Originally Posted by totalfootball
The manager is indeed limited by the players available to him. This could get worse if many of our young players are forced to settle for sitting on the bench or playing in the Championship or League One. I have long wished that more of our players would try playing on the continent, but somehow I can't see them having enough imagination to try it out. If say, instead of playing in the Championship, they were playing in Holland or Belgium or Portugual, they might actually have a chance of playing in the Champions League or UEFA cup. I feel they could learn a lot more about football by doing that, but maybe the money is not as good. Also, you'd have to learn a foreign language, which many English speakers refuse to do.
