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‘Henry reduced top-class opponents to helpless also-rans’ – Arsenal icon is Premier League’s best ever, says Smith

Thierry Henry is the greatest player to have ever graced the Premier League, says Alan Smith, with the Arsenal icon considered to have “reduced top-class opponents into helpless also-rans”.

The Gunners moved to free the French forward from a difficult spell at Juventus in the summer of 1999.

Henry arrived in north London was a World Cup winner, but seen more as a lively winger than a fearsome frontman.

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That all changed under the guidance of Arsene Wenger, with Henry tallying a club-record haul of 228 goals for the Gunners over the course of two spells.