Juventus manager Claudio Ranieri believes that the English side's dominance of this season's UEFA Champions League is down to the foreign players.
The Italian saw his side crash out of this season's competition at the last-16 stage with a 3-2 aggregate defeat against former side Chelsea.
The Premier League again dominates the latter stages of Europe's premier competition with Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester United all making the semi-finals.
But Ranieri is quick to point out that despite having three English teams in the last four there will be a distinct lack of English players in the matches.
"There may be three English teams in the Champions League semi-finals but there are hardly any English players in them," he told the Daily Star.
"The English clubs' success is based almost entirely on foreign players.
"England even need an Italian coach to run the national team."
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