Deniz Undav was playing for a relegation fighting 3rd division team in Germany just 2 years ago, transferred to the 2nd Belgian division the following season. The fact alone that he is playing premier league and scoring is a miracle for him, hence why i would not include him as a flop as no one expected him to play a significant role for brighton yet.
@@nont18411 he clearly was and he has the potential to become more successful and significant for Brighton. I just think that given his career so far, he is already massively overperforming all expectations
@Shaun Bolten I actually thought of Solly March but then I checked again, he already has 7 goals and 7 assists this season 😂 dude is actually improving this season 😆
@@bababababababa6124 It's not excuses it's literally facts, only City, Arsenal and Newcastle have let in less goals than us, our struggles come from us not knowing how to score consistently, friendly reminder that we made it to the quarter final of the champions league btw
Leon Bailey one feels a bit harsh and should be Coutinho. Yes Bailey's not met expectations but Coutinho had higher expectations and has contributed less this season
agreed. Bailey has come up with moments of brilliance, sure, not consistently, but a few times. Coutinho has just warmed the bench and should be shipped off
They should rename this ‘I’m a white guy so don’t relate to black players as much, so judge them more harshly list’. Leon Bailey was an utter ridiculous choice when Coutinho exists.
As a Brighton fan, I would go with Robert Sanchez over Deniz Undav. Undav hasn't been great but it is his first season in a new league, and it hasn't helped him that Mitoma has hit the ground running given they both came in at the same time from USG. Sanchez however has lost his place to a 32-year-old Jason Steele, who was a laughing stock before this season thanks to his time at Sunderland. Whilst I think credit has to go to Steele for turning his career around, Sanchez has gone from a promising Spain-international GK, to losing his place in the team and making countless mistakes when he has been given his opportunities. He is also 25 now, so not really considered a young player. He just hasn't built on his development after breaking into the team in 2020
I’d argue Tariq Lamptey. Constantly injured and the amount of injuries he’s had has meant he’s lost the edge he had when first came through under us the rare time he does play
@@Nazzazzaable not a bad shout, but after Tariq’s massive injury over the past few years, he’s never looked the same player. I thought Sanchez would kick on, like realistically, who thought Steele would be our number 1 this season at the start of it? Nobody
14:42 Very harsh on Carlos Vinícius. Yes he has 28 appearances, but in 14 (half) of them he played 8 minutes or less. He's scored some impressive goals (e.g. vs. Chelsea & Man City) and when Mitro was suspended, and he finally got a run of 5 starts, he got 3 goals and an assist. He just needed a run as a starter for things to click. He's actually a very good finisher.
Jadon Sancho has to be in there he was unreal in Dortmund easily the best Dortmund player in last 5 years after Haaland after his UTD move he looks unrecognisable he barely did anything in UTD now in the verge being replaced by Garnacho
Man United fan here, so sad to see his downfall given the fact he had some great moments early this season. Now it seems like he can't play well on his own, he always need Luke Shaw to show up and when Luke wasn't available for left back, Jadon was screwed.
@@justhuy7960 even when Shaw played sancho has been a let down. I was so excited when we signed him due to his flair and skills, he has shown none of that since signing for Utd. I think we should move him on and have garnacho, Amad, rashy and Antony as the wing options
@@alexpenkethman196 Why not try him as a playmaking CAM first, we are probably already selling Van de Beek it makes sense to see if he could work somewhere before eating a massive loss on a still young player with multiple years left on his contract.
@@d1want34 But if Sancho continues like this his next contract (whether at Manchester United or elsewhere) will be significantly less lucrative, so there still should be some motivation.
@@shobhit2197 have you actually watched Brighton play tho? Everytime I've seem them play this season with Undav in the Team he is clearly a level below the rest. Yes he might have a good finish every now and then. Though for everyone he does he fucks up like 10 other good chances. He gives the ball away constantly and his passing and hold up ability is very poor
@@diazcastro7331 he ruins the team completely He is now a deep targetman bc he can’t be anywhere else, that used to be sons role who now has been disappointing Richy can’t run as fast so through balls and counters don’t work he can’t finish properly he’s a huge flop
Mikkel Damsgaard hasn't really underwhelmed, in my opinion, due to his really bad injuries the year before, so he has actually been really good on many occasions.
Alfie, now it's time for the opposite video - biggest overachievers at every PL club. I would imagine that when it comes to Chelsea (as a Chelsea fan myself), you would struggle to find anyone who you can call an "overachiever", but I am hoping that you would make that video nonetheless.
Sterling definitely hasn’t been the worst signing. He’s been absolutely useless, but Cucurella has actually been a liability and he was a more expensive transfer. Sterling has done more good in his last 2 games than Cucurella has all season.
There was more hype and expectation for Sterling though. I agree Cucurella has been worse, but he wasn’t expected to be amazing and every thought he was mediocre and a waste before he came, but Sterling was expected to help push Chelsea to finally start scoring.
Sterling is Chelsea's top goal scorer and has the most assists, he's missed alot of games this season also.. How can you say he's been useless when he has the best stats in a poor team..???
Not sure Damsgaard is a right fit here. Brentford signed him knowing they'd need to physically rebuild him after dealing with an aggressive form of arthritis (and get some muscle on him as well). He was always a long-term project. I'd like to reiterate my suggestion: 7 athletes who didn't make it in football, but found great success in other sports.
he´s average player. 60 million pounds a exorbitant value for a player who had shown little evidence of being a great player for a great team. everything at chelsea was disastrous..
Everton signing Maupay has to be one of the worst recruitment decisions I've seen from a club. As a backup to Dominic Calvert Lewin who was inevitably going to have injury problems, we sign a striker who is a completely different type to DCL and was the striker playing for Brighton when they were creating a lot but not scoring. That should've made the signing a no-no immediately
I give you Chris Wood. I don't know if there was a loan fee to boot but that's a 31 year old striker, an obligation to buy for £15m if he makes 3 starts, given 3 starts as soon as possible, injured for the season after 7 appearances but we've now got to pay £15m and about seventy grand a week whether we stay up or not. The clown who negotiated that deal on our behalf should've been drowned at birth. The sporting director has since been sacked so hopefully we don't have that individual in the building anymore.
Spot on. As a neutral, I couldn't believe it when Everton clearly needed a goalscoring striker and signed Maupay who scored occasional spectacular goals and missed sitters. Having sold Richarlison, then to sell Gordon on top of that and not get a replacement - the mind boggles. Sean Dyche has done a fantastic job to keep them up. What price Allardyce now? Dyche has had to play a similar way, concede as few goals as possible and hope to poach an occasional goal and win 1-0, because it was the only way Everton could conceivably get points.
I feel bad for Phillips at City. I feel like they bought him so nobody else could have him. Pep must’ve known Rodri was always going to be ahead of Phillips so he was only going to be injury cover
Such is sport these days, signing players you don’t want or need, but you don’t want a rival to have either. All about gaining an edge over your competitors. The people involved, the spectacle, and the competition is all subservient to winning, and thus making money
He was bought to be back up to Rodri after Fernandinho 'retired' back to Brazil. Sadly he hasn't proved to be good enough and I am sure will be sold in the summer. City play more games at a higher standard than pretty much every other club so having a back up for DM makes sense. However, there are standards that players have to meet for Pep, and Phillips hasn't done enough to gain his confidence.
What are you saying? Especially with this new formation change, there were plenty of opportunities for him to get minutes, but he is overweight and Pep has said so multiple times.
city have been historically great at that since they became rich, the list of players they have bought and not played, hence ruining their career is long.
That Kalvin signing is still the biggest nonsense to me. They already had Rodri who is one of the best CDMs in the world at the moment but in the end Guardiola decided to use Stones as a secondary CDM (kind of). Really strange, Phillips should have joined to another team instead his career is might be over because of this move.
homegrown numbers matter. i'm convinced that's why they signed him, just like they wouldn't pay 100 mil for Grealish if he wasn't homegrown (even though you can argue ha has been worth it after this season)
Not a Southhampton fan but I am a supporter of the Croatian national team and its absolutely insane that they signed Orsic but only gave him 6 minutes to prove himself. Don't know what's going on behind the scenes of course but I do know hes pretty good and deserves a legitimate chance. Felt the same about Vlasic at West Ham. How can you deem someone a flop when you don't start him or ever play him in his natural position. I'm biased of course but holy crap why even spend the money/
Vlasic was fucking dreadful, and had to criticise Sam Allardyce to justify the fact he couldn’t hack the league. Don’t let your affection for Croatia blind you from that.
