The British players that have excelled outside out the UK.
For such an international sport it is still something of a strange occurrence to see British footballers succeeding outside of the nation.
Yet with Welshman Gareth Bale being the most expensive player of all time at £85.3m and currently impressing at Real Madrid, fanatix takes a look back in history to see the best Brits playing abroad.
10. Glenn Hoddle – AS Monaco
Under the guidance of Arsene Wenger – a manager Hoddle would come to blows with in the north London derby – the Englishman was one of the first to succeed abroad.
The classy midfielder left Tottenham Hotspur to try and utilise his continental style in France and won a Ligue 1 title and made it to the quarter-finals of the European Cup, before a knee injury ended his time in the Principality.
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