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#2 Too rich for their own good
The specific criteria a player has to hit might put teams off, but that is not the only reason why they do not delve deep into the South American market.
The Premier League teams are also too rich for their own good; they would rather see that player, who comes from Corinthians, compete in another European league for two years and then pay the inflated price, knowing that they can handle European football.
Clubs in England also do not know how the players will react to English football straight away. It is a huge difference to how South American football is played, and hence they were willing to let the players try out European football first.
The likes of Anderson, Erik Lamela and many more might not have been bought by English teams if they had not been seen at Porto and AS Roma.
It might be a reductive judge of character, especially given Anderson’s spell at Porto only lasted one year, but it is used as their litmus test to see whether they could handle the division.