THANK YOU FOR SAYING MESLIER. Everyone has massively overrated him this season, he was alright last year but he was horrendous most of this season, thanks Alfie!
i feel like being fairly inexperienced and having a defense made of cheese for a few seasons now scrambled his brain. he'll probably come good somewhere else but he should move on
It’s Rutter for me. Dude is the record signing and has shown absolutely nothing. I get that he’s young and needs a bit of seasoning, but for someone at that cost there should be flashes. None of which I’ve seen. Thoroughly underwhelming PS the worst part is that all options mentioned are reasonable and I don’t disagree with them being the choice. Not good when we’re debating who is the worst and they’ve all been poor
For Utd I would give to Harry Maguire. You are club captain yet you warm the bench I mean Ten Hag even converted Luke Shaw to a centreback because he doesn't trust Maguire ..
Well, if you look at the list of captains since SAF retired, they have all been underwhelming. So not sure why Maguire is getting flaked for warming the bench as current club captain when past captains have also warmed the bench
@@animevsirl there’s warming the bench as club captain, then there’s warming the bench as club captain because your manager would rather play someone out of position than play you, despite being one of only two specialised players that are fit in that position. Maguire’s future isn’t at United, Ten Hag has made that clear. If he has any dignity, for the sake of his career, he should put in a transfer request and go to a mid table club out of the limelight, where he can regain the form that prompted United to buy him in the first place
@@animevsirl Honestly post SAF Bruno (who was barely been captain for half a season) and Pogba (who should never be one of your best players in "leadership") have probably been the two that have been benched the least and who have had the most "success" during their tenures even if it was coincidence more than skill for Pogba.
Maguire is hated because of who he is, not how he plays. Every game he’s played, United have won, except Sevilla, which was far more De Gea’s fault. Tip for you: watch football, not social media.
Honestly Chelsea alone could make up this entire list its ridiculous how they are likely to finish in the bottom half of the league considering the amount they have spent on teansfers especially Enzo Fernandez which really is a complete mockery considering the dreadful season they have had
@@frankreynolds9930 their major hole isn't any position but it's someone who can score, even if it's a defender who can score would be helpful to them now
As a Servette fan, I can say that in Geneva Mbabu is finding his form again. He struggled in the first few games back in his boyhood club but he's back to defending well and giving some great crosses. Hopefully his lack of form in Fulham was only a blip and he'll get back to the higher levels soon, although we will miss him
As a Newcastle fan it's fair to pick Gordon tbh, who else is there? I wasn't convinced we needed him though I'll give him a chance, but if we are to try and compete in the prem and play in Europe next season we'll need more astute signings and I suspect he'll get a chance to show if he was a smart move or not.
What about Saint-Maximin, clearly reduced to bench player this year, I like his dribbling skill though but he wasted so much chances that he becomes meme in my country 😂
@@kalmanfortoloczki432 Bit hard on him as his opportunities have been limited with Burn playing in his position and playing well and to be fair he has never let us down when he has played.
Enzo at Chelsea is lucky he isn't English. Can you imagine the abuse and attention he'd get if someone paid £105m for an English midfielder with no goals and assists! (For proof, look at how much people question Rice, and his goal and assist records).
Richarlison has been bad for us and looks like a huge flop but he barely plays so it never matters, Son and Hugo play week in week out and have been detrimental to anything we attempt to do this season.
Sons scored in pretty much every game since conte left. It helps when you play in your natural,free role. Hugo has been out for 4 games and richarlison has either not been given minutes, been injured or played as a LW….I mean he is Brazils starter upfront but C#nte knew better. He will be a whole different player next season, like most of the team without the oppression of C#notes style….you may have guessed I’ve never been a big fan of C#nte 😂
I forgot over 1000 minutes is barely playing. He’s scored 1 goal in over 1000 minutes, that is atrocious. You lot would be lucky to get 10m back from him. This is almost on the same level as the Harry maguire signing
Meslier for Leeds is crazy. He has won several games for us on his own, and only collapsed when the Marsch death spiral had already commenced. Rutter is the obvious choice, the wrong player, for the wrong money and unable to get a game.
@@johnmitchell2269 Firpo is poor, Cooper is probably going to be fine for us next year, for obvious reasons. But I don't know where you got the idea Bamford can finish! He can hold the ball up and press brilliantly, he has a decent cross. What he can't do is control or score.
Anthony Gordon could end up being a fantastic replacement for Jonny Shelvey. Who was unfortunate very serviceable but in the end became too inconsistent to start/rely on.
Bailey I thought was a little harsh considering Coutinho has done considerably less this season, but I can understand why you put him here. Still think there is plenty of potential there if he is still at Villa next season.
Its been a pleasure to watch young Odegaard go from a good quality player and move swiftly towards becoming the utter pitch monster Football Manager always assumed him to be at 16/17 years old at Real Madrid!
@@Larryandbob lol imagine that’s the reason, i think he did get complacent cus he had no competition but after bajcetic started playing it’s like he realised he could be replaced in the summer, i remember hendo got quite good last year when he realised elliott might take his starting position
@@Hans8341 not really mate, you’d expect a slight dip but he looked like a completely different player, im glad he’s doing good again but it’s not an excuse for the level he dropped to
Havertz IS at the lowest point in his career, playing out of position and still Chelseas best fortward this season. And no he hasn‘t played well this season but the hate he gets is insane, compared to other players.
Jack Grealish, last 2 seasons, 98 games, 9 goals and 12 assists... thats less than a goal every 10 games, and 1.1 assist every 10 games ..if your going to only just hold the ball, and gets paid over £100 million for 5 years, which is disgustingly underperforming
Kherer's really come into his own recently, soucek hasn't been great but a lot of the criticism of him is about his goal threat which totally disregards his defensive abilities, scammacca's a bit of a harsh inclusion but to ignore cornet is a pretty massive ommission
How about Paqueta? Bought as a record signing to supposedly improve the team and does some clever stuff but so much of the time with no end product, at least until the last few games. Antonio still seems to be off the boil too. West Ham seem to have relied on Bowen and Rice digging them out of a hole, so problems if they are off-form or injured.
Alfie, do a video on the top 7 clubs suffering with the greatest disappointments and heartbreaks. I'd imagine Peterborough would be in there after ytds effort, preston maybe after so many failed attempts at getting into the prem, what others do you think are the longest sufffering or suffering the most??
Damsgaard is a harsh call for brentdord. Hes been recovering from arthritis most of the season but at the tail end was crucial in wins over nottingham forest, man city and tottenham. Despite not registering goals or assists, it was his tackles and passes that led to game winning goals. Hes been used as a midfield destroyer rather than a creative player, that role belongs to jensen and Dasilva
In all competitions Undav has started 8 games this season and scored 7 times. The 14 games without a goal or assist mentioned were mostly 15 minutes or less as sub, He has a goal every 115 minutes played in 2022/23, which is actually a better record than Evan Ferguson's. In fact, of players with more than ten EPL appearances this term, only Haaland, Wilson & Kane are ahead of him.
Honestly, I think one of Leicester's major problems this season was that they had too many midfield options - Tielemans, Maddison, Barnes, Dewsbury-Hall, Ndidi, Soumare, Praet, Mendy, Albrighton... Even with Ndidi's quality, finding a consistent starting role in that mix had to be nigh impossible. And now I expect at least 4 of the first 5 names on that list to be gone next transfer window. What a disaster.
a documentary of Borussia Dortmund and how they were extremely close to bankruptcy in 2002 time and how Bayern had to save them. The extreme difficulties the club has had to manage within to get back to where they are #thepeopleschannel
agreed on Fabinho. he has recovered some form recently and i don't want to hate on a player so instrumental to our success over the years, but his downfall this season is just outstanding
True. It's a bit sad to have to include players who have proved themselves and done really ell in the past but for some reason have just totally lost form. Fabinho, Ndidi and Sterling have all made vital contributions to their teams in the past. Hopefully they can all recover and show that form is temporary while class is permanent.
I disagree with Richarlison. He’s been disappointing but he was never signed as a starter, he’s just a very expensive part of the Kane backup curse. Hugo Lloris, the club captain and formerly world class keeper, has cost a team more points than any individual this season and has been outshadowed by Fraser Forster of all people. Conte may be the reason we aren’t in the Champions League, but Lloris is the reason no Europe is a possibility.
