I thought that anyone from Europe was exempt a la catalans et al, which as Stosic has a Europeon "relative" then he does not count

He is non federation trained, so he counts on that list although he is off quota.

I think next year a club is allowed 7 non federation trained players with no more than 5 of these being quota players ie non European players.

would it help if we can get him adopted

think they have put a stop to that too after madonna tried to adopt kyle eastmond