Arguably the Premiership's greatest ever import, Gianfranco Zola, has warned that England need to find the balance between the number of foreigners they have in their top flight of they'll continue to suffer at International level.
The former Chelsea legend explained: “In England the teams can buy players to take the level of the league up, but you have to find a balance.
"Bringing in too many foreign players is not always the right thing to do. The best years in Italian football were the end of the 1980s and the start of the 1990s as every year we had finalists in all the European competitions.
“One of the reasons is because we only were allowed three foreigners per team. They were the best in the world and it was a perfect balance because the core of the team was Italian.
“That is a very important thing to look after because that allows the young players to come through, as well as taking the levels up by having a few foreign players.”
He adde: “If you look at the Italian teams through history, the amount of pressure they carry is huge, but it brings the best out of them.
“I have to say that, in attitude, Italian teams could teach many other countries a lot of things, including England. England have talent, stature, the background and history, but I don’t understand why you don’t win with the national team. Sometimes I think that when you play, your players do not give it their best shot. I particularly think that was the case last summer at the World Cup.”