Day 7: 7 Best Loan moves ever. The loan moves that have greatly benefited the team receiving the player for a limited amount of time. While not exactly the best, I always think of Morientes to Monaco as an example. In a way, it's at the opposite end of the spectrum of this video
Alfie, you should do a series of videos that looks at the best football player born on each day of the year broken up into 12 videos one for each month. You could release the videos over an entire year with videos releasing on the first of their respective months to spread the videos out as well
Kalvin Phillips has been so bad that Pep won't even trust him to come on unless they are 3+ goals up, i'll be stunned if he's there still next season. His only contribution is getting paid for waving to the fans before a game starts, that's all does.
@@benjammin9471 Damn that's violation 😂 but seriously I could see him start in PL teams from lower half of a table, he's just not good enough for being a backup to the best DM in the world i. e. Rodri so he suffer strongly from being compared to him.
Speaking of a more positv video, my recommendation would be a video about the SC Freiburg:) In general, I'd love to see more videos about the bundesliga form you. Big Fan of your's. As always great entertainment, thank you
Thank you for not labelling Antony as a flop. There are too much slander on him right now (I used the word “slander”, not “criticism” because it came from bad faith) by the British media just because of his price tag and his spinning but I think he’s improving every game and his end product might be low thanks to the teammates like Martial and Weghorst who can’t score to save their lives. Hell, just look at Bruno Fernandes. 108 chances created. Highest in the league. And how many assists he made from those chances? EIGHT! That’s how abysmal United attack really is.
Mate weghorst is on loan, martial has been injured majority of the season. Antony was 100mil and his finishing isnt exactly great, hes also part of the front line that is abysmal. Yes he is improving but still very predictable. Gakpo came in the winter didnt score his first 6 games but now has out performed antony in goals and assistscombine. Not to mention this is united best team in years and Liverpool’s worse.
@@marko9463 "united's best team in years" where are you coming up with this load of crap? This is one of United's worst teams of all time. A sentiment that's been repeated so much over this season that you feel the urge to repeat the opposite enough to try to make it true, just pathetic.
@@marko9463 your pool team is virtually the same for the past 2-3 years then added Darwin and Gakpo, what load of crap are you trying to spout. Classic annoying pool fan who tries to argue a fact as if you can change it. United's worst team in years is being repeated so much which is where you got this phrase from, then you troll by saying the opposite. Just classic Liverpool intellectual. No better than a child.
Think it's a bit disingenous to say that "Undav failed to score in his first 14 games" It's true... but those "14 games" totalled 270 minutes... 270 minutes without scoring isn't really anything to note at all.
@@Eibarwoman exactly. if a player played 3 games, full 90 minutes, and didn't score, before starting to really catch fire , those 3 games wouldn't really bare mentioning.
I'm quite disappointed that you didn't even consider Rob Holding for Arsenal. Especially when his disastrous performances are the biggest reason why Arsenal failed to win both the Premier League & Europa League.
The flipside to that is that Saliba seems to have been a real unsung hero and it was only when he dropped out that it became apparent how important he was. All the pundits had been raving about the forwards and midfielders.
@@iankemp1131 To be fair, Defenders have long been the unsung heroes of any side. Despite the fact they are probably the most important players on the pitch. That's why Saliba should be getting player of the season for Arsenal. It's also no coincidence that ever since the Campbell-Toure Partnership met it's demise. Arsenal have never had a serious title challenge until now.
As a Leeds fan and season ticket holder I can that your spot on with Meslier he’s been dreadful all season. Can’t believe no one had took him out before now
Yes but there’s so many far worse players for your team. You’re seriously a cringe worthy fan base if you genuinely defend Aaronson (MLS is his level) for his “attitude”, Rutter, Bamford, Roca, McKennie (come on now he’s been rubbish, don’t just blame everybody else), Wöber and Struijk.
Can't always expect the goalkeeper to perform miracles when he's given no protection at all by the defence. For his age I would say he has overperformed up till now.
It's strange, as a Tottenham fan, I don't see Richarlison as a flop but more of someone I feel sorry for because he hasn't gotten a fair shot, but I guess he has to be a flop because of his output.
Mikkel Damsgaard for Brentford is a poor fit since it was known from the beginning, that he would be using most of this season to get back into fitness (and putting on some muscle), and not considered to be contesting for being regular first team starter this season (and even then he've actually mostly managed this in the tail-end of the season) Much more probable name for Brentford would be Keane Lewis-Potter
Lewis-Potter has struggled due to injuries far worse and also due to Thomas Frank being a very strange human being who’s developed a sheer grudge, far more unjustified than Damsgaard (who’s been awful every time he’s played unlike Lewis-Potter). Surely Schade is a shout if you’re all complaining about Damsgaard? Proving pace and vibes aren’t enough to make you a good footballer for months now.
Very harsh to call Vinicus a flop. Back-up to our star player, stepped up and scored some important goals and has only improved over the season. Also did not cost us £9m. Fulham flop should be Kevin Mbabu. Came in expecting to challenge Kenny Tete for RB position. Played a few games, had a massive falling out with Marco Silva and then left to rot in the reserves. Now that's a waste of money.
Best German players in the premier league of all time. (Day 500) I will not give up until the video is made or Alfie himself tells me to stop. Everyone else telling me that will be ignored. If you don't believe my number, just go back to the previous videos. I'm at the bottom most of the time, but I'm there.
Everton fan here. Anthony Gordon is very VERY average at best (and is also a spoilt brat btw). Richy was our best player last season and its so sad that we squandered the good money we got for him. P.S The ENTIRE Everton squad are flops.
I don't mean to pile on Neal Maupay but he never scored at Brighton while getting a ton of chances, so I've no idea why Everton signed him thinking that he'd score goals. Surely that's what Everton needed, was someone to put the ball in the net. Works hard? Yes. But strikers ultimately are judged on goals.
Everton don't think much when signing players lol. They dont do them in a clever way, just based on v i b e s. And yeah, Maupay has gotten a lot of chances so he scored some at Brighton, even though his conversion rate has been poor and everyone was saying Brighton need someone better, but he has gotten a fair amount of goals because of that, so Everton, being the shambles that they are, thought he was actually good. For me he's championship standard
Alfie, do a video where nothing was expected of a player(previously unknown quantity) and they have exceeded expectation consistently without saying half of the Brighton team.
If English clubs stopped paying such ridiculous fees for all these players then it wouldn't look so bad as it does so its their own damn fault from paying such fees for so many of these players many who are aren't experienced at the highest level so doesn't justify the amout they are bought for
For Chelsea I think that Sterling is a good shout, given how it feels like the only thing he is still capable of doing is run very fast and pass sideways. However considering the awful season we are having I think there are candidates better suited for this. Aubameyang is already worse of a flop simply because he managed to play such an unimportant role in this team, that he get un-registered for the CL and it's not unlikely that Chelsea will let him go for free in the summer, despite him still having a contract. If Broja wouldn't have injured himself so badly I think it's safe to say that Auba wouldn't have featured more than 10mins collectively in all games played in 2023 so far. Without Broja, Aubameyang remains the only senior striker in the squad, yet he is unsuccessful to get past Havertz, Sterling or whoever else is put there in the starting lineup. The only thing somewhat rescuing him here is that he was cheap. He would be my flop of the season.
Do a video on biggest knockout competition comebacks including playoffs given that Sheff wed overturned a 4-0 deficit to go through on pens in the league 1 playoff semi
As poor as Meslier has been Patrick Bamford has to be featured, he has gone from talks of him becoming England's #9 to Championship quality within 12 months
Let's face it in any other time Arsenal would have indeed have had a fantastic season but when you're up against Man City even that's not good enough to win you the title such is the insane strength in depth of the city squad who can basically field 2 title winning squads that Arsenal simply can't compete with and neither can anyone else in the EPL and unfortunately that doesn't look like changing any time soon
@grealish there's basically no drop off in quality whenever they pick up injuries they just continue on winning week in week out there's really no difference in quality between their first and second choice squads
Next season will show if it was just luck or Arsenal does have a good team,my guess its luck like the red mancs with Ole finishing 2nd,next season when Newcastle will be stronger,Liverpool back from whatever went on with them ,Spurs stop with its spurs legacy & Chelsea not in the lower half + whatever will happen with the red mancs,hate me or not but if the others return to form i dont see Arsenal in top4.
@@ierbutza21 No way can you dismiss Arsenal this season as just luck, they have overachieved which is a tribute to Arteta but they are a young and growing team. Need to increase squad depth to play Champions League but I'm sure they will be in top 4 next season, can't see them going backwards now.
As Liverpool -fan, I agree that Fabinho took a deep dive. But at least honorable mention should go to Fabio Carvalho, who´s been mostly absent. For couple months I even forgot he was in the club!
