You need to put a bit more thought into this Red, there are numerous occasions where Foreign international players given the choice between the Northern clubs and Southern clubs have opted for London over Manchester Liverpool, Newcastle etc, United are even quoted as saying that it is harder to sign a player up here than in the capital, it usually costs them more in wages than it would down south, now also consider that the chances are that your man from Borehamwood being young still lives with his family, maybe he wouldn’t want to move away from familiar surroundings, he is in his comfort zone, remember a lot of Southerners think the world ends at Watford. If they are married maybe their wife doesn’t fancy coming up to the frozen wastelands of the North, or she is in a top paid job herself. Also put your forward from down there’s hat on, he has scored x amount of goals so Stockport come in for him, but wait, maybe in 4 months Brentford might be coming in for him, this is without taking into account that most players will be under contract until June so even if we did tempt their club to sell him, he would be costing considerably more than he would in June. Lots of reasons to look at, but it is no coincidence that Northern based Conference teams have a massive majority of Northern players and Southern based teams have southern players.