Richarlison's arrival at Tottenham Hotspur will provide a boost to Antonio Conte's squad but it also means the club will have to start moving some foreign players out of the door.
Conte needs a stronger squad in order to compete in both the Premier League and Champions League, but with Spurs having had issues in the past with their foreign player limits and their numbers of homegrown talents, the club will also need to address that in the remaining two months of the transfer window.
Now Richarlison will add his name to that list of foreign players and two others who joined this summer in Ivan Perisic and Yves Bissouma, along with one British arrival in goalkeeper Fraser Forster. The problem for Tottenham's managing director of football Fabio Paratici is that the only player to have left the club so far is an English one in Cameron Carter-Vickers, who joined Celtic permanently after his loan there.
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There are different rules in the Premier League and Champions League, which means certain players qualify as homegrown in the English game but not by UEFA rules. Here is how Spurs stack up with their numbers in each squad.
Premier League
The Premier League rules state that no more than 17 overseas players can be named as part of the 25-man squad, with the remaining eight places available to homegrown players.
Teams also name a separate U21s list for the season and when last season came to a close Tottenham had five spare places in their 25-man squad after only submitting 20 names (12 non-homegrown, eight homegrown), with Ryan Sessegnon, Oliver Skipp and Dejan Kulusevski able to be listed on the U21 list.
Eric Dier's formative years in Portugal mean that despite being an England international he does not qualify as a homegrown player. After the January transfer window, Spurs had only named 12 non-homegrown players in their Premier League squad. Pierluigi Gollini has returned to Atalanta following his loan spell, but Richarlison, Perisic and Bissouma will take up three spots and the returning Tanguy Ndombele and Giovani Lo Celso are included again for the time being following their respective loan spells.
Then there is the issue that Kulusevski now needs to be included as a non-homegrown player as he no longer qualifies for the U21 list which means he will take the non-homegrown numbers to the limit of 17. Pape Matar Sarr and Bryan Gil can still be included as U21 players, however.
Sessegnon and Skipp, like Kulusevski, can no longer be named as U21 players because they were born before January 1, 2001. The duo will instead be included on the homegrown list for 2022/23.
Spurs currently have 11 homegrown players at the club after Forster's free transfer from Southampton and Jack Clarke's return from his loan at Sunderland. However, the latter is likely to be on his way again as he searches for regular first-team football, with Joe Rodon and Harry Winks also linked with transfers away from Tottenham.
Paratici and Conte will have to juggle both lists to create a squad of 25 players with no more than 17 non-homegrown players and at least eight homegrown.
Premier League non-homegrown players - Hugo Lloris, Emerson Royal, Eric Dier, Cristian Romero, Davinson Sanchez, Sergio Reguilon, Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg, Rodrigo Bentancur, Yves Bissouma, Giovani Lo Celso, Tanguy Ndombele, Ivan Perisic, Dejan Kulusevski, Steven Bergwijn, Lucas Moura, Son Heung-min, Richarlison. (17 - on the limit)
Premier League homegrown players - Fraser Forster, Brandon Austin, Matt Doherty, Joe Rodon, Ben Davies, Japhet Tanganga, Ryan Sessegnon, Oliver Skipp, Harry Winks, Jack Clarke, Harry Kane. (11)
U21 list - Harvey White, Pape Matar Sarr, Bryan Gil, Dane Scarlett, Troy Parrott.
Champions League
What will complicate matters for Conte and Paratici is that the homegrown rules do differ between the Premier League and Champions League. This has caused previous Spurs managers some major headaches and resulted in players needing to be left out of European competition.
The main issue is that players who learned their trade outside of England are seen as non-homegrown, even if that means they came through an academy at a Welsh or Irish club. Matt Doherty, Ben Davies and Rodon do not qualify as homegrown in European competition for this reason.
In UEFA competition, clubs also submit a B list for those born on or after the 1st January 2001 and registered at the club for an uninterrupted period of two seasons. Gil and Sarr are young enough to be included on the B list but unfortunately for Tottenham they haven't been at the club for an uninterrupted period of two seasons, meaning they will instead have to be named on the non-homegrown player list.
With Doherty, Davies, Rodon, Gil and Sarr on the non-homegrown player list for the Champions League, as well as the addition of Richarlison, Perisic and Bissouma, Spurs are at a total of 22 in that section and five over the limit of 17. The fact that Doherty, Davies and Rodon are not considered homegrown players does mean that Spurs will need to keep an eye on the situation as there are four spots for 'club trained' players and four for 'association trained' players.
Brandon Austin, Japhet Tanganga, Winks, Skipp and Harry Kane are considered the former, with Sessegnon, Clarke and Forster the latter.
Champions League non-homegrown players - Hugo Lloris, Matt Doherty, Emerson Royal, Eric Dier, Cristian Romero, Ben Davies, Davinson Sanchez, Joe Rodon, Sergio Reguilon, Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg, Rodrigo Bentancur, Yves Bissouma, Giovani Lo Celso, Tanguy Ndombele, Pape Matar Sarr, Ivan Perisic, Dejan Kulusevski, Bryan Gil, Steven Bergwijn, Lucas Moura, Son Heung-min, Richarlison. (22 - five over the limit)
Champions League homegrown players - Fraser Forster, Brandon Austin, Japhet Tanganga, Ryan Sessegnon, Oliver Skipp, Harry Winks, Jack Clarke, Harry Kane. (8)
B list - Harvey White, Dane Scarlett, Troy Parrott.
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