Good article. I'll let your choice of Anthony Gordon at Newcastle slide but you overlook his significant improvement in end product towards the end of the season. Comes with getting used to the club, its players and the new style of play .... so not exactly surprising
Rashford bounced back??? He's been shocking this season. A few goals for a short spell and now he's back to the standards of the usual over hyped English player
Imagine the collective shock/eyeroll when that flop Richarlison not only made it into the Brazil WC squad, but started! Were Brazil really THAT bereft of talent?
Anyone with a brain would not have been shocked at Richarlison's inclusion in their squad and xi, he's still playing very well and regularly scoring for Brazil
@@yourmum955 what? You get picked for the national team based on your CLUB form, not to fill a gap like Walcott in 2006. If you really believe Richarlison was picked solely for his club form then I wish you well in life.
Richarlison was Brazil topscorer in this cycle, nobody here was surprised, the second option was play Neymar or Rodrygo as a false 9, but that wasnt trained enough Gabriel Jesus is absolutely hated in Brazil because of his previous cycle 2014-2018
Mopay sale probably some of the best business Brighton have done this decade. Had the best ( well not bad) 3 years out of him then sold for almost what he cost. Had a a knack of blasting over from 6 yards out.
He also neglects the part where Bailey has been doing alot more defensive work which Emery has made known. Instead he makes it seems like he isn't doing great factoring injury and tactical requirements
I honestly don't think Heung-min Son deserves a mention even, putting his season down to individual underperformance ignores the fact that until Ryan Mason become manager, Conte/Stellini's tactics instructed Son to play almost exclusively in a back-to-goal role, to allow for Perisic to make the forward runs that Son had so much success making last season. If you coach a player to avoid playing to his strengths, he will likely underperform compared to a season where he played more of his normal role. Something to consider.
His performance against Aston Villa kinda summed up his season though. He's largely anonymous for most of the game and wasted most of the chances that came his way
@Ravage27 yeah, goes without saying hes lost a lot of his confidence this year. Tactically, playing Perisic as a LWB was never going to allow Son to play to his full potential. Its easy to look at lack of impact in games but there are many valid reasons. I'd argue several spurs players in roles they should succeed in have been much more underwhelming this year. Lloris and Hojbjerg are easily worse this year
Sambi's career at Arsenal is definitely over. he couldn't even start regularly at palace and with potential recruitments in the summer including rice and caicedo, i think it's better he return to belgium or play somewhere else where he can be a guaranteed first team starter. fabio viera on the other hand has been dreadful this season. he has always been the weakest link in the first 11 whenever he plays. he can't link a pass nor defend.
As a Forest fan, I go with Dennis over Lingard. Lingard got injured at the point we thought he was starting to deliver and it just hasn't happened for him. He's seemingly always been a great part of team spirit. Dennis has been really frustrating in games, hasn't ever really delivered and just feels like he's doing his own thing. Lingard is on a one year, shot to nothing deal, Dennis we paid £10m+. You can forgive someone for trying and failing, but it's unforgivable if you don't really give a s**t
hey HITC, I have a video content recommendation for you guys, can you list the top 10 or whatever number the best assistant managers are right now? Thanks
Deniz Undav was playing for a relegation fighting 3rd division team in Germany just 2 years ago, transferred to the 2nd Belgian division the following season. The fact alone that he is playing premier league and scoring is a miracle for him, hence why i would not include him as a flop as no one expected him to play a significant role for brighton yet.
Dude is significant enough to end Arsenal’s title hope
@@nont18411 he clearly was and he has the potential to become more successful and significant for Brighton. I just think that given his career so far, he is already massively overperforming all expectations
@Shaun Bolten I actually thought of Solly March but then I checked again, he already has 7 goals and 7 assists this season 😂 dude is actually improving this season 😆
@@justhuy7960 Solly March has been great lol. For Brighton I'd say Robert Sanchez who has now been dropped to the bench
@@justhuy7960 Er... March could well win Player of the Season!
The ENTIRE Chelsea Team Deserves an Honorable Mention …. 🕳. ⚽️
Not really, our issue is our lack of scoring. So it's mostly attacking players
@@raciogdI’m just hearing a whole bunch of excuses 😂😂😂your entire team is the very definition of “flops” lmao
We’ll be back 😉
As a United fan I wish we had Enzo Fernandez and Joao Felix.
@@bababababababa6124 It's not excuses it's literally facts, only City, Arsenal and Newcastle have let in less goals than us, our struggles come from us not knowing how to score consistently, friendly reminder that we made it to the quarter final of the champions league btw
Leon Bailey one feels a bit harsh and should be Coutinho. Yes Bailey's not met expectations but Coutinho had higher expectations and has contributed less this season
agreed. Bailey has come up with moments of brilliance, sure, not consistently, but a few times. Coutinho has just warmed the bench and should be shipped off
They should rename this ‘I’m a white guy so don’t relate to black players as much, so judge them more harshly list’. Leon Bailey was an utter ridiculous choice when Coutinho exists.
@Delboy0 jumping to a lot of conclusions there..
Coutinho is shite. He always has been but you’re not allowed to say it for some reason.
@@Delboy0 Coutinho is also not exactly... white?
As a Brighton fan, I would go with Robert Sanchez over Deniz Undav. Undav hasn't been great but it is his first season in a new league, and it hasn't helped him that Mitoma has hit the ground running given they both came in at the same time from USG. Sanchez however has lost his place to a 32-year-old Jason Steele, who was a laughing stock before this season thanks to his time at Sunderland. Whilst I think credit has to go to Steele for turning his career around, Sanchez has gone from a promising Spain-international GK, to losing his place in the team and making countless mistakes when he has been given his opportunities. He is also 25 now, so not really considered a young player. He just hasn't built on his development after breaking into the team in 2020
Why did he let it bounce
I’d argue Tariq Lamptey. Constantly injured and the amount of injuries he’s had has meant he’s lost the edge he had when first came through under us the rare time he does play
@@Nazzazzaable not a bad shout, but after Tariq’s massive injury over the past few years, he’s never looked the same player. I thought Sanchez would kick on, like realistically, who thought Steele would be our number 1 this season at the start of it? Nobody
@@xavimace9483 I wouldn't have bet against it. I've always though Sanchez was dogshit
@@yourmum955 Yeah he's made so many mistakes for a long time but people seemed to just ignore it and kept saying he was great? Was weird
That Leon Bailey shout is outrageous, with Coutinho at Villa💀
he chose Sterling for Chelsea, Sterling, their top scorer, this Alfie i question his opinions often
Philip coutinho wins hands down at the villa
At least bailey is available and contributed to the team
Thank Gerrard for that one. Everyone who watched Coutinho at Barca knew he was done as a player.
That's not fair because he was a good friend of Stevie G so he gets a pass. :)
*Title: "THIS SEASON"*
He was a flop at Barcelona, and apart from a few brilliant flashes of brilliance, and then returned to mediocrity!
He needs to be shown the door!
Bailey has the potential to become a great player, he has such amazing talent, he’s had a few injury problems
14:42
Very harsh on Carlos Vinícius. Yes he has 28 appearances, but in 14 (half) of them he played 8 minutes or less.
He's scored some impressive goals (e.g. vs. Chelsea & Man City) and when Mitro was suspended, and he finally got a run of 5 starts, he got 3 goals and an assist.
He just needed a run as a starter for things to click. He's actually a very good finisher.
Also wasn't £9.5m as Alfie says, much closer to £4.5m
@@BenPrime53 Exactly!
100% didn't do his research while making this. Anyone following Fulham knows he hasn't been a flop.
Agreed, Vinicius has looked better for Fulham than he ever did for Sp*rs. Solid back-up for Mitrovic and performed well when needed.
7 teams which ended on a high after having seemingly disastrous seasons (i.e. Sevilla, West Ham, Liverpool)
Bayer Leverkusen
Spurs last year
Juve
Sevilla ends up in the mid table of La Liga (10th place) despite beating Juve in semifinal and breaking into UEL's final.
How are Liverpool ending on a high
Cucaracha over Sterling. 60 million and has given absolutely nothing back during the entire season.
How on Earth are you going to choose only one at Chelsea?
Jadon Sancho has to be in there he was unreal in Dortmund easily the best Dortmund player in last 5 years after Haaland after his UTD move he looks unrecognisable he barely did anything in UTD now in the verge being replaced by Garnacho
Man United fan here, so sad to see his downfall given the fact he had some great moments early this season. Now it seems like he can't play well on his own, he always need Luke Shaw to show up and when Luke wasn't available for left back, Jadon was screwed.
