4) Chelsea
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When you end the last season as Premier League Champions, you hope for the club to push on this season and fight for the Champions League title as well. Chelsea though decided to do the exact opposite.
Half way through the season, Chelsea, far from being convincing in the Champions League, were battling it out with the relegation contenders in the bottom half of the table.
Before long, the fans started hearing of discontent between the players and the coach and Jose Mourinho’s dream return to Stamford Bridge descended into a full-fledged nightmare.
The man treated by the faithful with integrity soon left Stamford Bridge for a second time in his career. Trigger-happy Roman Abramovich had given Jose close to half of the season to turn it around but it just did not work for the manager.
Even with results improving now, it seems preposterous that last season’s most influential players, Eden Hazard and Nemanja Matic are still struggling to come anywhere close to last term's celestial form which drove Chelsea to the Premier League title. Goal-machine Diego Costa and midfield orchestrator Cesc Fabregas have looked shoddy for most of the season as well with others in the squad not catching the eye.
Interim manager, Guus Hiddink seems to have battled out the worst for Chelsea and has stabilised the ship with a run of decent results. However, it seems unlikely that Chelsea will be in contention for a place in Europe the coming season. Evidently, the bigger you are the harder you fall.
