Glenn Murray is a player for Brighton who I must admit I haven’t seen play but he made a statement recently about domestic talent.

By that he meant British players, who he said are more in the Championship than the Premier League.

His point was that in his experience a lot of these players would be comfortable playing in the Premier League but he thinks clubs are no longer looking at that level and are happier to scout abroad.

As a result the majority of players in the Premier League now are from countries other than Great Britain.

When Graham Taylor and I were together with England we would sit each week and look at the fixtures coming up and decide which games we should go to.

Last week Chelsea played Arsenal. Undoubtedly one of us would have gone there.

There was no point in Gareth Southgate going though as of the 22 players on the pitch there was one British. Of the 14 subs there were two more.

That basically sums up the situation when it comes to the national team in particular.

Looking back, I think with supporters and media realising these things more now much praise was given to the England team not just for getting as far as they did in the World Cup but even for getting through the opening stages.

Less than 25 per cent of the players in the Premier League are English now and they are not all necessarily of international quality.

That makes the England manager’s job all the more difficult.

To prove the point if you look at the goalscorers in all of the top flight games last weekend it was very hard to spot anybody who came from the British Isles.

I am not saying that the foreign stars aren’t good players. Of course, some of them are quite brilliant.

But the attitude speaking to fellow coaches and managers seems to be completely different to the old days.

There are no Mick Channon’s or Matt Le Tissier’s around who are happy to stay at one club for most of their career.

They very rarely expect to stay longer than their original contract, they are happy to pick up the money and move on, either to a better club or to get back home.

We talk regularly amongst the oldies about the passion that some of the senior players had at one time where they would gee up and help, or even criticise if needed, the younger players in the dressing room and on the pitch for the benefit of the team and the club.

But coaches nowadays have so many different personalities, nationalities and languages to overcome it is more of a question of getting as much naturally gifted talented on the pitch hoping that on any given day an individual can come up with something outstanding.

That is as opposed to the days when unity helped and not always the most naturally gifted player would be man of the match because of his effort and teamwork.

Talking of foreign imports, we have to look at the coaches, as I call them, and not managers as in the old days.

I know for a fact most of them just expect to coach the first team, that is what they are brought in for, and they leave the rest of the club to others.

Today we have an example with Mr Claude Puel, whose first visit to work at a club in this country was at St Mary’s.

I can understand him being hurt when he was moved on because the results on paper, eighth top and a visit to Wembley, were what any board of a club like ours would have certainly accepted in the interview before he got the job.

Whatever reasons were given for him leaving he was determined as most professionals would be to prove people wrong, which of course he did up to a point in his last visit where Leicester won comfortably.

The difference he will find this time is that people remember and the man in charge now has a different attitude and is more of a manager type. He himself has a lot to prove as well and will, I’m sure, make the job more difficult and hopefully with three points added to our total so far.