After compiling my Premier League Team of the Season I thought I should compile another team, the flops of the year, the ones that make you sigh when you see them warming up on the sidelines. Not necessarily the worst players but the ones who have flattered to deceive, regressed or ruined their legacy. I’ve decided to echo the formation of my Team of the Season, albeit with three more conventional forward players.

GK – Wojciech Szczesny.

Arsenals former number one has found himself riding the pine since Ospina took his place in the first team. A player never shy to speak his mind he’s sadly become a goalkeeper more known for Facebook comments and dressing room selfies than saves.

RB – Rafael Da Silva.

The fans favourite had risen to prominence by the end of the Sir Alex Ferguson regime at Old Trafford. Since then, the clubs only natural right fullback, through a mixture of injury and an inability to learn from his mistakes, has found himself out of contention for a first team berth behind a right winger, Antonio Valencia, and a centre half, Phil Jones.

CB – Jonny Evans.

It’s no slight on his ability to say Evans was a secondary figure to Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic, two of the Premier League’s best ever centre-halves. However after briefly becoming the teams number one centre-back and turning in a number of great performances he has regressed to such an extent under Van Gaal that he’s now not only behind calamity merchants Smalling and Jones but also behind Paddy McNair in the pecking order. He’s lost his starting spot, his confidence and his status as one of the leagues better defenders.

CB – Vincent Kompany.

His inclusion is perhaps a little harsh, and a result of injuries, but this season, when he’s been fit, Kompany has looked a shadow of his former self. He’s performed at such a low level that Martin Demichelis is now Man City’s best centre-back. His tackling is a split second later than it used to be, and it looks like injuries have taken their toll, perhaps terminally.

LB – Glen Johnson.

Leftback is the hardest position to fill in this team of uninspiring failures. Whilst he’s a rightback by trade he has been played on the left a surprising amount of times for such a terrible footballer. Glen Jay as his detractors have long pointed out is a defender who cannot defend, more known for his forays forward than any ability to stop an attacker. Thankfully Nathaniel Clyne must have surely put an end to his longstanding status as an England starter.

CM – Yaya Toure.

Yaya is one half of Britain’s favourite double act since the Chuckle Brothers. Infinitely superior to his brother as a footballer he was the perfect Premier League midfielder, but now he seemingly can’t be bothered. Having tried to laughably force a move away from the Etihad through birthdaycake-gate he has continued to sulk his way through the season. Pellegrini’s continued insistence on playing himself in a midfield two only further highlights Toure’s carefree attitude to tracking back and defending. On his day he’s unplayable and one of the very best, sadly for Man City he is now disinterested and needs to be moved on this summer

CM – Steven Gerrard.

Gerrard has not been the same player since his fall against Chelsea at the end of last season, his reputation slipping by the game. A lacklustre World Cup and another personal embarrassment in his 40 second red card against Man United, has proven that Gerrard is a spent force. He was once Liverpool’s talisman but now Steven Gerrard is at best, a player severely on the wane, and at worst, a distraction who is hindering his side. Expect an England recall bandwagon to begin once he scores a brace against an MLS side featuring former Championship and League One players next season.

CM – Jack Wilshere.

Glass-ankled Wilshere is no longer England’s prodigy, he lost that to Ross Barkley, who then lost it to Harry Kane. The sad truth is that Wilshere today, whilst still being a fine player, is no better than he was when he burst onto the scene with Arsenal. He’s not developed as a footballer, and injuries seem to stop any momentum he gets.

STR – Mario Balotelli.

A player who has seemingly not only wasted his natural talent but also wasted all of the public’s goodwill towards him for his off-field antics. He was the ultimate LadBible footballer, a player with highlight reel potential and enough “top banter” to make thousands of memes. He’s not showed as much as a glimpse of his footballing ability during his spell at Liverpool, sulking on the bench, sulking on the pitch, all this without even having the courtesy to do anything funny to make into a Vine.

STR – Radamel Falcao.

The Columbian moved to Manchester United with an incredible reputation after a summer rehabbing a knee injury. So far he’s failed to live up to his billing, stumbling around the Old Trafford pitch like an old boxer, too proud to admit he’s past his best.

STR – Didier Drogba.

He’s about to win a league title but Drogba’s return to Chelsea has not been a success. Watching the Drog has been a painful experience this season, gone is the fearsome striker of his last spell, having been replaced by a slow, lumbering imitation. When he’s been up front for Chelsea this season it’s been like watching Premier League Years on slow-mo. The results are the same, Chelsea win, but Drogba is at half pace. Sadly each minute he is on the pitch, looking like he’s running through treacle, is just another mark against his legacy, an incredible legacy he should have left alone after winning a Champions League with his last touch of a ball for Chelsea.

Manager – Brendan Rodgers.

Last year’s flavour of the month isn’t finding it so easy without Luis Suarez. He’s spent the Suarez cash awfully, and has assembled a team with plenty of quantity but no real quality. He’s failed in the transfer market, having lost targets like Alexis Sanchez to Arsenal, and has been left with a team of second-best players, not quite good enough for the elite teams. His third season has been a disaster, and barring an incredible turnaround will find himself out of the Champions League next season, having undone all of the good work of last season in the process.

If you have any thoughts then leave your comments below, and remember to check out my Premier League Team of the Season.