Alfie’s delaying the best left wingers of the 2000’s vid because he’s still trying to justify a Hull City player being top.

Are we not going to mention the fact that Richarlison had more yellows for celebrating goals that were then disallowed than he actually did goals?

There is a stat that Højlund is the striker that receives the least amount of passes from his teammates in the PL. Even strikers at relegation teams get better service than him. I’m not saying that he is one of the top strikers in the premier league, but he is being massively let down by his team mates, and Erik Ten Hag’s system as a whole.

I raised an eyebrow at the transfer fee, but I will absolutely defend Hojlund. Dude is supremely talented and hard working, but gets absolutely no service from players like Antony. He has had some huge misses, but imagine the pressure of being 20 and having this kind of pressure on your shoulders. He doesn't even have someone like Cavani to relieve some of the pressure and to impart wisdom and support. Who the hell is he supposed to learn from, Martial?

Might be biased as a Dane but Højlund has not exactly been given many opportunities from hes team mates in Man United.

To be fair to Hojlund, he is the UCL’s joint highest scorer this season with 5, joint with Haaland, Morata and Griezmann. He has more UCL goals than Mbappe this season

I remember Shevchenko being pretty bad after signing for Chelsea for 51m euros in 2006 I think it was? The fall off from his Milan form was shocking to say the least 😅 What a player he was for Milan though!

Alfie, please consider doing a video on what's going on in Norwegian football. Next season, we will have an interesting situation with our three Oslo-clubs, namely Vålerenga, Lyn and KFUM (colloquially called "Kåffa") Vålerenga: One of our biggest clubs in Norwegian football, and without doubt the biggest Oslo-club. Vålerenga got relegated for the first time in 23 years. It's fair to say it came as a shock to most people. They were aiming for Europe before the season began. Vålerenga has a modern stadium with 17K in capacity (may not sound like a lot, but our biggest stadium here is Ullevaal, with a capacity of 26K. Most stadiums have a capacity below 10K) Lyn: Lyn is an interesting story in and of itself. This club was liquidated in 2010, and sent directly from the top division, all the way down to the 5th tier. They've effectively managed to bounce back from the depths of obscurity, and are now newly promoted to the second division, where they will play their arch-rivals, Vålerenga, for the first time in over a decade KFUM: Lastly, "Kåffa". This club is weird, where to begin.... well, KFUM literally stands for YMCA - yes, this club is christian. They don't have a proper pitch or facilities in general. They play their matches at a typical sunday league standard pitch/field. They've never played in the top division before, but secured promotion to the top flight just now Other than that, Bodø/Glimt is still going strong, Molde seems to make a resurgence, and Rosenborg have to take care now not to follow in Vålerenga's footsteps Next season should be exciting 😊

If Hojlund had been playing for City or Liverpool and had managed zero goals and assists in 13, imagine the fun United fans would be having 😂.

Jozy Altidore for Sunderland. A whopping 1 goal in 42 appearances for a striker.

Thought Diego Forlan might feature in this. Didn’t score until his 19th game for United.

Please do - "7 teams that managed to lose the championship they almost won". Like Newcastle in 1996 that lost the championship despite leading 12 with points gap, or Botafogo this year who led with 13 points, but still somehow finished fifth

Ciro Immobile at Borussia Dortmund. He went to a team that finished second in the league a season prior and almost got them relegated

Hojlund one is so unfair. Been at the club 4 months, 20 years old, no league goals but 5 in the Champions League.

Got a video idea: 7 players who padded their season goal totals with penalties, and conversely, 7 players with highest goal totals without taking a penalty (again in a single season).

Make a video of "The 7 worst run of form" any team has ever experienced. Like Hull City in 2020 Losing 16 consecutive games and winning 6 out of 60 possible points.

Alfie, please do a _What On Earth is Going On_ about East African football. Why is it so mediocre compared to the rest of the continent? It's been this way for ages!

with 5 goals in the CL I say money well spent, honestly I do, he is fighting chasing and running (compared to the french one they still have at the club), I'll take Højlund any day over the french because I know he will show fighting spirit

Balotelli at Liverpool was a weird one because he genuinely tried and behaved like a model citizen. I disagree that he was disinterested, but just had back luck and couldn’t score…When we let him go, that was the end of him and a genuine shame as he had it all.

I loved super mario, such a supreme deickhead and it was absolutely hilarious, him failing at liverpool broke my heart. On the other hand, torres being the best striker in the world at liverpool, and then a joke at chelsea, made my soul smile.

Richarlisons start in Tottenham was so weird. He didn't really play bad most of the time. In fact, he was one of maybe 3 people who actually looked lively on the pitch last season. But when it came to scoring, he became invisible. Hope what we're seeing now is an actual comeback and not just a short spurt of good form

>Says "A chai tea see seven" >never shows one You cannot silence my protest.