@@justhuy7960 even when Shaw played sancho has been a let down. I was so excited when we signed him due to his flair and skills, he has shown none of that since signing for Utd. I think we should move him on and have garnacho, Amad, rashy and Antony as the wing options
@@alexpenkethman196 Why not try him as a playmaking CAM first, we are probably already selling Van de Beek it makes sense to see if he could work somewhere before eating a massive loss on a still young player with multiple years left on his contract.
350k per week does take away any motivation to do better
@@d1want34 But if Sancho continues like this his next contract (whether at Manchester United or elsewhere) will be significantly less lucrative, so there still should be some motivation.
Including Undav is insane. It's his first season and he has been in insane form for past 4 weeks
Wouldn’t say insane form lol
same to lokonga and vieira
@@tt11138 he was playing in the Belgian league. Now scoring in the premier league. I would say insane form
@@shobhit2197 have you actually watched Brighton play tho? Everytime I've seem them play this season with Undav in the Team he is clearly a level below the rest. Yes he might have a good finish every now and then. Though for everyone he does he fucks up like 10 other good chances. He gives the ball away constantly and his passing and hold up ability is very poor
@@shobhit2197 I wouldn’t even say mo salah is in ‘insane’ form let alone undav 😂
I love how Richarlison first goal was ruined just half a minute later by Jota.
He doesn't get playing time how do u expect him to score
@@diazcastro7331 he’s scored one goal in 1000 minutes in the league. That’s pretty bad
@@diazcastro7331 he ruins the team completely
He is now a deep targetman bc he can’t be anywhere else, that used to be sons role who now has been disappointing
Richy can’t run as fast so through balls and counters don’t work he can’t finish properly he’s a huge flop
@@diazcastro7331 why do you think he doesn’t get playing time? Is it cos he’s good, or not? Hmmm. Tough one.
@@diazcastro7331 hes played 1006 minutes this season and scored 1 goal..... yea thats some stat huh?
Mikkel Damsgaard hasn't really underwhelmed, in my opinion, due to his really bad injuries the year before, so he has actually been really good on many occasions.
Once he started being fit again and starting games, he's been quite good when I've seen him paly
As a dane I am happy to hear that. We all love him back home. All 12 of us
@@felixbache5369 Don't be too harsh on yourselves, we all know there are at least 17 Danes out there.
@@Alfie_1 that's very kind of you to say
I only came here to see what 🐝 was gonna be called out. Figured it would be damsgaard.
Alfie, now it's time for the opposite video - biggest overachievers at every PL club. I would imagine that when it comes to Chelsea (as a Chelsea fan myself), you would struggle to find anyone who you can call an "overachiever", but I am hoping that you would make that video nonetheless.
Chelsea’s overachiever is Colwill, his loan has gone brilliantly.
Lukaku is in the champions league final 👍
Can we acknowledge that Alfie has used a video for the second time in the history of the channel, instead of still images?
When?
@@ousmansano21 16:05
Sterling definitely hasn’t been the worst signing. He’s been absolutely useless, but Cucurella has actually been a liability and he was a more expensive transfer. Sterling has done more good in his last 2 games than Cucurella has all season.
There was more hype and expectation for Sterling though.
I agree Cucurella has been worse, but he wasn’t expected to be amazing and every thought he was mediocre and a waste before he came, but Sterling was expected to help push Chelsea to finally start scoring.
@@benhayes5396 cucurella cost chelsea close to 60m, how on earth he wasnt expected to be amazing? 😂
@@harukrentz435 Indeed, that's some mental gymnastics right there. Cucurella was outstanding for Brighton, which is why Chelsea paid so much for him.
Yeah but look at the wages sterling is on. Hes costing chelsea so much as a senior player without producing anything.
Sterling is Chelsea's top goal scorer and has the most assists, he's missed alot of games this season also.. How can you say he's been useless when he has the best stats in a poor team..???
Not sure Damsgaard is a right fit here. Brentford signed him knowing they'd need to physically rebuild him after dealing with an aggressive form of arthritis (and get some muscle on him as well). He was always a long-term project.
I'd like to reiterate my suggestion: 7 athletes who didn't make it in football, but found great success in other sports.
Marc Cucurella is feeling incredibly relieved for not making the pick 😅
he´s average player. 60 million pounds a exorbitant value for a player who had shown little evidence of being a great player for a great team. everything at chelsea was disastrous..
As a Chelsea fan, i am ready to see the whole team on this list🥲🥲
So much quality, so much underperformance of said quality.
@@phightinphil25 it is what it is
Everton signing Maupay has to be one of the worst recruitment decisions I've seen from a club. As a backup to Dominic Calvert Lewin who was inevitably going to have injury problems, we sign a striker who is a completely different type to DCL and was the striker playing for Brighton when they were creating a lot but not scoring. That should've made the signing a no-no immediately
I give you Chris Wood.
I don't know if there was a loan fee to boot but that's a 31 year old striker, an obligation to buy for £15m if he makes 3 starts, given 3 starts as soon as possible, injured for the season after 7 appearances but we've now got to pay £15m and about seventy grand a week whether we stay up or not.
The clown who negotiated that deal on our behalf should've been drowned at birth. The sporting director has since been sacked so hopefully we don't have that individual in the building anymore.
He's not even your worst signing of the last year or two 😂 Dele Alli
Spot on. As a neutral, I couldn't believe it when Everton clearly needed a goalscoring striker and signed Maupay who scored occasional spectacular goals and missed sitters. Having sold Richarlison, then to sell Gordon on top of that and not get a replacement - the mind boggles. Sean Dyche has done a fantastic job to keep them up. What price Allardyce now? Dyche has had to play a similar way, concede as few goals as possible and hope to poach an occasional goal and win 1-0, because it was the only way Everton could conceivably get points.
I feel bad for Phillips at City. I feel like they bought him so nobody else could have him. Pep must’ve known Rodri was always going to be ahead of Phillips so he was only going to be injury cover
Such is sport these days, signing players you don’t want or need, but you don’t want a rival to have either. All about gaining an edge over your competitors. The people involved, the spectacle, and the competition is all subservient to winning, and thus making money
He was bought to be back up to Rodri after Fernandinho 'retired' back to Brazil. Sadly he hasn't proved to be good enough and I am sure will be sold in the summer. City play more games at a higher standard than pretty much every other club so having a back up for DM makes sense. However, there are standards that players have to meet for Pep, and Phillips hasn't done enough to gain his confidence.
What are you saying? Especially with this new formation change, there were plenty of opportunities for him to get minutes, but he is overweight and Pep has said so multiple times.
always felt to me like they bought him for homegrown numbers
city have been historically great at that since they became rich, the list of players they have bought and not played, hence ruining their career is long.
That Kalvin signing is still the biggest nonsense to me. They already had Rodri who is one of the best CDMs in the world at the moment but in the end Guardiola decided to use Stones as a secondary CDM (kind of). Really strange, Phillips should have joined to another team instead his career is might be over because of this move.
Reminds of Jack Rodwell
homegrown numbers matter. i'm convinced that's why they signed him, just like they wouldn't pay 100 mil for Grealish if he wasn't homegrown (even though you can argue ha has been worth it after this season)
Why would his career be over? Especially considering the quality of training with city and pep
Philips could come good for them Ake hardly played for them now he plays a lot.
They never used stones as a dm before this season
Not a Southhampton fan but I am a supporter of the Croatian national team and its absolutely insane that they signed Orsic but only gave him 6 minutes to prove himself. Don't know what's going on behind the scenes of course but I do know hes pretty good and deserves a legitimate chance. Felt the same about Vlasic at West Ham. How can you deem someone a flop when you don't start him or ever play him in his natural position. I'm biased of course but holy crap why even spend the money/
Especially with their situation it’s crazy they never gave him a chance
Vlasic was fucking dreadful, and had to criticise Sam Allardyce to justify the fact he couldn’t hack the league. Don’t let your affection for Croatia blind you from that.
THANK YOU FOR SAYING MESLIER. Everyone has massively overrated him this season, he was alright last year but he was horrendous most of this season, thanks Alfie!
i feel like being fairly inexperienced and having a defense made of cheese for a few seasons now scrambled his brain. he'll probably come good somewhere else but he should move on
Roca is awful also, and Aaronson, and Firpo.
