BBC sport best overseas player

Sheikh Rattle n Roll said:
Apparently all the foreign players only came to England because of Eric Cantona. I am so pleased I watched the program last night whilst making tea because I never knew that fact....... would love to see where any player who joined City from abroad says, 'I joined City because of Eric Cantona'
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tbh I thought Klinsmann was the catalyst for foreigners coming over into the Premier league. Sounds like they're rewriting history there.
 
Sheikh Rattle n Roll said:
Personally I would go back further in time to another German!!!
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Absolutely.. Trautmann was a huge star, inspired people from all walks of life, not just in football, plus a whole generation of would-be goalkeepers, including Bob Wilson and (the greatest of them all) Gordon Banks..
 
Gorton_Tubster said:
tbh I thought Klinsmann was the catalyst for foreigners coming over into the Premier league. Sounds like they're rewriting history there.
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You can go back further than that if you like. I remember Mühren and Thijssen coming over to join Ipswich Town at the end of the seventies. That created quite a stir at the time. Thijssen was even voted Player of the Year. Now I'm not defending Cantona (or attacking him for that matter, I can't be bothered), but it does rather look as though what had been a trickle up to then became more of a flood. It's obviously simplistic to say it was “because of Cantona”. It was more to do with the times, the money coming into the English game and, I presume, more relaxed regulations about EU sportsmen plying their trade in the UK.
 
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