Worst Premier League XI

park the bus said:
Sanogo easily. Benteke apart from his first season he took the club for an expensive ride. Max Meyer, total pony.
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Benteke under Pardew, when we actually got some crosses in and fed ball through was superb..then along came Royball where he was left isolated, pretty much the same as JP under Roy.
Under Glasner Benteke would have been awesome.
Max was another who suffered under Roy and never given a chance until his confidence was also shattered
 
Seagles said:
Love the idea for this thread! here's my 2 cents

Manager: Frank De Boer
GK: Wayne Hennessey
RB: Timothy Fosu-Mensah
CB: Martin Kelly
CB: Jairo Riedewald
LB: Zeki Fryers
LM: Max Meyer
RM: Jordon Mutch
CM: Barry Bannan
CM: Adlène Guedioura
CF: Alexander Sørloth
CF: Yaya Sanogo

a couple of loans in there which is cheating I know
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Martin Kelly? Really??
 
Seagles said:
Love the idea for this thread! here's my 2 cents

Manager: Frank De Boer
GK: Wayne Hennessey
RB: Timothy Fosu-Mensah
CB: Martin Kelly
CB: Jairo Riedewald
LB: Zeki Fryers
LM: Max Meyer
RM: Jordon Mutch
CM: Barry Bannan
CM: Adlène Guedioura
CF: Alexander Sørloth
CF: Yaya Sanogo

a couple of loans in there which is cheating I know
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Would agree with most of that list except Sorloth. He's largely done well since Palace and you don't play up front for A Madrid if you are pony. We just didn't use him or play to his strengths.
 
Two more disappointments: Padovano (later sentenced to 8 years for drug smuggling) and when we signed Sakho he wasn't near what he was on loan.
 
Given that is the worst XI since we got promoted back to the PL in 2013, I think cost needs to come into it.

Benteke at 30m with really just 1 decent season
Nketiah at 25m who has been either poor or injured.

Never recouped the cost on Benteke and unlikely to recoup the outlay Nketiah.

Sorloth, although poor, we did somehow get out money back on him.

Jordan Mutch cost something like 6m and we gave him away, whilst someone like Max Meyer was a free transfer (albeit high wages).
 
Manager: Frank De Boer
GK: Steve Mandanda
RB: Timothy Fosu-Mensah
CB: Brede Hangaland
CB: Jairo Riedewald
LB: Zeki Fryers
LM: Max Meyer
RM: Jordon Mutch
CM: Johnny Williams
CM: Adlène Guedioura
CF: Fraizer Campbell
CF: Patrick Bamford
 
Canterbury Palace said:
GK: Wayne Hennessey
LB: Dean Moxey
RB: Martin Kelly
CB: Adrian Mariappa
CB: Brede Hangeland
CM: Jordon Mutch
CM: Max Meyer
RW: Jason Puncheon
LW: Bakary Sako
FW: Yaya Sanogo
FW: Emmanuel Adebayor

Manager: Neil Warnock

Since we got promoted and with a minimum of 10 league appearances, which filters out many of the absolute worst players like Bamford, Campana etc.

Obviously some of these seem extremely harsh, like Puncheon and Kelly, but it's mainly as most of the players in these positions have been strong for us or haven't played often enough to qualify.
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Hangeland done a job for us
 
We can't say Rakip because no one knows anything about him. Does he even exist?
People have forgotten Zeki Fryers or whatever his name was but he did seem to exist. Off the top of my head, he played maybe three games or something. He was crap and a very poor signing.
 
cryrst said:
Not sure on sakho. Certainly gave a shift most times I saw him
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He did but there was a lot of expectation when he signed and he didn't hit the heights he did when he was on loan. Probably unfair to lump him in with Padovano whose heights were pretty much depths.
 
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