@@Roundholesinsquarepegs Absolutely, however they dont flap it into the six yard box
Imo Aaronson for 30 million and loaning Mckennie cause there both awful but what leads needed was to invest in the defense not in the attack
It’s Rutter for me. Dude is the record signing and has shown absolutely nothing. I get that he’s young and needs a bit of seasoning, but for someone at that cost there should be flashes. None of which I’ve seen. Thoroughly underwhelming
PS the worst part is that all options mentioned are reasonable and I don’t disagree with them being the choice. Not good when we’re debating who is the worst and they’ve all been poor
For Utd I would give to Harry Maguire. You are club captain yet you warm the bench I mean Ten Hag even converted Luke Shaw to a centreback because he doesn't trust Maguire ..
Well, if you look at the list of captains since SAF retired, they have all been underwhelming. So not sure why Maguire is getting flaked for warming the bench as current club captain when past captains have also warmed the bench
@@animevsirl there’s warming the bench as club captain, then there’s warming the bench as club captain because your manager would rather play someone out of position than play you, despite being one of only two specialised players that are fit in that position. Maguire’s future isn’t at United, Ten Hag has made that clear. If he has any dignity, for the sake of his career, he should put in a transfer request and go to a mid table club out of the limelight, where he can regain the form that prompted United to buy him in the first place
yeah he has fallen even further, but let's face it, his demise started long before, and everyone thought last season already that he surely has to go
@@animevsirl Honestly post SAF Bruno (who was barely been captain for half a season) and Pogba (who should never be one of your best players in "leadership") have probably been the two that have been benched the least and who have had the most "success" during their tenures even if it was coincidence more than skill for Pogba.
Maguire is hated because of who he is, not how he plays. Every game he’s played, United have won, except Sevilla, which was far more De Gea’s fault. Tip for you: watch football, not social media.
Honestly Chelsea alone could make up this entire list its ridiculous how they are likely to finish in the bottom half of the league considering the amount they have spent on teansfers especially Enzo Fernandez which really is a complete mockery considering the dreadful season they have had
The funniest thing about Chelsea this season for me is that despite all the signings they’ve somehow still got major holes in their squad
@@enthusiastofcute Only major hole they have is DM. Even without no new striker, gk, they will do fine.
Just goes to show that the most important signing you can make is your manager.
@@frankreynolds9930 their major hole isn't any position but it's someone who can score, even if it's a defender who can score would be helpful to them now
@@justhuy7960 It's more to do with manager and central mids not being stable. Even average Lukaku would shine after new DM.
As a Servette fan, I can say that in Geneva Mbabu is finding his form again. He struggled in the first few games back in his boyhood club but he's back to defending well and giving some great crosses. Hopefully his lack of form in Fulham was only a blip and he'll get back to the higher levels soon, although we will miss him
Wow, he’s doing well to perform in the Tissot League ‼️‼️🤯
Your deliveries for lines like 22:49 are just devastating
As a Newcastle fan it's fair to pick Gordon tbh, who else is there? I wasn't convinced we needed him though I'll give him a chance, but if we are to try and compete in the prem and play in Europe next season we'll need more astute signings and I suspect he'll get a chance to show if he was a smart move or not.
What about Saint-Maximin, clearly reduced to bench player this year, I like his dribbling skill though but he wasted so much chances that he becomes meme in my country 😂
I might have suggested Targett. He was a big first signing by Howe and has not featured at all this season.
@@justhuy7960 Injuries didn't help and he can be a little hit and miss but for us more of a hit, and we Geordies do love a skilful attacker.
@@kalmanfortoloczki432 Bit hard on him as his opportunities have been limited with Burn playing in his position and playing well and to be fair he has never let us down when he has played.
I am sorry I don't understand how it isn't Ryan Fraser. He has been here all season and has been crap.
Has to be Rutter for Leeds. A 35 Million signing, a club record, that plays for the under-21s and not the first team. I mean wtf.
Enzo at Chelsea is lucky he isn't English.
Can you imagine the abuse and attention he'd get if someone paid £105m for an English midfielder with no goals and assists!
(For proof, look at how much people question Rice, and his goal and assist records).
Richarlison has been bad for us and looks like a huge flop but he barely plays so it never matters, Son and Hugo play week in week out and have been detrimental to anything we attempt to do this season.
Sons scored in pretty much every game since conte left. It helps when you play in your natural,free role. Hugo has been out for 4 games and richarlison has either not been given minutes, been injured or played as a LW….I mean he is Brazils starter upfront but C#nte knew better. He will be a whole different player next season, like most of the team without the oppression of C#notes style….you may have guessed I’ve never been a big fan of C#nte 😂
60m and 1 flukey goal.
@@JoeCool90 2 in the CL and that goal wasn't a fluke bruh
I forgot over 1000 minutes is barely playing. He’s scored 1 goal in over 1000 minutes, that is atrocious. You lot would be lucky to get 10m back from him. This is almost on the same level as the Harry maguire signing
Meslier for Leeds is crazy. He has won several games for us on his own, and only collapsed when the Marsch death spiral had already commenced. Rutter is the obvious choice, the wrong player, for the wrong money and unable to get a game.
Firpo defensively is poor imo. Liam Cooper very much a Championship CB. Bamford can only finish, offers nothing else.
@@johnmitchell2269 Firpo is poor, Cooper is probably going to be fine for us next year, for obvious reasons. But I don't know where you got the idea Bamford can finish! He can hold the ball up and press brilliantly, he has a decent cross. What he can't do is control or score.
Anthony Gordon could end up being a fantastic replacement for Jonny Shelvey. Who was unfortunate very serviceable but in the end became too inconsistent to start/rely on.
Bailey I thought was a little harsh considering Coutinho has done considerably less this season, but I can understand why you put him here. Still think there is plenty of potential there if he is still at Villa next season.
Bailey over Coutinho is crazy
Its been a pleasure to watch young Odegaard go from a good quality player and move swiftly towards becoming the utter pitch monster Football Manager always assumed him to be at 16/17 years old at Real Madrid!
fabinho has been good the last 5 games but too little too late, if he picked up this form a couple months ago we’d be top 4 for sure
He got shit around the time he was having a kid. Maybe his kid has started letting him get a bit more sleep which is why he's picked up form again
@@Larryandbob lol imagine that’s the reason, i think he did get complacent cus he had no competition but after bajcetic started playing it’s like he realised he could be replaced in the summer, i remember hendo got quite good last year when he realised elliott might take his starting position
He was having a kid ? That will explains why this huge drop happened to him.
@@Hans8341 not really mate, you’d expect a slight dip but he looked like a completely different player, im glad he’s doing good again but it’s not an excuse for the level he dropped to
Havertz IS at the lowest point in his career, playing out of position and still Chelseas best fortward this season. And no he hasn‘t played well this season but the hate he gets is insane, compared to other players.
Jack Grealish, last 2 seasons, 98 games, 9 goals and 12 assists... thats less than a goal every 10 games, and 1.1 assist every 10 games ..if your going to only just hold the ball, and gets paid over £100 million for 5 years, which is disgustingly underperforming
Could you do a video on a combined 11 of the best players outside europes top 5 leagues
The Newcastle comment was stunning, well said 👌
Why do you give some players the benefit of the doubt of it being their "debut campaign", in case of Antony for example, yet include Deniz Undav?
Did you not just hear his reasoning for Undav?
question lad at 17:11 why is there a picture of Soumare there while youre talking about Ndidi hahahaha
I think for Villa, Digne deserves a dishonourable mention.
I think Bailey has proved abit better since emery came in so I wuld say it’s coutinho
Kherer's really come into his own recently, soucek hasn't been great but a lot of the criticism of him is about his goal threat which totally disregards his defensive abilities, scammacca's a bit of a harsh inclusion but to ignore cornet is a pretty massive ommission
How about Paqueta? Bought as a record signing to supposedly improve the team and does some clever stuff but so much of the time with no end product, at least until the last few games. Antonio still seems to be off the boil too. West Ham seem to have relied on Bowen and Rice digging them out of a hole, so problems if they are off-form or injured.
Other than some recent matches, Meslier has been great this season and I hate that so many football fans have recency bias over everything
Alfie, do a video on the top 7 clubs suffering with the greatest disappointments and heartbreaks. I'd imagine Peterborough would be in there after ytds effort, preston maybe after so many failed attempts at getting into the prem, what others do you think are the longest sufffering or suffering the most??
Damsgaard is a harsh call for brentdord. Hes been recovering from arthritis most of the season but at the tail end was crucial in wins over nottingham forest, man city and tottenham. Despite not registering goals or assists, it was his tackles and passes that led to game winning goals. Hes been used as a midfield destroyer rather than a creative player, that role belongs to jensen and Dasilva
In all competitions Undav has started 8 games this season and scored 7 times. The 14 games without a goal or assist mentioned were mostly 15 minutes or less as sub, He has a goal every 115 minutes played in 2022/23, which is actually a better record than Evan Ferguson's. In fact, of players with more than ten EPL appearances this term, only Haaland, Wilson & Kane are ahead of him.
