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#9 Gustavo Poyet
Uruguayan midfield veteran Poyet didn’t cost Chelsea a penny when they signed him, surprisingly enough. He joined the Blues in the summer of 1997 on a free transfer just prior to his 30th birthday, after becoming Real Zaragoza’s longest-serving foreign player. After his first season at Stamford Bridge was cruelly cut short due to a knee injury, he came back with a vengeance in 1998/99 – scoring 14 goals as Chelsea finished third in the Premier League.
1999/00 was even better for the Uruguayan as he contributed an outstanding 18 goals, including scoring both in Chelsea’s 2-1 win over Newcastle in the FA Cup semi-finals. The side went on to win the FA Cup and also reached the Champions League quarter-finals, with Poyet proving an instrumental part of the side throughout.
Despite scoring another 12 goals in the subsequent season, Poyet was allowed to leave for Tottenham in the summer of 2001, and he proved to be a hit at White Hart Lane too, scoring 23 goals over three seasons despite picking up a lot of injuries.
Poyet loved England so much in fact that he ended up managing Brighton & Hove Albion for four seasons before heading back to the Premier League with Sunderland, where he had one solid season before being fired towards the end of the 2014/15 season with the club in danger of relegation.
