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Howe, for example, is doing a really good job. He has the chance to build at Bournemouth and everybody can see the direction he is going in.
“Maybe he will get to a point where he hits the glass ceiling. I had that at Everton, where we were always finishing fifth, sixth, seventh every year and we couldn’t break higher.
“Eddie might reach that stage but it will be much harder to step into the big jobs because they can choose from all over the world.
“It is a difficult situation for young
British managers.
There are a lot of really good ones out there trying to learn and finding the route forward blocked.
“Perhaps one answer is to export more British managers into the big leagues in Europe. It would so enhance our football. Young English players like Jadon Sancho are going abroad and doing well.
“I think managers doing the same would be a big plus. I learned a lot from my spell at Real Sociedad.”
The contemporary manager Moyes most admires is
Pep Guardiola, a rival he encountered with three different clubs –United, Sunderland and West Ham. “Pep does the job so well,” says Moyes. “I look at Manchester City and see his players do all the basics. Things change in the game but the fundamentals remain.
“Players have to run. You can talk about tactics and how you play, but if you don’t run you are not going to be any good. “I remember being struck by
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something Pep told me. He said that if his players don’t run they don’t play. I believe that.
“Discipline is really important as well. The manager has to be the person at the top. I think Pep shows that, along with a love for his players. Jurgen Klopp does so too.
“I couldn’t imagine a player at Manchester City going above Pep’s head to the chief executive to moan. I couldn’t see it happening at Liverpool now. That’s how it should be.
“But there are clubs now where the owners or CEO are the point of contact for the players.
And that completely disrupts the whole football club. I admire Pep. He has got great players but keeps them hungry.”
Twenty years as a football manager means a mountain of joy and misery.
Many of the best memories for Moyes are from his time at Everton, of which he says: “Building up Everton with very little financial clout is something I look back on with happiness.
“It’s about creating teams and helping players. There was as much pleasure seeing Leon Osman get an England cap at the age of 30 as with Wayne Rooney when he was a teenager.
“The ultimate high was to be offered the Manchester United job. That doesn’t happen unless you have done something well.
“The biggest disappointment was not getting enough time there because I knew we could get through a difficult period. I believe I could have changed the squad around and prospered.
“It still rankles now because I felt I was suited for it. I didn’t think it was in Manchester United’s DNA to change a manager so quickly.
“But it’s another example of how the game has changed over the last 20 years.
“There is little time now. You have to get quick wins or that’s it. Having a long-term vision at a football club isn’t possible.”
What is his vision of the game’s future? “I think there is room now for a Premier League Two and I can see it happening soon,” says Moyes.
“It would allow a better spread of money in the game, especially with so many really big clubs in the Championship, like Leeds and Aston Villa. It would mean there isn’t the current vast gap in finance.
“A PL2 might help more young English players to develop and more young British managers to have opportunities. “I have always hoped, too, that one day top Scottish clubs like Celtic and Rangers would be invited into the Premier League. I think that would be great.”
His own future is waiting on others. “Yes, I am mad keen to come back,” he says. “If the right job opportunity comes up I will take it.” BRIGHTON’S Brazilian defender Bernardo says he has suffered racist abuse – but only in his own country.
Since moving to Austria in 2016 and then to Germany before his £9million switch to England, Bernardo says life has been good.
He was speaking at the end of a week in which racism reared its ugly head once more, with an alleged verbal attack on Raheem Sterling at Chelsea.
Bernardo’s Seagulls face the Blues today but the 23-year-old has no issues with English fans.
He said: “I came across more prejudice in Brazil but not in Austria, Germany and England.”