Harsh on Kehrer, had a good few mistakes early on but he's been immense the last few games
Babe wake up new hitch sevens video is out today
Top 7 Trailer Hitches, stay tuned for number 4, they're a controversial inclusion!
Oooo or.
Top 7 footballers that Married each other
Honestly, I think one of Leicester's major problems this season was that they had too many midfield options - Tielemans, Maddison, Barnes, Dewsbury-Hall, Ndidi, Soumare, Praet, Mendy, Albrighton... Even with Ndidi's quality, finding a consistent starting role in that mix had to be nigh impossible. And now I expect at least 4 of the first 5 names on that list to be gone next transfer window. What a disaster.
a documentary of Borussia Dortmund and how they were extremely close to bankruptcy in 2002 time and how Bayern had to save them. The extreme difficulties the club has had to manage within to get back to where they are #thepeopleschannel
If anyone from chelsea are rated higher than 85 in next year's EAFC (fifa 24), it would be absolute criminal.
agreed on Fabinho. he has recovered some form recently and i don't want to hate on a player so instrumental to our success over the years, but his downfall this season is just outstanding
True. It's a bit sad to have to include players who have proved themselves and done really ell in the past but for some reason have just totally lost form. Fabinho, Ndidi and Sterling have all made vital contributions to their teams in the past. Hopefully they can all recover and show that form is temporary while class is permanent.
Richarlison lauging now😂
how was villa not coutinho baileys actiually been decent
I disagree with Richarlison. He’s been disappointing but he was never signed as a starter, he’s just a very expensive part of the Kane backup curse. Hugo Lloris, the club captain and formerly world class keeper, has cost a team more points than any individual this season and has been outshadowed by Fraser Forster of all people. Conte may be the reason we aren’t in the Champions League, but Lloris is the reason no Europe is a possibility.
Day 7: 7 Best Loan moves ever.
The loan moves that have greatly benefited the team receiving the player for a limited amount of time. While not exactly the best, I always think of Morientes to Monaco as an example.
In a way, it's at the opposite end of the spectrum of this video
Tammy Abraham at - every single club he went on loan to before Chelsea did him dirty
@@jordank1489 You're the second person to suggest Tammy Abraham
Chicharito to Real madrid imo
Alfie, you should do a series of videos that looks at the best football player born on each day of the year broken up into 12 videos one for each month. You could release the videos over an entire year with videos releasing on the first of their respective months to spread the videos out as well
No no no no, he really shouldnt.
Kalvin Phillips has been so bad that Pep won't even trust him to come on unless they are 3+ goals up, i'll be stunned if he's there still next season. His only contribution is getting paid for waving to the fans before a game starts, that's all does.
Hey come on now give him some credit, he also picks up the bibs and cones in training
@@benjammin9471 Damn that's violation 😂 but seriously I could see him start in PL teams from lower half of a table, he's just not good enough for being a backup to the best DM in the world i. e. Rodri so he suffer strongly from being compared to him.
Speaking of a more positv video, my recommendation would be a video about the SC Freiburg:)
In general, I'd love to see more videos about the bundesliga form you. Big Fan of your's. As always great entertainment, thank you
Thank you for not labelling Antony as a flop.
There are too much slander on him right now (I used the word “slander”, not “criticism” because it came from bad faith) by the British media just because of his price tag and his spinning but I think he’s improving every game and his end product might be low thanks to the teammates like Martial and Weghorst who can’t score to save their lives.
Hell, just look at Bruno Fernandes. 108 chances created. Highest in the league. And how many assists he made from those chances? EIGHT! That’s how abysmal United attack really is.
Antony is such an important player in how we play.
Mate weghorst is on loan, martial has been injured majority of the season. Antony was 100mil and his finishing isnt exactly great, hes also part of the front line that is abysmal. Yes he is improving but still very predictable. Gakpo came in the winter didnt score his first 6 games but now has out performed antony in goals and assistscombine. Not to mention this is united best team in years and Liverpool’s worse.
@@marko9463 "united's best team in years" where are you coming up with this load of crap?
This is one of United's worst teams of all time. A sentiment that's been repeated so much over this season that you feel the urge to repeat the opposite enough to try to make it true, just pathetic.
@@xCestLaVie1 no its nit name me a united team that is better than this one in the last 7 years
@@marko9463 your pool team is virtually the same for the past 2-3 years then added Darwin and Gakpo, what load of crap are you trying to spout.
Classic annoying pool fan who tries to argue a fact as if you can change it.
United's worst team in years is being repeated so much which is where you got this phrase from, then you troll by saying the opposite. Just classic Liverpool intellectual. No better than a child.
Love your videos, Alfie. You're an absolute legend...bit harsh on Undav though...?
Think it's a bit disingenous to say that "Undav failed to score in his first 14 games" It's true... but those "14 games" totalled 270 minutes...
270 minutes without scoring isn't really anything to note at all.
It's 3 full games. He's hardly had any minutes.
@@Eibarwoman exactly.
if a player played 3 games, full 90 minutes, and didn't score, before starting to really catch fire , those 3 games wouldn't really bare mentioning.
Whoever HITC hired to replace the Irish guy also deserves an honourable mention.
it was last season
That guy genuinely looked like he was filming in his mom's basement and only knew how to interact with people from what he'd read on Reddit. 😭😭
I'm quite disappointed that you didn't even consider Rob Holding for Arsenal. Especially when his disastrous performances are the biggest reason why Arsenal failed to win both the Premier League & Europa League.
Holding by name, holding by nature. Absolute yellow card machine.
The flipside to that is that Saliba seems to have been a real unsung hero and it was only when he dropped out that it became apparent how important he was. All the pundits had been raving about the forwards and midfielders.
@@3rdtonefromthesun That does expose his inability to defend more than anything else.
@@iankemp1131 To be fair, Defenders have long been the unsung heroes of any side. Despite the fact they are probably the most important players on the pitch.
That's why Saliba should be getting player of the season for Arsenal.
It's also no coincidence that ever since the Campbell-Toure Partnership met it's demise. Arsenal have never had a serious title challenge until now.
As a Leeds fan and season ticket holder I can that your spot on with Meslier he’s been dreadful all season. Can’t believe no one had took him out before now
Yes but there’s so many far worse players for your team. You’re seriously a cringe worthy fan base if you genuinely defend Aaronson (MLS is his level) for his “attitude”, Rutter, Bamford, Roca, McKennie (come on now he’s been rubbish, don’t just blame everybody else), Wöber and Struijk.
Can't always expect the goalkeeper to perform miracles when he's given no protection at all by the defence. For his age I would say he has overperformed up till now.
It's strange, as a Tottenham fan, I don't see Richarlison as a flop but more of someone I feel sorry for because he hasn't gotten a fair shot, but I guess he has to be a flop because of his output.
I'd probably say Son, has gotten a lot of chances but fell off a cliff this season
A good video...I had forgotten virtually all these players...
Mikkel Damsgaard for Brentford is a poor fit since it was known from the beginning, that he would be using most of this season to get back into fitness (and putting on some muscle), and not considered to be contesting for being regular first team starter this season (and even then he've actually mostly managed this in the tail-end of the season)
Much more probable name for Brentford would be Keane Lewis-Potter
Lewis-Potter has struggled due to injuries far worse and also due to Thomas Frank being a very strange human being who’s developed a sheer grudge, far more unjustified than Damsgaard (who’s been awful every time he’s played unlike Lewis-Potter). Surely Schade is a shout if you’re all complaining about Damsgaard? Proving pace and vibes aren’t enough to make you a good footballer for months now.
Very harsh to call Vinicus a flop. Back-up to our star player, stepped up and scored some important goals and has only improved over the season. Also did not cost us £9m.
Fulham flop should be Kevin Mbabu. Came in expecting to challenge Kenny Tete for RB position. Played a few games, had a massive falling out with Marco Silva and then left to rot in the reserves.
Now that's a waste of money.
Best German players in the premier league of all time. (Day 500)
I will not give up until the video is made or Alfie himself tells me to stop. Everyone else telling me that will be ignored.
If you don't believe my number, just go back to the previous videos. I'm at the bottom most of the time, but I'm there.
Lies you only started a week ago
@@bigstan5705 no, you're lying. Just check any old video from roughly 2 years ago ... lad is there.
Ballack is #1
I admire your persistence.