Hojlund just dont get any service at all, and sometimes he's been unlucky too He is still talented and I love his spirit But at the moment only Shaw is good at crossing, others are either shite or not willing to cross Especially Dalot, in the Bayern game he rather shoot from a shit angle than passing to Hojlund

As always, love your content. I think the more recent signings like Onana and the Chelsea signings need a little more time and context to be considered truly awful. I think in the end, Onana will bed in once ManU gets their house in order. The Blues signings on the other hand...

13:15 Important to note that Hazard started to pick up his form and looking like his old self in his first season until meunier purposefully folued him and broke his ankle

It took 10 matches for our greatest ever striker to get his first ever goal, whilst his next in the league was a further 8 games afterwards. Only at the turn of the year 2000 would it start to be realised how good he was.

I can’t believe Sanchez to Utd isn’t on this list, great video nonetheless!

Yes thank god Alfie pronounced Milan properly

Didier Drogba's first season at Chelsea was pretty underwhelming tbf.

Difficult to make this statement as a super super fanboy of Torres. His knee injury before going to Chelsea completely obliterated his speed, agility and self-confidence. Something that rumours say was known to the medical department at Liverpool which is why they were happy to let him go. Rumours say they fully knew he would never be able to come back to his full strength… I think if he wasn’t contributing tremendously to the teams spirit and game he would have been shipped of far earlier. Nevertheless his early time at Chelsea was bad and it made my heart bleed as a fan. That ManU game in particular gives me nightmare to this day

Eden Hazard's fall in Madrid is heartbreaking ngl to see someone fall so far so fast I know he didn't train while he was at Chelsea and that caught up with him but still hard to watch.

1:55 - that Freddy Adu joke will never get old :D

Danny Drinkwater looks like a bargain compared to what Chelsea have spent ludicrous sums on since (and I'm a Blues fan)...

Jovic did actually pretty ok as a reserve so far, now when Giroud was suspended he got 2G 1A when he started in his place, yes it was 12 games but only 430min. He does what Milan got him for imo, sure worse than his best years but bang for buck wise absolutely ok.

Video idea for the near future. Can you do a US Open Cup video with the recent announcement of MLS first teams pulling out?

10:07 "Shaw-ly then" 😂

The moral of the story is; Don’t buy a player off the back of one good season.

I'M JUST WAITING FOR A MIRACLE TO COMEEEEEE, I KNOW THAT THINGS COULD BE BETTER, I'M TRYING TO KEEP IT TOGETHER

Horrible moment to mention richarlison in this context, he‘s actually been doing really well since his surgery

i've seen rasmus play in graz when he was at sturm graz before atalanta, he is an incredible striker but his teamates and ten Haag are not "using" him in the correct way, he needs speed an through passes he can chase after, or crosses from the wingers, but Man'Us wingers are cutting in and shot themselves... i think he is underrated and can deliver much more, he has a lot of potential in my opinion, and he is still just 20!

Roberto Soldado - always scored goals for fun in La Liga the supposed best league in the world, but only scored 1 single goal in an entire EPL season.

On the criteria of the video, Torres at #1 is fair. The only game where he resembled anything of 50mil pound quality in his first calendar year was that Man Utd game you mentioned & even Chelsea fans forget his excellent performance (capped with a gorgeous, scoop chip goal) cos of 'that' miss. In the span of one game you could see his confidence returning & then NOPE, with one miss it was back to square one lol

Quite surprised not to see Philip Coutinio or Andy Carroll on this list

Saido Berahino was a really weird one - he was never a prolific goal scorer, but Stoke were adamant they wanted him (fans weren't - i work with a lot of them and they didn't get it either!)...to the point they put numerous bids in for him and, IIRC, he eventually signed for them despite being overweight, injured, having served a ban for failing a random drug test, and stated himself he wasn't in the right place to play - in fact, I'm sure he's one of the only players even Crouch (considered to be Mr Nice) has said something negative about!

He saw this surely

Manchester United pay top shelf prices for middle shelf players. Højlund is certainly better than he has shown this far, but for that kind of money they could have gotten 3 Bonifaces (9 goals/ 8 assists in 15 games) for example. They always make the wrong decision. For a decade now. What does that mean again, when you don't learn from your mistakes? They should have kept Rangnick or at least get a couple of the players he recommended.

How Steve Bruce is a multimillionaire is beyond me he’s been sacked at every club he’s been at

You should make a video like this, but only with the players who had a lot of sucess after their horrible start

Everyone out there have a great day

Sad to see my goat fernando torres as no.1, his liverpool and euros impacts will always be remembered more thankfully 🙏

Quite sad when you see such magnificent players as Torres and Hazard become such poor players. They both had bad injuries and many will point to that as the reason they lost form but I believe it was a crushing lack of confidence that finished them. Look at their games for Chelsea and Real respectively and although they may not be in peak physical shape as they once were ( difficult to tell) it's more obvious that their confidence in their ability is shot to pieces. A top player has to have supreme confidence in what they are doing and you cannot fake confidence no matter how hard you try.

