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Originally Posted by Tarryn

All of our players play in the PL & have no clue what football is like on the continent.
Look how Bale has developed while playing in Spain. No coincidence that Wales are really benefiting from this.
We need an England manager with the gut's to tell the players some home truths including leaving England to experience playing in the rest of Europe.
We have men in suits who know NOTHING about football deciding the next manager.
Roy was a Yes-Man with the F.A. We should take players on form not reputation to a tournament.

Yep, and spurs Eric Dier was a youth product at Portuguese Sporting Lisbon de Portugal and boy does it show, he is so easy on the ball, great weight and range of passes and intelligent positioning. I remember he said in an interview, in a Portugal academy, the coaches at sidelines don't help the kids too much, so the kids learn intelligent decision making, positioning, leadership and creativity.

The thing is English players won't play abroad as the can't speak anything other than English (and even that's questionable).Lukaku speaks 5 languages. Plus the EPL is too lucrative, so why would a pampered player move to France (unless it's PSG) .