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This is a dodgy one. The Home Nation FAs effectively ban any kind of feeder arrangement, i.e. no "first option" or Directors having interests in more than one Club.
SI say they have the arrangement in purely so big clubs can loan players to lower teams so they can gain experience of first team football, and for the teams to arrange friendlies, ostensibly so the lower club can benefit financially.
In LLM, where we strive for realism, it's a grey area. Our initial, and current, thoughts are that LLaMas shouldn't use the facility but we won't say "don't do it", though Zealot's wouldn't touch it with someone else's, to the extent of turning down friendlies and not using loanees signed by the board.
That's what the LLaMa guidlines say.
So we all accept that Feeder clubs in English Leagues are illegal, and therefore LLaMa's do not use this feature within the English Leagues. However, I have a few queries, questions and suggestions to make.
Firstly, I'd like an ammendation to these guideline including Germany as well, as we now know that German clubs cannot have feeder clubs.
Secondly, A question. If (for instance) I am playing as a Home Nation club, lets say AFC Telford in England, and my board make an arrangement with a club in a DIFFERENT home nation, sat Queens Park in Scotland, is this legal or not?
Thirdly, playing in another European country, say France or Spain, are feeder/parent links within these countries legal?