The standard of British bosses remains strong despite the influx of foreign managers, according to League Managers Association chief executive Richard Bevan.
A Press Association Sport study into the nationality of Premier League managers at the start of each season from 1997-98 to 2017-18 revealed a 55 per cent drop in UK and Irish bosses.
Eight of the current top-flight permanent managers are British or Irish, with Sean Dyche having taken Burnley to seventh, but this season started with the joint lowest total of English bosses (four) in the last two decades.
The last manager from the UK or Ireland to finish in the top four was Brendan Rodgers with Liverpool (second in 2013-14) but Bevan believes the quality in home-grown talent remains.