Sadio Mane will leave Liverpool as one of the greatest African players in Premier League history. Jay-Jay Okocha misses out on the top ten.
10) Wilfried Zaha
Sir Alex Ferguson’s last signing is Crystal Palace’s best. Wilfried Zaha’s future frustrations have been played out on the most public stage possible but when he looks back on his career, the 29-year-old might be thankful that Selhurst Park was far more difficult to leave the second time around. The greater chance of personal and team success he could have had at Arsenal, Tottenham or any of the numerous other clubs linked over the last half-decade is outweighed by his icon status and historic exploits in south-east London.
Zaha has a healthy 26-goal lead as Crystal Palace’s all-time top Premier League scorer, with more strikes in the top flight than David Silva, Marcus Rashford and Gianfranco Zola. The club’s longest stint in England’s highest division has been fuelled sometimes exclusively by his excellence. His last two seasons have both represented a career-best in terms of goals as the Ivorian is starting to benefit from actually having a team built around him as opposed to underneath him. And no player angers opposition fans quite so effectively.
9) Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
It was brief but beautiful. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang came to the Premier League in January 2018 and left in February 2022. He won one Golden Boot, single-handedly settled an FA Cup semi-final and final, became only the 14th player to have consecutive 20-goal seasons in the top flight and ranks 13th for ratio of minutes per goal (152). He is one of just 10 players ever with 50 or more Premier League goals at a rate of more than 0.5 per appearance. Across four years with Arsenal, he scored against every single team he faced in English competition bar one: Sheffield United.
He might well have been one of the last honest representations of a dying breed. A box-centric centre-forward and counter-attacking cheat code,…
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