I wonder if they have these debates in other countries - e.g. are fans in Bulgaria saying their team should only sign Bulgarian players because the Bulgarian league is so unique that foreigners wouldn't be able to adapt to it?
There's nothing unique about Scottish football in reality beyond the prevalence of slightly outdated tactics and coaching. We seem to want to champion negative traits like teams frantically hoofing the ball up the park constantly as some kind of unique style of football when they're actually just a symptom of us being bad at it.
Last season we signed Scott Brown, David Bates, Declan Gallagher, JET, Matty Longstaff, Teddy Jenks, Adam Montgomery, Gary Woods, Austin Samuels and Markey Watkins. All of them failed to adapt to our style of play in this country, the climate, and the language.
Maybe we shouldn't sign anyone, too much of a risk.
Seeing as we have had 2 local loons jump ship to Mordor in recent years, with none of our foreign signings lowering themselves to such an act since Theo Snelders (and even then he was more or less forced out) I think it’s fair to say we’re better off having players from the Balkans than Balmedie.