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I like the idear of changing nationality once in x number of seasons per team with some basic grond rules that the player needs to be a teenager and x amound of seasons part of your team..

More fun as manager, more chance for small countries to compete..

Last edited by Maupster at 8/26/2019 8:48:27 AM

I think the whole idea is the ability for a club to naturalize a player once it played X number of seasons in the club. This player would also be able to play in the NT of that country, but the NT shouldn't be able to have more than 1 naturalized player in its roster. If implemented this way, I like this idea.
But definitely not when it involves naturalizing the player right after the draft, or customizing the appearance of the player.

Then he cannot play for the other NT. Same as FIBA rules. Maybe if the player only played for u21, then he would still eligible to play in other country's NT. But that's a big maybe.

I disagree with this, mainly because it will NOT favor small countries at all.

IF you are allowed to naturalize ONE player on EVERY TEAM, it means that the bigger nations get even BIGGER.
More teams => more naturalizations => more players. Simple logic my friends.

However, the general idea of "adding" players to small nations is a good one, but could be done by adding a few foreigners in every draft instead.
I would suggest about 2-5 foreign players in each draft. Smallest nations have 46 natives and 2 foreigners and the biggest nations have 43 natives and 5 foreigners.
The foreigners come from random nations, where the smallest have the highest percentage.

For a managers own team, it makes no different, player still counts as own player AND they can still reach NT.
But for NT teams, smaller nations have a slight increase in possible future NT players.

Win Win?!

I would suggest that a naturalized player would hold "two citizenships" - of a mother country and of a country which naturalized him. This way, that player could help boost merchandise sales of clubs from both countries. Also, that player would be able to play for any of those two NTs, however, once he plays a match with one NT, he's not eligible to play for other NT anymore.
It would be just like in the real world under FIBA rules.