1. Why do we see so many Spanish, French and Brazilians play in many different leagues while English players are known to always want to stay in England?

2. Why are their transfer price and salary so over-priced? For example, Caroll costing 35m pounds or Chalobah being payed 30k a week at the age of 18.

1. Lazy and do not want to learn a new language.

2. We English overrate our players.

1) Much more money in the EPL than other leagues.

2) Low supply (of talented English players) = Higher price.

1. English teams for unknown reason don't trust players from their youth squads and prefer buying players from abroad!Unlike German and Spanish teams.

Simple, if you have a good budget its easier to buy talent and use it instantly rather than buying a potential star and having to forge him over time.

England has stars, they just don't get chances to shine due to the influx of foreign stars.

@V,

1. I think it has to do with the culture of English football and how it is utilized in England, rather than in Spain and Germany. The technical assets that Spanish, French, etc. players bring to England are much more valuable than what English players would bring to La Liga, Bundesliga, etc. This has to do with the fundamentals of the way British players are trained/coached as youngsters and the style of the many leagues around the world.

2. This is a good question and there is not one true explanation. IMO, I believe there is a certain romanticism in the English game that many of the fans share and that is they want to see their international team achieve success. English fans care about and have tremendous loyalty towards their clubs, but they also have deep affinity for the success of England as a country on the international stage. That is why they value their best/most promising British players so highly. Arsenal, for example, didn't have many British players in the starting 11, and we saw plenty of criticism towards Wenger for that reason. But when Wilshere (teams like Barcelona develop players like him by the dozen), someone who is not your typical English player, came along, we saw his price tag raise enormously. Now why is that? It surely has to do with the fact that he is British more than his skills/characteristics as a player. BTW this is not exclusive to England. We see this in Spanish players at Barca and German players at Bayern Munich as well. The bottom line is that domestic players are important to all the clubs, because they help maintain the identity of their respective teams; identities that make up the reasons why their fans fell in love with the club in the first place.

Fred's response just about sums up why the English national team hasn't been very successful in so long.

^^ That has more to do with how the team is managed. Both Sven and Capello squandered a wonderful generation of English talent, by sticking to old, boring tactics and predictable systems. This is not their fault, ultimately, and not because they were non-English. It was because the FA expected them to do it the 'English way', when managers such as Hoddle, Keegan and Venables have been crying out for over 20 years to CHANGE that English way. It's no coincidence that England's greatest success in the last 30 years (1990 and 1996) were under forward-thinking coaches who tried to change the English style, and did so with a team roster less talented than the one we've had for the last decade of mediocrity.

Thanks for the answers guys. Many were different compared to the other answers but they all made sense and are a reason. Here's hoping this changes in 5-10 years. As I find Chaimberlain being payed the same amount of money weekly as Oscar pretty frustrating.