Alfie sounds so happy when he can finally mention Danny Drinkwater again

Barcelona should be the winner. After Neymar's departure, they wasted an enormous cash used from Neymar's transfer to buy the likes of Dembele, Coutinho, and Griezmann, with all of them being flopped with Barcelona (Coutinho being the worst one, having struggled with badass injuries as well). Not only that, it also contributed to the club's incredible decline, with the club suffering two humiliating UCL defeats (0-4 to Liverpool and 2-8 to Bayern Munich) and the pandemic that really collapsed the whole club in terms of financial, which led to the big departure of Luis Suarez, Ivan Rakitic, and Lionel Messi.

Video on Barry Venison please

The only thing I remember about Torres at Chelsea was Gary Neville making a sex noise when Torres scored in the Champions league

tbf hojlund has been pretty unlucky also his first game vs arsenal he came in as a sub and i remember around 2-3 incidents where he was unmarked but rashford didn't pass the ball to him in his first competitive debut vs brighton he was again unmarked on so many occasions but he hardly got any pass and that one freaking pass he got he scored the goal which was unfortunately ruled out because the ball was just outside when rashford passed him, just watch rashford's highlights vs brighton he was terrible and selfish that day in the game against crystal palace again he almost scored a goal in an empty net but ball was cleared by a goal line clearance in the game vs luton their gk made an incredible save while in the game vs liverpool he messed up his shot his 5 goals in ucl have been also pretty weird only 2 were actual assists other 3 being goalkeeping errors or an individual effort by him he needs services from wingers, but till there is rashford and antony on the wings he wont be getting any service he is just 20 he hardworks a lot on the pitch but needs to be a little more intelligent

I hoped this was a list for players this season.

Højlund has 5 in 5 & is the youngest player in Prem to do it. Service is low still but he is better

No Antony? He’s been horrifically unproductive for United.

Still mind in pub n Torres scoring that goal in CL for Chelsea as take that lol. But boy was he a phenom at pool

You could do 7 at Chelsea alone: Mudryk, Fernandez, Cucurella, Caicedo, Sanchez, Lukaku and Lavia, among others.

Robbie Kean in Liverpool is missing here lol

I spent half of this video writing lengthy justification for Fernando Torres to be featured in a part 2 of this... Time as well spent as Torres' spell at Stomford Bridge

Hojlund is so young! I really wouldn't worry about him yet

Alfie is carrying HITC

im curious why you didn't choose to include ndombele, he's certainly the worst for us

#thepeopleschannel a video on the Bangladesh premier league and the rise of Bashundhara kings would be good A team who went into the top flight after promotion and won the last four league titles now! Are they the next Newcastle? Are they a team to keep a eye on next few years? Thanks Alfie 😊

I still dont understand why people always bring up price 6 months in to a 4 or 5 year contract, from what some people say they make it sound like u have to pay it each season 😂😂

I accidentally bought a winger on football manager and even he scored 6 goals in the prem

Peter Crouch at Liverpool gets my shout

I think it would have been more interesting if it was players who had terrible start but turned it around. Now it was just bit terrible signings list which wasn't as interesting and similiar lists have been made a lot.

Correction - It would not be nice to see Richarlison's form pick up as he is an extremely unlikeable individual.

In normal life it's hard to see how anybody gets over spending literally tens of millions on a player that ends up doing nothing. Some of the signings are so bad, for so much real money, it's a wonder nobody is ruined over it. It seems most have zero shame about throwing obscene amounts of money at complete garbage. Most even carry on recommending players as if they know anymore than the average punter.

Richirenaissance 😂😂👌🏾

I’m hoping Collymore is in here… let’s see!

What about Coutinho to Barcelona? I expected it to be in the 7

no Griezmann? no Coutinho?

Going from Suarez who could score a goal out of nothing and was expected to do something magical every game to Balotelli was pain

What about Pogba & Maguire? Can we pls have a video about Maltese Football ⚽ Thank you

hows 7 goals in 6 games sounds like?is he still a flop,or you guys wana wait till he reach 20 goals at the end of the season?

theres a reason why so many attackers have flopped when joining united, no midfield service

I remember I was round the pub with a few mates, news was on before the football (euro 2012), and they had the subtitles on "Spain would have had more goals, but Fernando Torres is still sh*t... short of match practice" flashed up and I had to step outside...