Everton fan here. Anthony Gordon is very VERY average at best (and is also a spoilt brat btw). Richy was our best player last season and its so sad that we squandered the good money we got for him. P.S The ENTIRE Everton squad are flops.
I don't mean to pile on Neal Maupay but he never scored at Brighton while getting a ton of chances, so I've no idea why Everton signed him thinking that he'd score goals. Surely that's what Everton needed, was someone to put the ball in the net. Works hard? Yes. But strikers ultimately are judged on goals.
Everton don't think much when signing players lol. They dont do them in a clever way, just based on v i b e s. And yeah, Maupay has gotten a lot of chances so he scored some at Brighton, even though his conversion rate has been poor and everyone was saying Brighton need someone better, but he has gotten a fair amount of goals because of that, so Everton, being the shambles that they are, thought he was actually good. For me he's championship standard
Alfie, do a video where nothing was expected of a player(previously unknown quantity) and they have exceeded expectation consistently without saying half of the Brighton team.
If English clubs stopped paying such ridiculous fees for all these players then it wouldn't look so bad as it does so its their own damn fault from paying such fees for so many of these players many who are aren't experienced at the highest level so doesn't justify the amout they are bought for
For Chelsea I think that Sterling is a good shout, given how it feels like the only thing he is still capable of doing is run very fast and pass sideways.
However considering the awful season we are having I think there are candidates better suited for this.
Aubameyang is already worse of a flop simply because he managed to play such an unimportant role in this team, that he get un-registered for the CL and it's not unlikely that Chelsea will let him go for free in the summer, despite him still having a contract.
If Broja wouldn't have injured himself so badly I think it's safe to say that Auba wouldn't have featured more than 10mins collectively in all games played in 2023 so far. Without Broja, Aubameyang remains the only senior striker in the squad, yet he is unsuccessful to get past Havertz, Sterling or whoever else is put there in the starting lineup. The only thing somewhat rescuing him here is that he was cheap.
He would be my flop of the season.
Do a video on biggest knockout competition comebacks including playoffs given that Sheff wed overturned a 4-0 deficit to go through on pens in the league 1 playoff semi
As poor as Meslier has been Patrick Bamford has to be featured, he has gone from talks of him becoming England's #9 to Championship quality within 12 months
Let's face it in any other time Arsenal would have indeed have had a fantastic season but when you're up against Man City even that's not good enough to win you the title such is the insane strength in depth of the city squad who can basically field 2 title winning squads that Arsenal simply can't compete with and neither can anyone else in the EPL and unfortunately that doesn't look like changing any time soon
Not true mate . City don't have 2 teams . They have players who can play at every position and most flexible
@grealish there's basically no drop off in quality whenever they pick up injuries they just continue on winning week in week out there's really no difference in quality between their first and second choice squads
Next season will show if it was just luck or Arsenal does have a good team,my guess its luck like the red mancs with Ole finishing 2nd,next season when Newcastle will be stronger,Liverpool back from whatever went on with them ,Spurs stop with its spurs legacy & Chelsea not in the lower half + whatever will happen with the red mancs,hate me or not but if the others return to form i dont see Arsenal in top4.
So everyone else is gonna get stronger asides Arsenal? 🤷
@@ierbutza21 No way can you dismiss Arsenal this season as just luck, they have overachieved which is a tribute to Arteta but they are a young and growing team. Need to increase squad depth to play Champions League but I'm sure they will be in top 4 next season, can't see them going backwards now.
As Liverpool -fan, I agree that Fabinho took a deep dive. But at least honorable mention should go to Fabio Carvalho, who´s been mostly absent. For couple months I even forgot he was in the club!
How could it not be coutinho at villa 22 games 1 goal no assists
Good article. I'll let your choice of Anthony Gordon at Newcastle slide but you overlook his significant improvement in end product towards the end of the season. Comes with getting used to the club, its players and the new style of play .... so not exactly surprising
Rashford bounced back??? He's been shocking this season. A few goals for a short spell and now he's back to the standards of the usual over hyped English player
1:11: Arsenal: Sambi Lokonga
3:17: Aston Villa: Leon Bailey
4:46: Bournemouth: Ryan Fredericks
6:22: Brentford: Mikkel Damsgaard
7:47: Brighton: Deniz Undav
9:05: Chelsea: Raheem Sterling
11:12: Crystal Palace: Jean-Philippe Mateta
12:21: Everton: Neal Maupay
13:42: Fulham: Kevin Mbabu
14:54: Leeds: Illan Meslier
16:24: Leicester City: Wilfred Ndidi
17:43: Liverpool: Fabinho
19:01: Manchester City: Kalvin Phillips
20:11: Manchester United: Jadon Sancho
22:01: Newcastle United: Anthony Gordon
23:24: Nottingham Forest: Jesse Lingard
24:27: Southampton: Mislav Orsic
26:02: Tottenham: Richarlison
26:55: West Ham: Gianluca Scamacca
28:21: Wolves: Goncalo Guedes
Imagine the collective shock/eyeroll when that flop Richarlison not only made it into the Brazil WC squad, but started! Were Brazil really THAT bereft of talent?
Seems that way these recent years. Even Fred made it into the WC.
Yep Brasil are not a great team anymore, every national team has bad players now
Anyone with a brain would not have been shocked at Richarlison's inclusion in their squad and xi, he's still playing very well and regularly scoring for Brazil
@@yourmum955 what? You get picked for the national team based on your CLUB form, not to fill a gap like Walcott in 2006. If you really believe Richarlison was picked solely for his club form then I wish you well in life.
Richarlison was Brazil topscorer in this cycle, nobody here was surprised, the second option was play Neymar or Rodrygo as a false 9, but that wasnt trained enough
Gabriel Jesus is absolutely hated in Brazil because of his previous cycle 2014-2018
Mopay sale probably some of the best business Brighton have done this decade. Had the best ( well not bad) 3 years out of him then sold for almost what he cost. Had a a knack of blasting over from 6 yards out.
How you include Bailey instead of Couthinio is insane.
very
He also neglects the part where Bailey has been doing alot more defensive work which Emery has made known. Instead he makes it seems like he isn't doing great factoring injury and tactical requirements
28:09 Alfie mate you didn’t have to do Thilo Kehrer like that 🤣🤣 he’s been a bit shit for us but can occasionally be alright
You should do a video on how Stockport County have had a crazy last 10 years and could get back to back promotions.
I honestly don't think Heung-min Son deserves a mention even, putting his season down to individual underperformance ignores the fact that until Ryan Mason become manager, Conte/Stellini's tactics instructed Son to play almost exclusively in a back-to-goal role, to allow for Perisic to make the forward runs that Son had so much success making last season. If you coach a player to avoid playing to his strengths, he will likely underperform compared to a season where he played more of his normal role. Something to consider.
His performance against Aston Villa kinda summed up his season though. He's largely anonymous for most of the game and wasted most of the chances that came his way
@Ravage27 yeah, goes without saying hes lost a lot of his confidence this year. Tactically, playing Perisic as a LWB was never going to allow Son to play to his full potential. Its easy to look at lack of impact in games but there are many valid reasons. I'd argue several spurs players in roles they should succeed in have been much more underwhelming this year. Lloris and Hojbjerg are easily worse this year
7 best transfer jumps (Ex: Verratti went from Pescara to PSG, Zanetti from Banfield to Inter Milan)
Moreno Torricelli wins by a country mile. He was playing for Serie D side Caratese and signed for Juventus!
Sambi's career at Arsenal is definitely over. he couldn't even start regularly at palace and with potential recruitments in the summer including rice and caicedo, i think it's better he return to belgium or play somewhere else where he can be a guaranteed first team starter. fabio viera on the other hand has been dreadful this season. he has always been the weakest link in the first 11 whenever he plays. he can't link a pass nor defend.
Fabio Vieira was sucess at Porto why not at arsenal. Could it be the coach?
As a Forest fan, I go with Dennis over Lingard. Lingard got injured at the point we thought he was starting to deliver and it just hasn't happened for him. He's seemingly always been a great part of team spirit. Dennis has been really frustrating in games, hasn't ever really delivered and just feels like he's doing his own thing. Lingard is on a one year, shot to nothing deal, Dennis we paid £10m+. You can forgive someone for trying and failing, but it's unforgivable if you don't really give a s**t
hey HITC, I have a video content recommendation for you guys, can you list the top 10 or whatever number the best assistant managers are right now?
Thanks
You should do a video on transfers who people think are flops, but the player just isn't getting any playing time because the coach is incompetent.
0:44 “that was a short introduction from me” while showing Insigne. Nice touch.