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Who has won consecutive titles with different teams in the same country?

From left: Johan Cruyff (Ajax and Feyenoord), Kylian Mbappé (Monaco and PSG) and Eric Cantona (Leeds and Manchester United) all won back-to-back league titles in the same country.
From left: Johan Cruyff (Ajax and Feyenoord), Kylian Mbappé (Monaco and PSG) and Eric Cantona (Leeds and Manchester United) all won back-to-back league titles in the same country. Photograph: Alamy, VI-Images/Getty, Colorsport/Shutterstock

“Thinking about Gabriel Jesus and Oleksandr Zinchenko, which footballers – aside from Eric Cantona – have won successive top-tier league titles with two different clubs from the same country?” tweets @AFC_Gooner10.

Arsenal face Manchester City at the Emirates, with the chance to open up a six-point lead – with a game in hand – at the top. If they do win the Premier League title, it will be partly down to the decision to sell Oleksandr Zinchenko and Gabriel Jesus to Arsenal in the summer. And what’s interesting about this question is not so much how often it has happened, but how often great or very good players were able to join a rival without anyone throwing a pig’s head.

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