lure of the Premier League means English managers
will remain a minority.
Southampton's Dutch manager Ronald Koeman believes English
managers will remain in the minority in the Premier League.
Koeman will go head-to-head with rising star Eddie Howe - one
of just five English coaches in the top flight - when Southampton
meet AFC Bournemouth at St Mary's Stadium on Sunday.
Sam Allardyce (Sunderland), Alan Pardew (Crystal Palace),
Steve McClaren (Newcastle United) and Garry Monk (Swansea
City) are the other Englishman working in the Premier League.
Former Feyenoord boss Koeman revealed the lure of the
Premier League was too much for him to turn down and has
defended his appointment on the south-coast.
"I think it's always important to have some foreign managers
here because maybe they will bring some new ideas into the
game," he said.
"It's also important to protect the English managers, but in the
end it's up to the club to make that decision.
He continued: "Maybe it's because there's a European influence
in the Premier League, for players and for managers. In my
situation it was because of a lot of attention to the Premier
League and the FA Cup final when I was a young kid.
"There is always spirit and intensity in the games, and that
makes it nice to watch English football. There are also big clubs
and that was the reason I was interested to be a manager for an
English club team.
"Maybe he [Howe] is one of the future managers because I
understand he is still young, and he is doing a great job,
managing a club and bringing them to the Premier League was
an amazing result for them
"But like everywhere it's up to the chairmen of the clubs, to the
owners of the club, what they think."
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