[mamon]

English Premier League is the best league in the world, so why would any English player want to play elsewhere?

Regarding different playing styles: Premier League has a lot of players and managers from all around the world, so there is no shortage of different playing styles.

I think the real reasons why England has such limited success in football are these:

- having best (and richest) leaque is a mixed blessing: brings a lot of foreign players, taking spots away from native English ones.

- another reason, related to previous: English teams have a lot of money, so they prefer buying players and not training them themselves. Compare that with Spanish teams (Real, Barcelona) which have those big training sites for junior players, and usually half of the senior team line-ups is made of it's alumni. That's why Spain has plenty of world-class players, and England doesn't.

[addicted]

The taking spots away argument doesn’t make any sense. There are 20 clubs in the EPL. That’s 220 starting players. Even if 10% are English, your starting lineups give you enough English players to field an entire team. And those players get to play with the best in the world. Of all the teams, the English players would have the most collective experience playing against the best. More importantly (because players don’t learn how to play during matches, but rather, during training) they would have trained with the best in the world.

That should be an unmitigated advantage.