Saturday saw Dennis Bergkamp's last appearance as a player. Those who've marvelled at Zidane and Ronaldinho's clips should also enjoy this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYzhUoH0 ... 20Bergkamp

Go Seahawks

Crazy announcers. Big fan.

Henry hands down. By a long way.

Don't forget he (Henry) only cost like 7m or something when he was about 22... He's now worth maybe 7-10 times that...

I'd also throw out a couple more names you might wish to consider in that list -

Schmeichel - best goalkeeper in my lifetime. Cost a barely believable £1m if I remember rightly. In terms of value for money, surely the greatest signing pretty much ever ...

Zola - OK didn't win much, but Cantona-like, was a genius and an inspiration to his team...

Viera - another absolute bargain basement. Wasn't getting in the team at Milan and cost about 2 or 3 mill if I recall. I remember seeing him yeeeears ago in European games when he was playing in France and thinking there's a guy who could be a great holding player.... Probably 2nd only to Henry in having the biggest impact in Arsenal's success in the last 8 years.

Augustine "Jay Jay" Okocha - not close to being in the league of anyone else in this list, but in terms of value for money ..... Cost Bolton a nominal fee from (I think) a Greek team or something; gave 4 years of service as one of the elite midfielders in the league and lead a largely star-less Bolton team into Europe. Not bad for about one fiftieth the price of Juan Sebastion Veron, who flopped at Man U AND Chelsea.

And finally, technically a foreign import even though he came from just over the Irish Sea,

Roy Keane - many would argue the best midfielder in English football in the last 20 years. I always hated the guy but he's won EVERYTHING in football and was an inspiration at united. If I remember right he cost Nottingham Forest next to nothing from an irish team (SHamrock Rovers or something?) as an 18 year old, and then about £3.5m (nothing now but then if I recall was a british record) for Man United in about 91/92. Still arguably United's greatest ever captain.

Funny enough, even though 3 of the top imports were signed by Ferguson at Man United, when I think of the biggest foreign import flops of the Premiership, a lot of them seem to be his signings too.... Veron surely top of the pile, you've also gotta love Kleberson, the Brazilian world cup winner who turned out to be a complete donkey, and his inability to sign a decent goalkeeper for like 2 seasons after trying a ton of no-hopers (Barthez, that Brazilian guy whose name I can't even remember, erm, Ricardo, Tim Howard, Roy Carroll anyone ?)....

Worst ever surely has to be Mutu though - Chelsea paid about 20 million for him, quickly fell out with everyone, failed a drugs test, and then got shipped back to Italy for next to nothing lol

Veron has to push him close though.... again, 20-odd million to Man United, struggled to copewith the pace of English football and looked uncomfortable, not terrible, but THEN Chelsea went and paid another 15million-odd for him before he finally sloped off back to Italy.... Surely in terms of total money spent he's the biggest flop.

And anyone remember when Harry Redknapp bought a string of foreign failures at West Ham one season? That was hilarious ! Anyone remember Florin Raduciou? No??? Thought not....

Oh, and of course the nut worst footballer ever to play for any team at any level anywhere, the hilarious Andrea Silenzi who (by virtue of being a skill-free battering ram centre forward who got lucky one season for Torino and scored some goals in Serie A in Italy) got a lucrative transfer to Nottingham Forest and then promptly was laughed out of town about 8 months and a ton of dreadful missed chances later ....

Oh, so many happy, happy memories....

Ha ha yeah I remember that! That guy could trap a ball further than I can kick it....

I don't even think he was a footballer at all - I believe he was just a student or something. Great rouse though, one of the greatest - talking your way into a top professional football team with no skill or experience whatsoever lol....

I think it was Glenn Hoddle btw, and not Souness, though I might be wrong. Souness has a litany of transfer disaster behind too, however.... He managed to ruin Kenny Dalglish's championship Liverpool team in approximately 18 months if I recall, as well as screwing up pretty much every job and falling out with every player he's worked with since time immemorial...

I stand corrected.... it was indeed Souness!

Yet another glorious chapter to add to his managerial role of honour, then....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Dia

Other ones I forgot...

Does anyone remember "Fat" Frank Strandli? He was a Norwegain striker who signed for Leeds (I think) from somewhere, back in about 1993.... And then promptly went missing. I'm not sure he ever played a game for the club outside of friendlies, reserve games and meaningless cup fixtures.... Oh, and he was fat and comically slow.

Tomas Brolin - The once excellent Swedish player who also joined Leeds, seemingly unbeknownst to them he'd put on about 50 lbs in the process and remains one of the fattest and most useless signings ever... I think he played about 20 times and George Graham paid about 5 million for him, back in the mid-90s a pretty huge transfer fee.

Or perhaps Gilles De Bilde, the Belgian guy Sheffield Wednesday bought after he'd been top scorer in the Belgian league to attempt to stave off relegation.... After punching someone in the face and getting suspended for a while, he scored about, oooh, two goals, and was never heard of again....

Or maybe "Mad" Marco Boogers, the Dutch wierdo who was another of Redknapp's signings at West Ham.... All I remember of him is he got sent off a lot and disappeared after about a month.

And of course who can possibly forget Savo Milosevic, who's confounded all expectations by going on to have an extremely successful career for club and country since his awful spell at Villa...