Currently, these players can work in the United Kingdom without a work permit, however, new players will not have an automatic right to work in the country.
"It was a shock result. There are four players that we can reflect on and the impact they had on their clubs last year, who may not have been able to come in… I wonder how attractive the Premier League would have been and how well those clubs would have done without those specific players, and that's the kind of thing we are now speculating about," an investment banker, who helped oversee the sale of numerous British football clubs, Keith Harris, was quoted as saying in the news report.
On Thursday, the United Kingdom held a referendum to determine whether or not the country should leave the European Union. According to the final results, 51.9 percent of voters, or 17.4 million people, decided to support Brexit, while about 16.1 million opposed it.
