Pulis, Hughes, Holloway, Warnock etc have premier league experience but I wouldn't want any of them. Ancelotti did a good job at Chelsea (but he had the players) but is struggling, though, to do anything notable at Everton and look at how much money Pellegrini wasted at West Ham despite having done a job at Citeh.

Nuno had no PL experience before Wolves, nor Pochettino before Southampton, but of course, these (plus Jose, Ancelotti, Conte etc.) are foreign managers and so they're automatically better in many people's eyes.

Cooper's appeal for me is:
1) firstly, that he's worked well with England's best young players,
2) secondly, he has been doing a good job at Swansea. 3) Thirdly, he's not had oodles of dosh for transfers
4) Fourthly, having coached the England U17s to a world cup win will be well placed to identify which of our Academy players should be prepared for stepping up to the first team squad.
5) Finally, he will see Palace as his big opportunity to show what he can do at PL level.

It's Zidane you heard it hear first.

Wolves were immediately linked with Bruno Lage. While I appreciate that there is the Portuguese connection, there's nothing to say that we're not looking at overseas managers. We only know the managers we know, hence the few names being touted around. Would like to think that CPFC's net stretches wider than those.

I agree, there are indeed some very good coaches abroad. I suspect if we were in the Championship, we would go down this route. The last 3 Barnsley managers ( I believe) have been recruited from abroad
, 2 have moved on to bigger jobs, the 3rd is in situ, for now.