The ENTIRE Chelsea Team Deserves an Honorable Mention …. 🕳. ⚽️

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.

That Leon Bailey shout is outrageous, with Coutinho at Villa💀

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

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

7 teams which ended on a high after having seemingly disastrous seasons (i.e. Sevilla, West Ham, Liverpool)

I love how Richarlison first goal was ruined just half a minute later by Jota.

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.

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.

Including Undav is insane. It's his first season and he has been in insane form for past 4 weeks

Marc Cucurella is feeling incredibly relieved for not making the pick 😅

Cucaracha over Sterling. 60 million and has given absolutely nothing back during the entire season.

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

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.

Philip coutinho wins hands down at the villa At least bailey is available and contributed to the team

How on Earth are you going to choose only one at Chelsea?

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.

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 ..

As a Chelsea fan, i am ready to see the whole team on this list🥲🥲

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

Can we acknowledge that Alfie has used a video for the second time in the history of the channel, instead of still images?

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.

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

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.

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/

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).

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.

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?

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.

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??

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.

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

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.

Alfie, would you consider making a preview of Luton v Coventry, a run-through of each of their seasons with context and stuff? - James

Could you do a video on a combined 11 of the best players outside europes top 5 leagues

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!

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!

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

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

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.

Your deliveries for lines like 22:49 are just devastating

how was villa not coutinho baileys actiually been decent

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.

I think Bailey has proved abit better since emery came in so I wuld say it’s coutinho

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.

question lad at 17:11 why is there a picture of Soumare there while youre talking about Ndidi hahahaha

The Newcastle comment was stunning, well said 👌

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

Other than some recent matches, Meslier has been great this season and I hate that so many football fans have recency bias over everything

Proper comment: knew it was coming, and you addressed the inevitable storm of objections. My counterpoint would be Jamaal Lascelles, who just cannot get a game in a first-team shirt this season, but did anyone really expect him to after about November with Schar and Botman in the form they're in?

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

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

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.

Love your videos, Alfie. You're an absolute legend...bit harsh on Undav though...?

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.

Babe wake up new hitch sevens video is out today

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 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!

That Kehrer bit was brutal, but also something I totally agree with. He's always seemed very underwhelming during the bunch of games I watched him at PSG, with dumb back passes and generally showing nothing useful. I didn't think he'd be a good signing for West Ham either, but to be fair he'd be on the bench if they had their full team (although I think Aguerd has been bad too)

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

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

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

Harsh on Kehrer, had a good few mistakes early on but he's been immense the last few games

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.

I think for Villa, Digne deserves a dishonourable mention.

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

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.

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.

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.

A good video...I had forgotten virtually all these players...

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

You should do a video on how Stockport County have had a crazy last 10 years and could get back to back promotions.

Regardless of price, your mate is right. Sambi Lokonga was turning into Guendouzi 2.0. Viera is still developing but has some great touches and has a great combination with Martinelli.

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.

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.

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?

Can anyone help me? What is that video with the two guys who shake hands very aggressively? I saw it an hitc video once, but I just can't find it. Not tuchel and conte obv lol Thanks in advance

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

How could it not be coutinho at villa 22 games 1 goal no assists

Great video but I was mildly horrified by the switch from the beloved "should you wish to do so" at the end.

Im a Liverpool supporter and for 3/4 of the Season you could have picked nearly the whole team. Its like the ball caught covid and they didn't want to go near it and they kept giving it away non stop and no one had any fight in them. Just a shame it took them so long to sort the problem out. They still need a mini overhaul in the team though and with 4 players leaving also, they basically need at least half a dozen new players next season. Let's see though if our owners want to cough up the cash.

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

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.

"We should know by now much better than to expect much of Antony Martial." Ouch! Not wrong though. Incidentally, as a Newcastle fan I can't disagree with your inclusion of Anthony Gordon. I certainly hope that he comes good for us next season, but he's not earned his fee yet, that is for sure.

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.

Some managers need to take blame for buying playings and not giving them game time or playing them completely the wrong way. Happens over and over that a player is on fire for one team and is bought for lots of money then expected to 'adapt' to a different role, maybe out of position in a new team. When he struggles he's labelled a failure....

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

As a Newcastle fan I completely agree with Gordon being selected and I assume the majority of not all toon fans would agree as well. Hoping for good things next season though 🤞

Could you make this with different leagues? 😄 I would LOVE to see how underwhelming Moise Kean is at Juve since his comeback at your lists 😅 Or make a manager version of European managers, Max Allegri is very worth it to make it into the list 😂

please do a video on crawley town if you haven’t already

"Because i am a cruel and mean-spirited individual "😂😂😂😂😂😂

As a Brighton fan I would have to sadly go for Mwepu. He was so good though and just so unlucky with the heart problem. Or Sanchez who has sulked after losing his place because he doesnt do what De Zerbi wants - play out from the back.

For Newcastle I’d have gone for Dubravka - he demanded a move, which got him a Man U loan. They played him in the Cup, so when he returned to us he was cup tied for us for the final!