It's highly unlikely Stoke City will be making it back to the Premier League this season, which means another season in the second tier for the Potters.

Michael O'Neill has stabilised the club since his appointment in 2019, where they were threatened with relegation to League One before his arrival.

Stoke's squad has a very British feel to it now, with the majority of the senior side either English, Welsh or Irish, with the odd Scot thrown in there for good measure.

In recent years, especially when in the Premier League, the Potters' team has been littered with foreign talent - some better than others - and some far more expensive than the rest.

Even before their Premier League days Stoke had foreign talent in and around the club, but how many from that era make it into the top 10 foreigners that have played for them?

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Gunnarsson was a club-record signing for Stoke in 1999, joining from Swedish club Orgryte for a fee of £600,000.

Stoke were owned by Icelandic businessmen at the time and Gunnarsson was by far the best foreigner of the group that was signed.

In his second season at the club, Gunnarsson won the club's Player of the Year trophy, and he scored five times from midfield in just 23 appearances during the 2001/02 promotion campaign.

The Iceland international did end up leaving for Nottingham Forest in 2003 but he was well-regarded at the Britannia Stadium.

Diouf served Stoke for six years and by the end of his time at the club last year he had played a number of different positions, becoming Mr. Versatile.

Stoke picked the Senegal international up on a free transfer in 2014, and he was a regular for his first four seasons - scoring 11 Premier League goals in his very first campaign.

They ended up drying up a bit though, but Diouf showed loyalty in 2018 following the club's relegation to the Championship - although he played just 22 times in two seasons before leaving Stoke.

His early contributions though were very good and he deserves to be on here.

A player for Dutch giants PSV and Ajax earlier in his career, as well as a Holland international, signing for Stoke in 2001 was a bit of a comedown for Hoesktra.

The winger though dazzled crowds with his ability featuring regularly in their 2001/02 promotion season to the second tier, and then featured heavily when he was fit.

Unfortunately though his time at Stoke lasted just three years - injuries built up and he was forced to retire in 2004 after just 88 appearances and 12 goals - his legacy remains though and in 2008 he was voted as the best foreign player to play for Stoke at the then-known Britannia Stadium.

A real Stoke City cult hero, Tony Pulis brought this big Malian striker to Staffordshire from Gillingham in 2005.

Sidibe was never prolific in Kent, nor was he at Stoke either, but what he did bring was a physical presence at the top of the pitch.

Sidibe's best scoring season was nine goals in the league in the 2006/07 season, but even when the Premier League days started he still featured regularly - mainly off the bench.

Hardly appearing in his last few seasons at the club, Sidibe is still recognised as a massive fan favourite and it's a shame that injuries ruined the end of his time at Stoke.

Not many goalkeepers have scored in the Premier League, but Begovic is one of them.

The Bosnian spent five years at the Bet365 Stadium, not appearing much in his first season at the club but then became the undisputed first-choice stopper for Tony Pulis and other managers.

Begovic was actually dropped towards the end of his time at Stoke but he ended up getting a big move in 2015 to Chelsea - he was never really a regular fixture at Stamford Bridge but his performances for the Potters allowed him to make such a transfer possible.

Stoke fans would probably take Begovic back now - he's still performing well in the Championship for Bournemouth.

Following Blackburn's relegation to the Championship, Nzonzi made the move to Stoke and early in his Potters career, Tony Pulis predicted that the Frenchman would play in the Champions League one day.

He'd be right, but it wouldn't be with Stoke, although his performances for the club led him to the likes of Sevilla later on in his career.

His performances did dip during a period, but he recovered and in the 2014/15 season, Nzonzi was named as Stoke's Player of the Year.

It wasn't enough to keep him around though - a move to Spain followed and since then he's had quite the successful career.

When we talk about modern-day fan favourites, Fuller has to be up there for the way he dazzled Stoke fans for a number of years.

Fuller had knee troubles earlier in his career and a move to Stoke in 2006 signalled a fresh start having fallen out of favour at Southampton.

The Jamaican repaid the faith shown in him by hitting double figures in the league in his first three seasons - that included the Potters' debut Premier League season when he struck 11 times.

Fuller got less prolific towards the end of his Stoke tenure but 43 goals in 182 games was a decent record and he more-than entertained the fans over the years.

Very few Stoke fans would have believed that Huth would go on to win the Premier League once he had departed the club in 2015, but he deserved it for the efforts he gave to the Potters.

Huth ended up being a bargain buy at £5 million in 2009, forging a solid partnership with Ryan Shawcross and they were two colossus centre-backs.

Huth played 149 league games over six years for the club, scoring 13 times and fell out of favour in 2014, eventually joining Leicester - and the rest as they say is history as Huth went on to forge another solid partnership with Wes Morgan. I wonder what happened to those two...

Many have questioned Arnautovic's attitude over the years, but you cannot deny his sheer talent at playing football.

A cheap signing at a cost of just £2 million, the Austrian did take a while to show his true impact, scoring just five times in his first two seasons but he exploded into life in 2015, scoring 11 times in the top flight.

Arnie stayed for one more season before the Potters made a monster profit on him - West Ham came in with a £20 million bid and he said goodbye to Staffordshire and hello to the bright lights of London  - Stoke fans for the most part loved his maverick talents.

Stoke seems to be the real anomaly in Shaqiri's senior career, having played for Inter Milan and Bayern Munich before arriving in Staffordshire and then going on to Liverpool.

The signing of the Swiss winger was seen as a real coup and although he struggled with injuries at times, whenever he was available he lit up the Bet365 Stadium.

His final season with the club saw him score eight times in the Premier League but it wasn't enough to save them from relegation - and he deservedly got a move to another big club that just happened to win the Premier League last year.