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Originally posted by SWaRFeGa:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by Law_Man:
As far as I'm aware, you are still completely free to sign a non-EU national, but he won't be able to play for you until he:
either fulfills the criteria for a work permit i.e. international caps etc
or gains EU nationality by residing in an EU member state for the required period.
IIRC the maximum is 5 years (e.g. the UK) but if you send players to other countries such as Belgium, they will gain EU nationality in a shorter period - 3 years.
So to answer your question, if you have a Belgian or Polish (might be other countries too) feeder club, then sign him and send him their for 3 years and he'll gain EU nationality thereby allowing you to play him. If you don't have a feeder club, then you can still sign him and let him reside in the UK and/or if you get a Belgian or Polish feeder club later on, you can still send him there.
Of course, FM doesn't get into all the deportation etc business that has recently been highlighted with Al Bangura....
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I don't think you can buy him at all if you're not granted a work permit.
If declined, you can then appeal once.
Then you may fail again.
After this the only way he can sign is if you definitely have the feeder club already in place.
Otherwise the transfer is cancelled. </BLOCKQUOTE>
Law_Man is quite correct actually. I'm playing as Liverpool and I've got two players at my Belgian feeder club, one from Chile the other Ivory Coast.
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