PL players you'd have liked to have seen at EFC (leaving out the obvious)...

[maccavennie]

Bergkamp
Giggs
Keane
Ian Wright
Les Ferdinand
Gareth Bale
Modric
Hazard
Drogba
Sheringham

And Bergkamp again for good measure.

 

[skucksy]

Players that may have been realistic targets.
Paolo Di Canio
Benito Carbone
Gus Poyet
JJ Okocha

Came here to say Jay Jay Okocha. Don’t see many like him these days.

He was at PSG with Ronaldinho who said he learned from him. Thought that was a bit mad!

 

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

Cantona. What a player.

 

[Zatara]

Adam Aznou
Tyler Dibling.

Dibling

No one is beating these.

Not a soul.

 

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

Non obvious, I always liked Darren Huckerby. Just went on mental runs with no end product.

 

[ArtetaMagic]

Henry
Cantona
Modric

 

[Lapeno77]

Steven Gerrard. Wouldn't have slipped if he played for his boyhood club

 

[leslad]

Non obvious, I always liked Darren Huckerby. Just went on mental runs with no end product.

Was thinking Huckerby. Couldn't half shift

 

[Gwladys St. Glory]

David Batty
Carlos Tevez
Santi Cazorla
Dimitar Berbatov
Mark Viduka
Ugo Ehiogu
(Pre-internet) Matt Le Tissier

Yes, please.

 

[leslad]

Yes, please.

Still playing this year in La Liga! Helped bring his club Oviedo back from the brink to promotion if I remember correctly

 

[windymiller]

Bergkamp and Faustino Asprilla, I loved watching those two play. I fear the days of maverick forwards are over. Apart from Barry, obvs.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Henrik Larsson

 

[Willie Thorne]

JayJay Okocha, Djorkaeff, Anelka...but no, they went to Bolton.

 

[Street end man]

Vardy
Zlatan
Kompany
Fernandez ( a snide like that would be lovely in a polite team like ours)
Aguero
and finally Garry Sprake

 

[Rehnman]

Ian Wright
Les Ferdinand
Di Canio
Kinkladze
Poyet

Ian Wright’s a good one. I think we almost signed him in about 1989 or 90, but he broke his leg. I can’t remember who we signed instead - maybe someone like Mike Newell? Have just looked up and from that moment Wright went on to score more than two hundred top flight goals over the next ten years averaging over twenty a season. Would’ve changed those years for us just a bit!