Eight things in Africa Premier League

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Caption Sadio Mane signed with Liverpool for £ 34 million ($ 45 million), becoming the most expensive player in Africa

The English Premier League has released the official list of 25 players for the 2016/17 season. Stanley Kwenda The BBC looks at seven things about African players in the Premier League.

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Are there a total of 46 African player their trade in the Premier League this season twisting - that an increase of one from last season's.

This corresponds to approximately 9% of the total of 500 players.

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Every team in the league has an African player

Senegal team

Senegal has the largest contingent of players in the league, with eight, followed by six Ivory Coast, Nigeria, with five, four Algeria while Ghana has three.

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Senegal captain our photo Cheikhou Kouyate plays for West Ham

The country almost can make your own team Premier League. It has a good balance of frontends and lawyers:

Cheikhou Kouyate (West Ham United)

Diafra Sakho (West Ham United)

Pape Souare (Crystal Palace)

Idrissa Gana (Everton)

Oumar Niasse (Everton)

Sadio Mane (Liverpool)

Mame Biram Diouf (Stoke City)

Papi Djilobodji (Sunderland)

All they need is a goalkeeper.

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Interestingly, no African Goalkeeper of the 45 African players in the Premier League. Well, unless you want Steve Mandanda, Crystal Palace goalkeeper DR Congo are playing with born France international football.

Leicester 5 - Sunderland 5

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Caption Ahmed Musa African Presence in the Leicester City has encouraged

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Caption Andre Ayew of Ghana joined West Ham Swansea City in the summer

Premier League champions Leicester City and Sunderland have previous African representation with five players per person.

Everton, Watford and West Ham United are closely each with four players: https://www.premierleague.com/news/84136

Sunderland has a rich history of Africa. It has some of the greatest footballers of Africa as Patrick Mboma of Cameroon, Ghana Asamoah Gyan and John Mensah, Benjani Mwaruwari, Zimbabwe and Morocco Talal El Karkouri home.

Last year, Crystal Palace was the largest number of African players, a total of five, but since it was reduced to three.

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Guinea Equatorial and Libya have their first Premier League player as Middlesbrough defender Emilio Nsue and Sadik El Fitouri Manchester United this season.

The expensive defender

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Caption Eric Bailly Manchester - and his team-mate Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Ivory Coast defender Eric Bailly is one of the highest profile African player of the Premier League to join this season. The transfer rate of £ 30 million ($ 40 million) is among the most expensive defender.