With much of the focus being directed towards the issue of foreign owners taking control of British clubs and how they could have ill intentions in mind, shouldn’t a greater focus be put on those at the managerial helm. In the past few months both Juande Ramos and Luiz Felipe Scolari have lost their jobs in the Premier League, is it a lack of technical awareness or just an ill ability to understand the English game.

The Premier League is observed by many people across the world as the greatest stage to which a player can grace and of late it has been too stern a test for those individuals that have moved from sunnier climates to the grim and grey skies of Britain.

Although there has been much talk in the press about the ill fated managerial tenures of young British bosses like Paul Ince and Tony Adams many foreign bosses that have come to England possessed a distinct pedigree and significant experience behind them.

Former Tottenham boss Juande Ramos had turned around the fortunes of Seville leading them to UEFA Cup success and although he captured the imagination of the Spurs fans by winning the Carling Cup in his first season once the club fell into a slump he did not have what was required to lift them out of it. In stark comparison Harry Redknapp has turned the club around lifting them from the doldrums at the base of the table to a Carling Cup Final by the skin of their teeth. Putting this in job market terms it appears that there is no substitute for experience in your own specialised field, and I believe the Premier League is a field in itself.

Or is it the fact that international bosses do not know how to make it in the Premier League?

One man who made the step look easy was Mark Hughes who in ending his time as manager of the Welsh national team made Blackburn Rovers a force to be reckoned with week in, week out in the Premier League and although he has had a stuttery start since taking over at Manchester City in the summer it appears he is beginning to get his players to gel together as a unit.

While, on the other hand, Luiz Felipe Scolari was a man known for his tactical awareness after masterminding great things with the Portuguese national side and his move to Chelsea was heralded with much aplomb, but after falling seven points behind the leaders and losing to Manchester United and Liverpool already this season the Chelsea board have acted by giving him the chop.

Jacques Santini also went the same way. He arrived at Spurs after creating a glowing reputation for himself in charge of the French national side, but after only 13 games in charge he resigned. I wonder if that was over the task that lay ahead for him as manager over the 38 games.

Are foreign managers just ill equipped to cope in the Premier League because the standard of play and tactically the attention to detail is far higher here than that which exists outside the white cliffs of Dover?

I would be interested to hear people’s view on this topic as to whether British managers are the way forward or should foreign managers still be given the opportunity to shine on these shores?