...might want to reword that because in between Erling & KdB:
- Kai won the CL his first season in england. Chelsea have wasted him since then, but he shined early on before sputtering.
- Pulisic produced more in his first EPL season than he ever did in germany...at the senior or youth team level.
- Son never scored in the BuLi the way he does in England.
- Firmino went from 17pts in 2918 BuLi minutes to 18pts in 1983 EPL minutes after LFC bought him.
- Auba went from 16 pts in 16 BuLi matches to 14 pts in 13 EPL matches when he left BVB.
- Arnautovic has hit double-digit goals in the EPL 3 times; his BuLi high was 6.
- Xhaka's best season in the Bundesliga he had 4 pts, he had 4pts his first season with Arsenal and has surpassed that mark 3 times since then...including 5 pts after 10 matches this year.
- Ilkay joined City the year after KdB and has been a staple for them since.
- Pascal Groß has become a staple for Brighton since joining them from Ingolstadt.
- Vitaly Janelt was considered a bust in germany but is now one of 9th placed Brentford's key players.
- Joel Matip -- when not broken -- has been better against EPL attackers than BuLi ones in his career.
And Akanji has been crushing it for City this season after having been much more mediocre his last two seasons in Dortmund...but he was signed after Erling, so I won't count him.
Now if you wanted to rephrase that you could strike Pulisic and maybe Kai from the list, but that still leaves plenty of successful BuLi-to-EPL transfers