovered from an injury.”

As a native turkish speaker I can tell you that your pronunciation of Izmir and Altınordu was great. Keep up the good work and pls continue to making videos on niche topics.

i've been to Bilbao and it's an amazing city

Hi @Hitc i'm not a fan of EL NACIONAL i'm a supporter of LDU, however it's always nice to hear someone educated mention our country, you should do a top 7 ecuadorians in league football and premier league

Before moving to Canada, I was able to witness in person the Chivas win in 2017, it was exciting. Later here they played against Toronto and I was able to watch one of the matches! I'm happy to see my grandfather's club champion twice

I love this video. Great content!

There is a club in the Icelandic 5th tier called Afríka FC That only field foreign players.

Finally a Club in Singapore is Cover Thanks From Singapore

Been looking for a team from turkey for my next FM save. Thanks for the find!

Thanks for highlighting indian arrows as an example. Massive respect.

Since you mentioned Indian Arrows , I would like to add something. In a 'cricket frenzy' country like India having a developmental team for the youngsters by the AIFF itself and having them play in the second top division itself is a big thing. Indian Arrows too are an U21 side and aims to provide playing time for players graduating from the U17 national side whom are yet to be picked up by top Indian clubs. They play against other professionally run clubs in the league that have mix of both Indian and foreign players. And huh having the average age at not more than 19 years, the oldest player in the Indian Arrows setup will not be above 21. So the football lovers in MY COUNTRY like me doesn't care where they finishes in the table as long as the players get to play and improve.

Love the content mate!

Athletic Club is my favorite spanish club for exactly that

Wow a mention of Singapore football, nice one Alfie! 🇸🇬🇸🇬

Great choice of video, very enjoyable

Happy to see the club I support Guadalajara be mentioned in this video and you pronounced it pretty well for not being a Spanish speaker

Athletic's transfer policy isn't necessarily because of Basque nationalism. There are a decent amount of Spanish nationalists or people who see themselves as equally Spanish/Basque who support the club. The policy started out as a "Bilbainada": doing something in an arrogant way because someone says you can't. Some team said they only won because they had British players, so they decided to only field local players out of spite, essentially. At first it was only local-local players from the Basque province of Bizkaia. Nowadays, they've expanded it to all of the Basque Country, with an emphasis on "formation" over birthright. In any case, being ethnically Basque doesn't necessarily make you eligible. In that sense, its sort of nationalist, in that it embraces the idea of the Greater Basque Country (I mean, they speak Basque in Navarre and France, too) but at the same time, its not an ethnic thing either. Their youth system will take in newly arrived immigrants without hesitation (like Diarra in their B team).

Your pronunciation of Guadalajara is on point Alfie, anyone who says otherwise can fight me

Alfie's new club The People's City has a transfer policy whereby players who own scarves are not allowed to transfer.

That intro was a violation

i learned the hard way about Bilbao's policy when i become their manager in FM, young and aspiring manager from division 2 just left with a pikachu face when i know i have a limited option

This was far more entertaining than the "mainstream" (dire) What if every EPL team was a country? I genuinely didn't know that about Athletic Bilbao - interesting.

Wow, a Singapore representation!! P.S Alfie knows more about Singapore Football than the Singapore Football Association higher-ups

This was actually a very interesting video to watch

Saw the title and thought "oh, he talks about chivas in this one"

nice on .... i will come back to this video when fm22 is out :D

The intro in this video was brilliant, your dry humour is soooo British lol

Funny enough the guy who led to the creation of Chivas was from Belgium and he based the kit off of Club Brugge who used to wear red blue and white at the time

This makes it all that more impressive that for about a decade Chivas could field an MLS team in spite of their heavily restrictive transfer policy

you did really well pronouncing guadalajara 👍

Still think a video going over the top 7 domino transfer sagas (past 5 years) would be great content!

Great and interesting video, another policy in the Mexican league, LIGA MX, is the Tijuana team, where the president allows ONLY Red cleats on the players, thus making them a lot to be customized

Chivas finally signed a dual nationality player with Santiago Ormeño in summer 2022. He’s Peruvian & Mexican and represents Peru

Palace only sign players carrying injuries.

Altinordu was very close of getting promoted to the Super Lig last season, they lost in First League's play-off final to Altay 1-0.

Do an XI of the best Basque players of all time please!

Fancy hearing you speak about FC Romania first as I just started 2 weeks ago an FM save with them (I am Romanian, yes) The aim is to win the league, but with the current restrictions I’d say it is impossible

Petaling Jaya City in Malaysia is another local players only club. A few national team players play for this club.

He didnt mention Hull City in this Video or am i deaf. Something is wrong here

Countries with a national development/youth team that either played or is currently playing in the national league: -Cambodia (Bati Youth) -India (Indian Arrows) -Macau (MFA Development) -Malaysia (Harimau Muda/Olympic 2000 Team/Skuad FAM-MSN) -Northern Mariana Islands (All Blue/Team Ayuyu) -Philippines (Azkals Development Team) -Singapore (Young Lions) Besides Gimcheon Sangmu, South Korea also used to have another team that utilizes footballers on military duty which is Asan Mugunghwa.

Thank you for including Indian Arrows

My team, Houston Dynamo, have a policy of signing players who seem incapable of winning a game...

good video for career mode players

I would like a sangmu documentary HITC 🙌

Yooo the introduction 🥶😱😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Carlos Salcedo was also in Real Salt Lake academy, he counted as a Academy player in MLS

Hi Alfie mate, could you wish me a happy Birthday? Big fan of yours!

Great Video

Finally a mention of Singapore . Alfie’s an absolute legend .

Liverpool’s transfer policy: if they were touched by Southampton they’ll probably end up at Anfield

Man knows about Young lions 🤣🤣🤣

Correction: After 2019, Indias ceased to have 2 top flight league and the ISL is now India's top tier with I-league the 2nd division

You missed my club, Hull. Our owners have adopted the interesting transfer policy of not spending any fucking money.

I have a very, very strict rule when I play championship manager - if you're 32, you're out the door, and only buy players between 17 and 23. Works for me, would it work in the real world?