6 of the most disappointing players this season

Pogba is the most expensive player in EPL history
Pogba is the most expensive player in EPL history

#2 Alvaro Morata

Morata has been a disappointment since arriving Chelsea
Morata has been a disappointment since arriving Chelsea

After struggling for gametime with Real Madrid, Morata wanted out and Chelsea offered him an outlet, splashing a club-record £58m with a potential £12m in add-ons to bring him to Stamford Bridge.

The Spanish international began his Blues career like a house on fire, scoring and assisting on his Premier League debut in a shock 3-2 loss to Burnley. He also grabbed a hat-trick a month later against Stoke City to take his goal tally to six from six matches.

Since then however, it has all gone downhill for the 26-year-old, as he embarked on long goalscoring droughts and struggled for confidence such that Olivier Giroud was signed in the January window to provide an alternative.

Morata finished his debut campaign with a platry 15 goals from 48 appearances in all competitions and was left off the Spanish World Cup squad as a result of his indifferent club form.

This season, he changed his jersey number from 9 to 29, citing the reason as being to commemorate the birth of his daughter (but it's more likely the superstitious reason of number 9's struggling at Stamford Bridge), but the number change has not done much to improve his proficiency in front of goal.

So far this season, he has just five goals from 14 EPL appearances and has found himself out of the starting lineup in recent weeks with Sarri preferring to play Hazard upfront and it is rather disappointing considering how much optimism his arrival generated.

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