Torres didn't make any meaningful contributions to chelsea 2012 champions League win. Chelsea would have still gone through even if he didn't score against barca

Bare in mind hojlund is playing infront of mctominay and with wingers who never pass or cross the ball

Make a video about Further Adu

I don't know where you got the 80M€ for Renato Sanches but Bayern signed him for 35M€ including all the add-ons, I think that putting him on the list is harsh

Hey! I've got an idea! Why not talk about a couple reasonably priced signings who did very well for their clubs? I'll start - Christian Pulisic, for *all 3 of his clubs.* Yes, even at Chelsea! He did better there than any of these insanely overpriced mistakes. How he ended there says more about Chelsea than him. Especially considering how well he's doing for Milan 😁

Can you believe that they sign Tommy talyor for 29'000£ but he scored 116 goals for man utd fun fact he was 26 wen he deid in the munich air disaster

Hoping to not find Havertz slander

surprised Alexis Sanchez didn’t get a look in

Could have filled this entirely with Ted Boehly and Glazer signings and expanded this to a top twenty.

Well, I told you ever since the summer time, and even before that, fro January on, foreveryone have began noticing him in LaDea shirt, and started talking about him making a huge transfer, either in AC Milan, r in Man-Utd... I've told you all!"The boy is a rough diamond, and in time he'll become a superb N9" But, He's gonna need at least 1, better even 2 more in Atalanta, where he'll play under Gasperini (who's MUCH, MUCH BETTER COACH than Ten Hag, who would've develop him into formidable fore), both in Serie A (where each round is dog eat dog for points, plus, he would've been playing EL, and next season perhaps again (for LaDea of course) again in UCL! And that would've done a huge impact on the 19 year ld kid, preparing him for a huge transfer! On the other hand, leaving to M-Utd., a team with a clear direction (at any evel of the game, infront, or behind the scenes)... but still, there were Man-U fans saying: "By ten, he;d be wrth way ver 100 mil. Better get him now!" WELL, YOU'VE ASKED FR IT, YOU GOT IT! I'm just glad that my AC Milan ppl know much better than Man-Us ppl, not to throw money as if they're growing on the trees! But the saddest thing is that it might destroy the boy's career (as it did to so many),although I persoonally think, it may only slow his progress down, not destroy it. And if he's smart enough, go bakc to a team in Serie A, ike Bologna, who are fulfilled with young talents from Scotland, Italy, Netherlandsd.... and their superb young coach, Tiago Motta (again, a smart guy who didn't ran after money in Inter and PSG) , who misses exactly a classic N9 to his great offensive & young team, that could very well end up in Top 4 (of course, everyone's predicting that this Bologna team will be taken apart in the summer regardless if they finish in Top 4, or at 7th place and in Conference League. But, that remains to be seen! They are financially stable just starting to rebuild their new modern stadium... s I don't think they;ll go down so easily. Especially having the former Atalanta;s chief scout from this season (the man who turned LaDea into one of the members of Italian "7 Sisters", pushing Fiorentina from the spot 10 years ago, playing in UCL for 4 years in a row, reached UCL semis.... so, I don't think Bologna will sell out their team ust like that! However, the point is - LET YOUNG PLAYERS REMAIN IN THE MID-TABLE CLUBS (with ambitions to play in Europe) THEY'RE THRIWING, forat least 2, 3 seasons, before you take them to a club where they can go up even further more! And definitely NOT IN A CLUB LIKE MAN-U, where the entire team will be put on his back, to bring them out of the whole they were in for more than 10 years! Do you think that if Haaland went to Utd, even scoring 60 goals there too, he would've taken taken them to a better place than what they truly are - a team lower than Galatasaray, Copenhagen.... So, better let kids like the young Dane to play for Bologna, and after 2 years, bring him back, full of confidence and self-esteem! And do that s**t to other kids! Joshua Zirkzee is the one for whom I'm afraid the most, after the great performances he began showing off in Bologna this (his 2nd) year on the team, forning a formidable duo with Ferguson and Orsolini and Saelemakers!

"Every player contracted to Chelsea not named Thiago Silva or Cole Palmer"

I love your work but Suarez's first name is Luís ("Loo-EESS"), not Louie or Louis. He's not French :)

Jovic type player needs WC wingers n number 10s to roll ball across line for tap ins lol. Him n so many Chelsea players hv been so underwhelming after an Amazing season

I am surprised none of Barcelona signings after Neymar made this list

Is 7 goal involvements in first 17 games "on fire"? I mean, just the fact that stat is goal involvements and not just goals kinda says no for a CF and, once again, being old enough to have watched it happen.. Balotelli did not start "on fire" at City, he was woeful from day 1 and got a couple tap ins all season.

Good video Alfie players were flopping this season

Some of these turned out okay though , Pogba was woeful at utd courtinho was pathetic at barca, sanchez forgot how play football at utd, Forlan took nearly half a season net a goal, Stoke manage spend 18m on imbula Lukaku at Chelsea both times flopped, Asvaldo I think his name was joining the saints he was shocking

Still waiting for Alfie to show Nicky Butt as he says "but".