5 Ligue 1 players targeted by Premier League clubs

France – The home of the Eifel Tower, fine wine and football. French players have been a huge part of English football for a number of years now, from the Arsene Wenger days when almost his entire squad wore a beret and cycled to training with a ring of garlic around their necks, to Alain Pardeux assembling his squad with the biggest, meanest Frenchmen that there is.

The France national side also remain one of the strongest on the planet, despite a few years of mayhem, and have given us some of the greatest players ever to play the game. Thierry Henry of Arsenal, David Ginola of Newcastle, Spurs, Aston Villa and Everton, and… David Bellion of Manchester United *cough* to name a few.

Watch this 15 minute story on the Gunners legend Thierry Henry and tell me that the French lack va va voom…

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