The Premier League is one of the most competitive and lucrative competitions in the world for players to ply their trade, so it is natural for the biggest names to have some desire to play there one day.
Fans are often given that exhilarating feeling of seeing a name linked with their club in the transfer window, but it can grow tiresome when it is the same name repeatedly mentioned as a potential target — only for the deal never to happen.
But whether it is an unfortunately-timed injury or a transfer negotiation that broke down over a fee or personal terms, there are plenty of cases where the move just hasn’t materialised for some players, or they have simply chosen to go elsewhere. Mirror Football looks at 10 of the most notorious examples of players who always looked likely to move to England, but never took the plunge.
