1) ROBBIE FOWLER (The "God")
- Once referred as the "God" by Liverpool fans, this greatlad here is now forgetten, but still active, playing for Perth Glory in the A-League in Australia
- Age: 35 years old
- Nationality: England
- Clubs: Perth Glory, North Queensland, Blackburn, Cardiff, Liverpool (2 spells), ManCity, Leeds United
- Career height: 120 goals in 236 appearances for Liverpool
2) THIERRY HENRY
- The legend of Arsenal @ Highbury (old stadium) and did not follow the move of Arsenal to their new Emirates Stadium after being sold to Barcelona for a fee around 16 mil Euro. The greatest buy of all time by Arsene Wenger for the fees of only 10 million pounds in 1999. Playing in the US for NY Red Bulls now after leaving before the season starts.
- Age: 33 years old
- Nationality: France
- Clubs: Monaco, Juventus, Arsenal, Barcelona, New York Red Bulls
- Career height: 174 goals in 254 appearances for Arsenal
-Ranked 3rd in all time UCL goal scorer (50 goals in 109 app)
3) Ruud Van Nistelrooy
- The flying Dutchman, brought by SAF to ManUnited for a fee around 19 million pounds. One of the greatest striker and most feared forward in the EPL during his stint at ManUnited
- Age: 34 years
- Nationality: Netherland
- Clubs: Hamburg(now), Real Madrid, ManU, PSV, Heerenveen
- Career height: 95 goals in 150 appearance for ManUnited
- Ranked 2nd in all time UCL goal scorer (54 goals in 74 apps)
4)Andriy Shevchenko
- The biggest flop of all time in the EPL and Chelsea's transfer history that cost Chelsea 30 million pounds but only scored 9 goals in 47 app. for Chelsea. Average 3.33 mil pounds per goal. Ouch!
- Age: 33 years
- Nationality: Ukraine
- Clubs: Dynamo Kyiv(now), Milan (loan), Chelsea, Milan, Dynamo Kyiv
- Career height: 127 goals in 208 appearances for AC Milan
- Ranked 4th in all time UCL goal scorer with 48 goals in 100 games
5) Christian Vieri
- He was brought to Inter Milan for a (then) world record fees of 32 million Euro from Lazio when all the spells in all his previous clubs are flops. He had a very successful spell with Inter Milan and possessed one of the best striking partnership at that time with Ronaldo (the fat one) in 1999.
- Age: 37 years (retired)
- Nationality: Italy
- Clubs: Atalanta (3 spells), Fiorentina, Monaco, AC Milan, Inter Milan, Lazio, Athletico Madrid, Juventus, Vanezia, Ravena, Pisa, Torino
- Career height: 103 goals in 143 appearances for Inter Milan
- A whooping 12 different football clubs during his whole footballing career
6) FERNANDO MORIENTES 
-Once the most talented young Spanish forward with a bright future, Fernando Morientes has a dip in his career after falling out with then Real Madrid manager Vicente Del Bosque and being sent out on a loan to Monaco from 2003-2004
- Age: 34 years
- Nationality : Spain
- Clubs: Marseille (now), Valencia, Liverpool, Monaco, Real Madrid, Real Zaragoza, Albacete
- Career height: 72 goals in 198 games for Real Madrid with a deadly striking partnership with Raul
- Ranked 7th in all time UCL goal scorer with 33 goals in 93 games. Raul ranked 1st with 66 goals in 132 games.
7) HERNAN CRESPO
- The Argentinian forward has scored more than 300 goals in his spanning 17 years of footballing career, which 35 of them was scored for Argentina with only 64 appearances.
- Age: 35 years
- Nationality: Argentina
- Clubs: Parma (now), Genoa, Inter, AC Milan, Chelsea, Lazio, River Plate
- Career height: 62 goals in 116 app for Parma, 39 goals in 54 app for Lazio
- Once broke the world record with a transfer fee of 35 mil Euro from Parma to Lazio
8)RONALDO
- The all time goal scorer in World Cup with 15 goals was once hailed as the greatest footballer on Earth after Pele and voted FIFA World Player of The Year twice back to back in 1996 and 1997.
- Age: 33 years
- Nationality: Brazil
- Clubs: Corinthians, AC Milan, Real Madrid, Inter Milan, Barcelona, PSV, Cruzeiro
- Career height: 42 goals in 46 app for PSV, 34 goals in 36 apps for Barcelona, 49 goals in 68 apps for Inter, 83 goals for 127 games for Real Madrid
- All time World Cup goal scorer with 15 goals
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