Arsenal’s current team has some exciting English players, but there are also many imports as well.
This blend of homegrown talents and foreign players has made the Gunners an even stronger team to face and this is not the first time the team has had many impressive foreign imports.
The last team to win the Premier League for the club had several imported players and even the sides before that time contained others.
The Sun has now named the combined XI of the best foreigners Arsenal has had in its history.
However, no member of Mikel Arteta’s side made the cut, with Jens Lehmann, David O’Leary, Laurent Koscielny, Gael Clichy, Bacary Sagna, Patrick Vieira, Liam Brady, Robert Pires, Marc Overmars, Dennis Bergkamp, and Thierry Henry, making up an interesting lineup.
Just Arsenal Opinion
This lineup is understandably missing most of the current stars, considering most of them haven’t exactly won anything yet.
We have had a great season and could win the league if we work hard enough to stay atop the league table.
If we consistently achieve success and win a few league crowns, when this list is being made in five years, some of the current squad members may feature.
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For me none of the current players will make my Arsenal best eleven. Lehmann
Lauren
Adams
Campbell
Ashley cole
Brady
Gilberto
Vieira
Pires
Bergkamp
Henry.
Glad I’m not only one that rated Lauren!
The current team can’t really be put in historical teams until they finish their careers with us I guess. That said if we do win the league this year still an if even if slight favourites the we will likely do it with more points than the invincibles in a clearly tougher league so at the point some players of the current squad would have to enter the conversation surely?
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Liam Brady always crops up in best ever Arsenal elevens and i for one disagree I saw every Brady hime game from 1976- until when he left He looked good in a very poor Arsenal side in his early years and had two really good seasoms 1977/78 & 1978/79 his final seasom was average and his mind made up he, was leaving and cost Arsenal The Cup Winners Cup in 1980 if his penalty was scored there, would never have been need for Rix who was always going to miss to take one Yes Brady was a very good player but not worthy of a place in a best ever Arsenal eleven
Stuart, I,d say your post proves the truth of that old saying, “there is always one”!
Unbelievable JF, Brady was one of the greatest players I’ve ever seen play for us.
A lot of those players were in the Invincibles team, so it’s hard to argue against dislodging them.
IMO, Koscielny, Sagna and in particular Calamity Clichy, would be nowhere near even my third best team of Arsenal imports.
CALAMITY WOULD NOT BE IN ANY OF MY TEAMS WHATSOEVER .
I thought he was a sad joke of a player, beyond useless defensively and a constant mistake on legs. Other than these three way overhyped players, I liked the selection.
Calamity Clichy went on to win the league more than once playing regularly and we were hardly terrible when he was playing for us. Don’t think he is the best import in that position but he was never a calamity.
Lehman
Lauren O’Leary Toure Clichy
Gilberto
Vieira Bergkamp
Brady Henry Pires
Changed my mind on Clichy just.
For the obvious taking in coming years
Zinchenko LB
Saliba CB
Martinelli LW
Very possible but tough to dislodge
Odegaard CAM
Possible if we have insane success next couple of years as well as winning the title
Partey DM
Wouldn’t count out the likes of Gabriel in particular, Tomiyasu or even Vieira from the young imports who are getting game time of ending up in this team when all is said and done.
Jesus really doesn’t have the time to displace Henry.
Xhaka as instrumental as he has been is not displacing Bergkamp/Vieira. Still could write himself into Arsenal history.
Clichy was decent, but Silvinho was far far better
Originally I thought it was between Sylvinho or Van Bronckhorst. Warmed to Clichy overall in the end after I thought about it even though it wasn’t my original opinion.
Fair enough – silvinho wasn’t here that long I suppose.
Mad Jens
Lauren
O’Leary
McClintock
Nelson
Gilberto
Vieira
Brady
Pires
Bergkamp
Henry
Northern Irish and Scottish don’t count as foreign? I assume that’s why some were left out and the list contains only relatively recent players aside from o’leary
Well seeing as they couldn’t play for England then in my book they are foreign.
Anelka was fantastic but short lived and I loved the Vieira-Petit partnership but Pires was awesome too. Herr Drier and Angus mentioned Gilberto.