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[on Terry Venables] He has a wealth of experience and knowledge. He knows the world of football inside out.

[in 2016] None of the foreign coaches are trained or equipped any better than we are but unless we get the opportunity to get interviewed, which is rare now, particularly for young managers, a manager getting into the Premier League now that is English or British would have to do it via getting promoted through the Championship. Everyone is talking about Eddie Howe at the moment and rightly so, but the only way he got to the Premier League was via Bournemouth, nobody went and plucked him out. The challenge of the foreign managers made us better over the years, there is no doubt about that, but the way it is going I can see no English manager in the Premier League and that could be very shortly as well.