They may be 9th in the league, but Watford FC comes top for the most languages spoken by players in the Premier League.
The Hornets have been named as the most cosmopolitan team in the top flight, with 11 different languages spoken by players in their squad.
They include five Englishmen, three Frenchmen, two Nigerians, two Irishmen, and two Italians, as well as players for Greece, Brazil, Uruguay, Jamaica, Columbia and Morocco.
Research undertaken by translation service Language Line found Liverpool came out second with nine languages spoken, while Burnley is bottom of the table with just three.
With a total of 26 languages spoken in total, the study also found Spanish is the second most spoken language in the Premier League, after English – with just over half of Premiership players speaking it as a first language.
At the bottom of the language league come Armenian, Croatian, Czech, Lithuanian, Turkish and Ukrainian, each with 0.2 per cent players, or one player of each language.
Everton striker Romelu Lukaku is given acknowledgement as possibly the most multilingual player, able to speak Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and English and also understands German.
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