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Since when are football clubs merely part of the national team's farm system?

Were supporters of German clubs concerned when Canadian youths joined their clubs on loan from Vancouver Whitecaps, despite the kids not being German citizens? No. They were excited about the prospect of their club signing better players.

A club's goal is to develop/sign the best players, and to win silverware. Supplying the national team with talent is icing on the cake, but the substantive cake itself is for the clubs to win silverware.

If TFC wants to brand itself as "Canada's club" and only accept kids into their academy if they refuse to be capped by countries other than Canada, then that's their perogative. It's not a CSA requirement, and other Canadian clubs are certainly not required to follow suit.

To use jpg75's argument, the logical extension of a senior squad loaded with foreign talent is an academy that is a mirror reflection. So, when TFC no longer has senior players who have been capped for other countries' youth systems (Frei, Sanyang, Hščanovičs, etc.), you can start to be critical of the other clubs' amount of Canadian content (or lack thereof).

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Some clubs like Salgado's previous club only take players who are eligible for their national team. Chivas de Guadalajara in Mexico dropped him once he chose to take a call up from the US.

That is the exception and in a talent rich environment like Mexico you can get away with it even for a player of Salgado's obvious talent (he'll be in a Caps uniform next year or I'll eat my shorts!). This isn't that type of environment. None of the 3 clubs in Canada can afford to say no to young talent.

Maybe some day but not today and no time soon. Chivas deG is the exception even in a soccer first country like Mexico. You can't expect that here.

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