Dele Alli

In May 2015, an industrious 19-year-old Englishman by the name of Dele Alli, a young starlet who had set the Football League alight during an outstanding season littered with impressive performances, inspired Milton Keynes Dons – his hometown team no less – to a 5-1 thumping of Yeovil Town that sealed the club's promotion from League One. Six months later, he was playing for England. Alli, an all-action box-to-box midfielder, who has drawn comparisons to one of the Premier League's greatest stalwarts, Steven Gerrard, has enjoyed a meteoric rise quite unlike any other. Now, Alli is rated highly enough that his place in Tottenham and England's squads is not questioned.