AllWhitebeliever
25 Nov 2007, 12:31 AM
I know there is plenty of talk of the lack of English players at the top end of the EPL as well as managers.
It seems that it would be silly to suggest that many of the EPL english player have not been exposed to non-english mangers and hence would not be capable following a non-english national coach with the same vigour. However it may then come down to development that is directed to players before they get to higher honours, that is where they are mainly expose to english coaching at an earlier stage of their football development.
The english managers also have an uphill battle to get to the top of the EPL with the number of high quality non-english manager that are brought in to the clubs for quick and sharp results.
The lack of exposure of quality football within a country may be actually produce english players of sufficient quality in another country's development system as well as english managers.
So do we have players and managers that have tried to make it in an oversea league from the bottom up because it would seem a better chance to be exposed to quality football and management?
Howard Wilkinson was the last English manager to win a English league title in 1992 before the EPL and who knows who was the last English Manager of any of the big four?
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It seems that it would be silly to suggest that many of the EPL english player have not been exposed to non-english mangers and hence would not be capable following a non-english national coach with the same vigour. However it may then come down to development that is directed to players before they get to higher honours, that is where they are mainly expose to english coaching at an earlier stage of their football development.
The english managers also have an uphill battle to get to the top of the EPL with the number of high quality non-english manager that are brought in to the clubs for quick and sharp results.
The lack of exposure of quality football within a country may be actually produce english players of sufficient quality in another country's development system as well as english managers.
So do we have players and managers that have tried to make it in an oversea league from the bottom up because it would seem a better chance to be exposed to quality football and management?
Howard Wilkinson was the last English manager to win a English league title in 1992 before the EPL and who knows who was the last English Manager of any of the big four?
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