Ronaldo voted best Premier League player ever, ahead of Thierry Henry and Ryan Giggs

Despite just spending 6 seasons in the Premier League, Cristiano Ronaldo has been voted the best player in the Premier league 23-year history.

A survey carried out by Usurv placed Ronaldo above Thierry Henry and Ryan Giggs who finished in 2nd and 3rd place respectively.

The current FIFA Ballon d'Or holder joined Man United in 2003 from Sporting Lisbon for a fee of £12m.

During his six-years time at Old Trafford he netted 118 goals in 292 appearances and won the World Player of the Year in 2008 after inspiring United to a third European Cup triumph.

Ronaldo's time in the Premier League ended when he joined Real Madrid for a then world-record fee of £80m in 2009.

As whooping 1,000 members of the public were given the option of 10 former EPL players to vote for and invited to select who they thought was the best in the top-flight's history.

Those 10 players were: Thiery Henry, Cristiano Ronaldo, Ryan Giggs,  Gianfranco Zola, Dennis Bergkamp, Steven Gerrard, Alan Shearer, Eric Cantona, Roy Keane and Patrick Vieira.

Ronaldo got 24 percent of the votes, got six percent more than the amount gathered by Arsenal legend Henry.

Giggs got 13 percent of voters, leading former United teammate Eric Cantona and Alan Shearer who both collected 12 percent of the votes.

Departing Liverpool legend Steven Gerrard  also got 10 percent of people.

Bergkamp, Zola, Keane and Vieira gathered 5, 3, 2 and 1 percent of the remaining votes respectively.

The final score

1. Ronaldo (177 votes - 24 percent)

2. Henry (133 votes - 18 percent)

3. Giggs (95 votes - 13 percent)

4. Shearer (92 votes - 12 percent)

5. Cantona (89 votes - 12 percent)

6. Gerrard (77 - 10 percent)

7. Bergkamp (40 votes - five percent)

8. Zola (24 - three percent)

9. Keane (14 votes - two percent)

10. Vieira (six votes - one percent)