Quiz! Can you name the 50 most expensive French player transfers ever?

Paul Pogba

With their Clairefontaine academy, deep talent pools and handsome faces, it’s no wonder that the French have been producing so many elite footballers over the last two decades.

Look, nobody is impressed, OK? What’s wrong with a bit of Lilleshall, paying £35m for Andy Carroll and having Phil Jones as a pin-up? You won’t be laughing in three weeks when he’s holding the World Cup above his head and pulling some incredible faces.

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Alex Reid

Alex Reid is a freelance journalist and the former digital features editor at FourFourTwo. He has also written for the Guardian, talkSPORT, Boxing News and Sport magazine. Like most Londoners, he is a lifelong supporter of Aberdeen FC. He is deceptively bad in the air for a big man. He has never been a cage fighter.