Club most associated with a foreign nation.

Catania has 12 Argentine players in their current squad alone, let alone history

Also, FC Ramos is most associated with Brazil

@mt Van Nistelrooy as well

GoonerJay29 wrote:

Over the last 20 years i can confidently claim we have had more....

Genuinely curious here, because our list quite extensive:

Gilles Grimandi
Patrick Vieira
Emmanuel Petit
Nicolas Anelka
Thierry Henry
Robert Pires
Sylvain Wiltord
Jeremie Aliadiere
Pascal Cygan
Gael Clichy
Mathieu Flamini
Lassana Diarra
Cedric Evina
Gilles Sunu
Francis Coquelin
Abou Diaby
Bacary Sagna
William Gallas
Samir Nasri
Laurent Koscielny
Sebastien Squillaci
Olivier Giroud

22 Frenchman since 1996.

Marveaux
Ba ( French Born)
Cabaye
Ben Arfa
Debuchy ( brink of signing)
Abeid
Obertan
Amalfitano
Ginola
Robert
Bernard
N'Zogbia
Boumsong
Bassong( French Born)
Charvet
Distin
Domi
Diatta
Gui'varch
Pancrate
Saha
Sibierski
Terrier

Those are the one's i can think of at this time, that have played for the first team and they are all since 96.

And we didn't need a french manager to do it

I won't argue the clubs already mentioned are much more associated with a particular country, BUT I can say Arsenal have a fair number of French players over the years... maybe has something to do with the manager? lol...

We have had shed loads of Irish players at Sunderland, at one point we had like 90% of the national team here.

Shame the majority of them were crap

Phil Babb

Wasn't he one of the reason u got relegated ?

One of them

He really was terrible though, very similar to Heskey. Except he couldn't kick the ball. Would always try and header it before kicking it.

The ball could be rolling towards him on the ground and he would dive down and try head it to make a clearence.

Weirdly enough though we did have a class FA cup run with him in the side and got to the semis.

Welcome to Donetsk; The f'n cold Brazil

Fernandinho
Willian
Alex Teixeira
Luiz Adriano
Douglas Costa
Dentinho
Ilsinho
Alan Patrick
Eduardo (born in Brazil)

That's nine born in Brazil in our current squad, Maicon Oliveira will make it ten in January (expiring contract).

Countless others have come and gone in the past decade.

Kick wrote:Arsenal and their French boys.

Athletic Bilbao sure do like Spainards

lol, basque rule?

Bayern = Germany.



There are no rules on this one

we also had alot of brazillans

Barcelona and Dutch players. Michels came in first, changed the model, Cruyff came in again, introduced ducth philosophy and dutch youth system schemes. Van Gaal had so many dutch players that some of the catalan players complained to Laudrup saying it feels like a foreing club. (laudrup went to visit his old friends and asked btw). Dutch model, dutch innovation, ducth football. Dutch people called themsleves foreign catalans as a sign of affection.

The Messiah wrote:Bayern = Germany.



There are no rules on this one

BRB most of my Bayern mates dont consider themselves German
BRB glory supporter
BRB Bavarian club not German

BRB
BRB
BRB

Inter and their Argentine collection!

BhritanniaBhlue wrote:This is since 2005

Argentina: 14

Zanetti
Alvarez
Milito
Palacio
Cambiasso
Samuel
Silvestre
Burdisso
Crespo
Cruz
Solari
M. Gonzalez
K. Gonzalez
Veron

Brazil: 13

Cesar
Maicon
Coutinho
Juan
Johnathan
Lucio
Kerlon
Mancini
Motta
Adriano
Maxwell
Cesar (MF)
Siquiera

Forgot Zarate?

Juventus has a good history of Balkan players having represented the club.

Croatia
-Alen Boksic
-Igor Tudor
-Robert Kovac
-Zoran Ban
-Robert Jarni
-Dario Knezevic

Serbia
-Vladimir Jugovic
-Milos Krasic
-Darko Kovacevic
-Zoran Mirkovic

Hasan Salihamidzic(Bosnia & Herzegovina),Mirko Vucinic(Montenegro)..

Hopefully Jovetic would be added to the list soon

CBarca wrote:As pointed out just once, when I think of Barca, I do remember on that Dutch generation. We've had a fair few amount of Netherlands players come here. Not too many in the recent years though.

Inter has a thing with Argentinians don't they?

I do remember the dutchees. I became a barca fan in 1999 (when I was about 9) thanks to fifa when the era was in full swing.

People think I am serious about Bilbao

Chelsea are gaining a lot of brazillians but haven't really had any country dominate the team list.

Luiz
Ramires
Piazon
and maybe
Maicon
Hulk
Oscar
Previous:
Deco
Alex
Minerio (sp?)

Surag wrote:Juventus has a good history of Balkan players having represented the club.

Croatia
-Alen Boksic
-Igor Tudor
-Robert Kovac
-Zoran Ban
-Robert Jarni
-Dario Knezevic

Serbia
-Vladimir Jugovic
-Milos Krasic
-Darko Kovacevic
-Zoran Mirkovic

Hasan Salihamidzic(Bosnia & Herzegovina),Mirko Vucinic(Montenegro)..

Hopefully Jovetic would be added to the list soon

French players too..

-Michel Platini
-Zinedine Zidane
-Lilian Thuram
-Didier Deschamps
-David Trezeguet
-Jonathan Zebina
-Patrick Viera
-Olivier Kapo*
-Thierry Henry*
-Paul Pogba(new Juventus player)

(*Turned out to be largely flops though)

Milan/Brazil/Holland
Inter/Argentina/Germany
Juve/Italy/France

Kick wrote:People think I am serious about Bilbao

Chelsea are gaining a lot of brazillians but haven't really had any country dominate the team list.

Luiz
Ramires
Piazon
and maybe
Maicon
Hulk
Oscar
Previous:
Deco
Alex
Minerio (sp?)

Deco is Portugese.

7amood11 wrote:

Kick wrote:People think I am serious about Bilbao

Chelsea are gaining a lot of brazillians but haven't really had any country dominate the team list.

Luiz
Ramires
Piazon
and maybe
Maicon
Hulk
Oscar
Previous:
Deco
Alex
Minerio (sp?)

Deco is Portugese.

He is born in Brazil and raised in Brazil and only moved to Portugal when he was 19. He may not play for Brazil but he is Brazilian.