Robin van Persie: Premier League legend or nearly man?

The Manchester United striker is edging ever closer to a move to Fenerbahce having perhaps not accumulated the silverware to match his sublime talents in England.

Scroll far enough down the list of the players with a Premier League winner's medal and eventually you find him. He is below David May and Raimond van der Gouw, John Obi Mikel and Joleon Lescott, tied with Clayton Blackmore and Jiri Jarosik, Stefan Savic and Luke Chadwick.

But he is there. Robin van Persie was a champion in 2013. It is the only time he won the title and, as he heads for Fenerbahce, it will remain so. He was an FA Cup-winning substitute in 2005, too, but he only has two major honors to show for his 11 years in…