Regardless of what some people say, the Premier League is the best league in the world. It may not have the likes of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, but it is the most competitive of Europe’s top five leagues.
No team has retained the Premier League title since 2009 after Manchester United won it on three consecutive occasions. Ever since then, it has been a fight for success, with no side dominating the league.
Chelsea has won the league three times since then, as have Manchester City. Manchester United have won two titles, but none since Sir Alex Ferguson’s retirement, while Leicester City were the shock champions of the 2015/16 season, with the Foxes defying odds of 5000/1 to win the title in extraordinary fashion.
The Premier League has also seen some brilliant players over the years. Thierry Henry really made a name for himself in England, where he was sensational for Arsenal before leaving for Barcelona. We have also seen the likes of Cristiano Ronaldo come from abroad and do the business, while the likes of Frank Lampard, Ryan Giggs and Steven Gerrard have all succeeded having come through the academies of clubs in England. But that’s the past, and now back to the present.
1 Eden Hazard (Chelsea)
Hazard has become the best player in the Premier League over the last few years and continues to produce the goods for Chelsea on a regular basis. He is one of the best in the world and showed that off to everyone at the World Cup this summer, where he helped Belgium to third place. The 27-year-old has the ability to keep the ball under constant pressure and can go past a man with apparent ease.
He is more than capable of coming up with a moment that is genuinely world class, as he showed against Liverpool on Wednesday night. He has won two Premier League titles with Chelsea and has been a massive part of both, winning the Player of the Year award for the 2014/15 season. There have often been links with a move to Real Madrid, but that move has never gone through, and he has continued to do the business at Stamford Bridge.