[Import]ant signings (not NUFC)

Watching the Roma v Fiorentina game and it got me thinking, aside from our own Davide Santon, I can't think of too many Italian imports who've looked really decent recently. But then I thought surely I'm wrong? Surely my memory is just shot to ****...

So...to pass a bit of time and distract us from our actual lives...Pick a country and decide on its greatest ever export, and last great export and one to watch (Premier League ideally):

I'll start off with Italy...

Greatest Ever: Zola
[video=youtube;XG4ATQHt708]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG4ATQHt708[/video]

Last Great: Di Canio
[video=youtube;sGy7peqV1tE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGy7peqV1tE[/video]

One To Watch: Santon
[video=youtube;bs2-nuse67g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs2-nuse67g[/video]

Left out Super Mario, but **** him, he should've signed for us!

 

greatest balotelli for the entertainment factor.

 

Costa Rica - Paulo Wanchope

 

Being serious though, I think Holland's greatest import is Dennis Bergkamp. There has been some class Dutch players in the Prem over the years like Hasselbaink, Van Der Sar, Van Nostrilhair, Van Persie etc. but, Bergkamp was just a genius. He made Arsenal tick and although he wasn't a 30 goals a season striker, he set up loads and was a part of 99% of Arsenal's good play.

 

I agree...Van Persie for the last great import and....Krul for the one to watch?

 

Denmark

All time - Peter Schmeichel/Micheal Laudrup
Last big thing - Jesper Gronkaer
Next big thing - Christian Erikson

 

Holland players to the Premiership.

Greatest ever: Ruud Van Nistelrooy:
[video=youtube;GIxWqt00tOs]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIxWqt00tOs&feature=related[/video]

Honourable mentions to Ruud Guillit, Bergkamp, Van Der Sar, Jimmi Floyd Hasselbaink and Jaap Stam.

Last Great: Robin Van Persie
[video=youtube;YyZ5c3m3IJI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyZ5c3m3IJI[/video]

One to watch: Tim Krul
[video=youtube;ywGXKKXrgV4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywGXKKXrgV4[/video]

Honourable mentions here to Michael Vorm and Roysten Drenthe

 

Awww man, Holland has been discussed!!!

 

Oh yeah haha, forgot to mention them ones haha. Yeah, I really think Krul will be the best keeper in the world within the next 5 years or so.

France's greatest import has got to be Thierry Henry - he is still the man now. How he didn't win any world player awards is beyond me - sure he lost out to Kaka who was never as good as Thierry if you ask me. He was unstoppable.

The last greatest French import has got to be Cabaye - not being biased, but he is a class act. One to watch, Ben Arfa. We all know what he can do, just needs to do it on a regular basis.

 

Peru

Last Great: Nobby Solano

One to watch: Andy Polo

Sweden: Great - Ljungberg
Last great: Larsson is probably the best one
One to watch: Rasmus Elm

 

Ibrahimovic?!

 

Brazil: Not many have been great in the Premier League for some odd reason. Think Juninho was arguably the best - did brilliant while at Boro. Maybe others can think of better ones.

Last great was probably Gilberto Silva - was always quite good, never thought of him as superb, but always did the job.

One to watch - Neymar...

 

Oops. He can be Last Great

and maybe change legend to Henrik Larsson

 

sad times when people like Youri Djorkaeff are completely forgotten

 

There has been that many French players, can't put them all in. Vieira, Petit, Pires are others that could be in

 

Costa Rica

Great: Paolo Wanchope
Last Great: has to be Bryan Ruiz, not really any others
One to watch: Joel Campbell. We will get a permit for this guy eventually, he looks a class act.

 

I was thinking Wanchope was the only one

Thought Ruiz was Colombian for some strange reason lol.

 

Too white? Most Costa Rican's are black.

 

Haha, not sure why I thought it tbh.

On topic, would say Benjani was Zimbabwe's best import

 

If we're working like that, i'd say Emmanuel Adebayor is Togo's finest.