Chelsea comfortably top the table for the number of minutes played by foreign stars in the Premier League this season, with some homegrown talent struggling for game time.
Analysis by the CIES Football Observatory shows that the Blues have fielded ex-patriate players for 87 per cent of the time they have been competing in the top flight, this term.
Wolverhampton Wanderers’ Portuguese influenced squad are in second place (82 per cent) and Manchester City’s all-stars are third (78 per cent), with all but four Premier League teams playing ex-pats for more than 50 per cent of the minutes played.