 While with Bordeaux, he played in the 1996 UEFA Cup Final alongside, among others, Zinedine Zidane and Bixente Lizarazu.Anselin joined English club Norwich City on loan towards the end of the 1998-99 season and signed permanently for a fee of £250,000 in the summer of 1999.He found it difficult to settle at Carrow Road due in part to the language barrier, and the club agreed to release him in the summer of 2001.