The Premier League plays host to fantastic footballers from a plethora of different countries – today, we’ll be looking at the five best players in England’s top flight who hail from France.

In recent years, we’ve seen the likes of Paul Pogba for Manchester United, Dimitri Payet for West Ham and Allan Saint-Maximin for Newcastle United playing in the Premier League.

Over the years, we’ve had some truly legendary French players grace the Premier League – Thierry Henry, Patrick Vieira, Eric Cantona, Robert Pires, Marcel Desailly, Louis Saha and Claude Makelele, to name a small number of them.

Can the players on this list hold a candle to these legends of French football? Let’s take a look.