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BROOKING REVEALS CITY FEARS
Brooking - has concerns.
The huge amount of money which continues to flood into the Barclays Premier League could stifle the development of home-grown talent, according to the Football Association's director of football development Sir Trevor Brooking.
Manchester City's proposed takeover by Abu Dhabi-based business tycoons the United Group for Development and Investment have given another top-flight club the spending power to buy the world's best players.
But Brooking hopes that will not be to the detriment of promoting the best of what Britain has to offer.
"Manchester City have probably got one of our better academies and with the sort of money they now have available the challenge is going to be where are English players going to get their opportunities?," he told BBC Radio Five Live.
"They have the ability to bring in top players from around the world."
With worries persisting over the continuing increase in foreign players in the top flight, Brooking fears for the knock-on effect for the England team.
"If that 37% of English players in the Premier League starts to decline that is going to be a concern," he told Radio 5 Live.
