Tony Mowbray is delighted to see so many young managers in the Championship, and although he knows they'll all have their own ideas of how the game should be played, he has one simple bit of advice: Don't forget the importance of emotion and heart.

In Sunderland's last three league fixtures, Mowbray has come up against opposition bosses who are relatively new to the management game and have been handed jobs in the Championship for the first time.

John Eustace was a respected coach and briefly managed Kidderminster but Birmingham is his first full-time role at Championship level, Mark Hudson's only experience as a manager was during a brief caretaker stint at Huddersfield before he was named interim boss of Cardiff City and Scot Mark Fotheringham had served as a coach in Germany before being named boss of the Terriers earlier this season.

Meanwhile, at Mowbray's former club Middlesbrough, Michael Carrick is another starting out as a head coach having replaced Chris Wilder in the dugout last month.

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"There's a whole generation of young football coaches breaking through in this country," said Sunderland boss Mowbray.

"I think Guardiola and Klopp have created a new generation of coaches. I don't think you can follow or replicate those two but you can take their ideas.

"I think they are generational coaches that people will look back on and think they had an impact.

"You could argue that every country Guardiola goes to, the nation seems to win a major tournament. When he was at Barcelona Spain were winning World Cups, when he went to Germany Germany won a World Cup, let's hope England win a World Cup.

"And I think Klopp deserves to be on that pedestal because of what Liverpool have achieved over the last six or seven years.

"I think it's great to be a football coach in this era and I wish all young coaches well."

When Sunderland came up against Huddersfield earlier this month, Town chief Fotheringham told Mowbray how the Sunderland boss had influenced his career.

Mowbray said: "We were talking after the game and he said it was an honour to be in the same room because he'd sat and watched our Hibs team play in 2004 and thought 'wow, what a team'. We could go and beat Celtic and Rangers in 2004 and 2005 and he was there watching.

"If we helped inspire that, I would never put myself in the category of inspiring like the managers I've just talked about, but he was talking about the football he'd watched one of my teams play a long time ago, and there he is managing in the Championship now full of enthusiasm and drive. I wish him well."

Mowbray added: "All the young coaches coming through with their ideas and positional play, if I was going to be giving anyone any advice, it's don't ever forget to play with your emotions and heart. However tactical or positional, you need to remember football is about emotion and passion, that's what connects the team with the support base and you should never forget that."

Sunderland's players are off this week before they fly out to Dubai for a week-long training camp on Sunday.

The club yesterday confirmed a friendly against Saudi league leaders Al-Shabab during the trip. The game will be played on Friday, November 25 (1pm UK time) at Jebel Ali Centre of Excellence.

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