Ironically in the past decade,it has been the English league being schooled by the Spanish,Italians,et al.
I mean that a foreign ideology has invaded the English game. Arsene Wenger started this sharp change decades ago,eventhough Alex Ferguson had already begun it somewhat.
Then we had the Mourinhos,Contes,Peps, Klopps. Today, even a Brighton with it's possesion based game,plays as if,it belongs to the Spanish league. A revolution has taken place in the style of the English game,which has also rubbed off on their national team. One thing they didn't let go of,is their good old physicality.
As for Pep,may we not start here. Forget what he says to the press,he needs the Champions league badly and that is the chief reason City got him.
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If I think about it, you are comnpletely right! I wonder how this development happend. Probably because there is the most money in the Prem.
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Well yeah,having the most money played a role,but overall more and more clubs began to see that the difference is clear. These top-rate foreign coaches brought a new flavour and higher levels of play,that English coaches of the old stock couldn't challenge them much.
So one by one, big clubs began to go for their own top-rate foreign coaches and even smaller clubs also went for same or at least(for want of spending power) coaches who may be English but have this new coaching mindset ingrained in them.
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