“When he was CEO at Motherwell, Pat Nevin had three future Premier League managers in his team: Owen Coyle, Billy Davies and Roberto Martínez,” tweets Stephen Kelly. “What is the greatest number of future Premier League managers in one dressing-room?”
Let’s start in an unlikely place: Genoa. The Sampdoria squad of 1985-86 had four future Premier League managers in Trevor Francis, Graeme Souness, Gianluca Vialli and Roberto Mancini. Crystal Palace had the same number at the start of the 1994-95 season: Gareth Southgate, Iain Dowie, Chris Coleman – and Ray Wilkins, who left the club to become QPR manager in November 1994.
