Actually, this made me think about works permits/GBE's and signing non British/Irish players going forward. We (and other non PL clubs) will be limited to signing players from a certain number of leagues. No much chance of picking up players from non top flight/Band 1 foreign leagues in my opinion.
As an exercise, I checked how many points one our most recent signing from the German second division (a band 4 league) would have got.
As far as I can tell, Julian Borner would have got 10 points, and you need 15 points to be granted a GBE, basically he would not have been able to sign.
Syalla Sow, on the other hand, coming from a Band 1 league, gets 19 points, easily enough for a GBE.
I can show my working if required 🙂