Ranking the 18 French players to appear for Chelsea in the PL

France may be one of England’s historic rivals, but that doesn’t mean the Premier League hasn’t loved a French footballer.

From Eric Cantona to Hugo Lloris, French players have long been an integral part of modern English club football with the number of French players being among the highest of any nationalities to have played in the league.

Chelsea have never shied away from using foreign players, and it has been no different with their French cohort with the club having said Bonjour to a mammoth 18 French players at a senior level.

Some have lifted the Champions League, or should we say Coupe des Clubs Champions Europeens as it reads on the famous trophy, whilst wearing the famous blue shirt. Others… well let’s just say it wasn’t long until the club said ‘Au Revoir’.

Here are the 18 French Chelsea players to play for the club ranked in order from worst to best. Bon Appetit.

Kakuta can probably feel hard done by to be bottom of this list, but his transfer getting the club temporarily banned from the market is probably a reasonable enough issue to put him at the foot of the table.

Kakuta arrived from Lens as a youth player in 2007, but in 2009 he was banned for four months and the club fined for breaching his contract at Lens in order to move to Chelsea.

It provoked a long legal battle in the courts, with Chelsea eventually winning their appeal, but by that point the damage was done.

Lille-born Kakuta, who had looked a promising young player prior to the ban, never quite looked the same after his stint in the stands, and a series of loans followed before he left for free to Sevilla in 2015.

He’s a Democratic Republic of Congo senior international so arguably shouldn’t be on this list, but when he was at Chelsea he was