How many norwegian players have been in Premier League the last 10-11 years, must be alot of them. Is this everyone? Thomas Myhre - Everton, Charlton. Espen Baardsen, Tottenham. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer - Man Utd. Ronny Johnsen - Man Utd, Newcastle, Aston Villa. Henning Berg - Blackburn, Man Utd. Erik Nevland - Man Utd. Tore Andre Flo - Chelsea, Sunderland. John Arne Riise - Liverpool. Azar Karadas - Portsmouth. Trond Andersen - Wimbledon. Eirik Bakke - Leeds, Aston Villa. Stig Inge Björnebye - Liverpool, Blackburn. Lars Bohinen - Nottingham Forest, Blackburn, Derby. Bjørn Otto Bragstad - Derby , Birmingham. Jan Åge Fjørtoft - Middlesbrough, Sheffield United. Jostein Flo - Sheffield United. Frode Grodås - Chelsea, Tottenham. Gunnar Halle, Leeds, Bradford. Vegard Heggem, Liverpool. Alf Inge Håland - Leeds, Nottingham Forest, Man City. Steffen Iversen - Tottenham, Wolverhampton. Erland Johnsen - Chelsea. Frode Kippe - Liverpool. Bjørn Tore Kvarme - Liverpool. Øyvind Leonhardsen - Wimbledon, Tottenham, Liverpool, Aston Villa. Claus Lundekvam - Southampton. Morten Gamst Pedersen - Blackburn. Tore Pedersen - Blackburn ? Wimbledon. Petter Rudi - Sheffield Wednesday. Ståle Solbakken - Wimbledon. Jo Tessem - Southampton. Egil Östenstad - Southampton, Blackburn , Man City.
Off the top of my head I can't think of anyone who's missing from that list. Minor question: didn't Thomas Myhre have a spell with Sunderland as well?
Roger Nilsen Don't recall whether he did with Sheffield United in the Premiership after 1995. But he did play 3 games for Tottenham towards the end of the 1998-99 season.
Martin Andresen also played in England. He transfered from Stabæk to Wimbledon (£1.800.000) and played 13 games and scored 1 goal for them in the 1999/2000 EPL season. He went back to Stabæk on a free transfer after spending a short spell on loan at Molde, and was loaned out again from Stabæk to Blackburn in Frebruary 2004 where he made 11 EPL apps before turning back to Stabæk. Now he's a big player at Brann and on the NT , although he's been injured most of the time :/
Gunnar Halle also played for Oldham. He scored the goal that saved them from relehation in 1993. Mats Møller-Dhæli, Jo Inge Berget for Cardiff, Magnus Wolf Eikrem, Man itd and Cardiff. Joshua King, Man Utd. Frank Strandli, Leeds United.
which is the 1 that achieved the most success? Ole Gunnar i'd guess though John Arne Riise needs some credit (as a Liverpool fan I must say)
Hard to say. Many players achieved some kind of success I would say. Henning Berg? Won PL with two different teams, not many have done that. Ronny Johnsen, 4 PL titles. TA Flo, 57 goals for Chelsea and Sunderland. FA Cup winner. Gamst Pedersen, almost 350 games and 50 goals for Blackburn. To bad Heggem got injured he would have been big.
more Norwegians in the PL then Danes or Swedes? I'm curious. Standout Danes would have to be Schmeichel along with Agger and Bendtner (off the top of my head). It def seems less of all 3 these days though.
Jan Mølby was as big for Liverpool as Schmeichel was for United ... Per Frandsen (more than 250 PL games for Bolton and rated among the best outside the top PL clubs ), much like with Christian Eriksen and now Schmeichel the 2nd ..... Thomas Gravesen (before he signed with Real Madrid and went nuts) .... but there have been lots of Danes in the PL, like Jesper Grønkjær, Allan Nielsen and Jesper Olsen .... though it has mainly been centre backs.
I often forget some popular names. I blame the late night posting. where'd you rate Agger? As a Liverpool fan I'd rate him highly. Key role in some of the best Liverpool sides of the 21st century. Shame his injuries curtailed his career. I quite like watching Eriksen. Real talent there
Agger Is not doubt the best Danish centre back who has played in the PL ... others worth mentioning are Martin Laursen, Marc Rieper, Jacob Laursen, Thomas Gaardsøe, Martin Albrechtsen... and then the present West Ham vice-captain Winston Reid was a Danish U-21 international when he moved to the PL from Midtjylland, but he has dual citizenship and eventually chose to play for New Zealand when they managed to qualify for the WC in 2010, mainly because there was no hope that he could make the Danish WC squad at that point in time, even though Martin Laursen had just retired... At the moment Jores Okore is the only Danish centre back (besides Winston Reid), playing in the PL, while the young Chelsea talent Andreas Christensen is still on loan to Borussia Monchengladbach in the Bundesliga ... the other PL Danes this season are obviously Christian Eriksen, Kasper Schmeichel and Stoke keeper Jakob Haugaard .... Pierre-Emile Højbjerg who Southampton has picked up from Bayern Munich this summer and also newly signed Viktor Fischer, who has moved from Ajax to Middlesbrough.
You can find the full list of foreginers in the English PL right here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign_Premier_League_players
It's amazing the history of top Scandinavian talent in the PL. Though mostly in the 90s and 00's rather than today. Only Scandinavians worthy of mention now would be Christian Eriksen and Kasper Schmeichel. Maybe also Victor Lindelof whenever he starts playing.
Agger, a total Legend. I admire that he though he left Liverpool, he took a paycut and returned to his hometown club. He didn't go to Barca or City for the $$$.