The world's most expensive player has struggled with injury since the winter break and was booed for taking a penalty on
his only league appearance of 2018 so far against Dijon, which denied Edinson Cavani a chance to break the PSG goalscoring record.
Not exact matches
While a superstar like LeBron James will play in the
league for over a decade and earn a great deal of money from personal
appearances and endorsement deals, the median NBA player has a career of
only three to four years, and generates a relatively modest amount of outside income.
In fact, even though Asano was just 21 - years old and had won the «Rookie of the Year» award in the J -
League with Sanfrecce Hiroshima, a lot of us felt that he could well be another Park Chu - Young, the South Korean international star who spent three years on the books with Arsenal but
only made a single Premier
League appearance.
Benzema plays for a team gifted with great passers of the ball, in a
league where its easier to score yet he managed
only 15 goals in 29
appearances (2312 minutes).
Liverpool, as per the report, rejected a bid of close to # 11M for Moreno last week from Napoli, with Roma now reportedly interested in the Spanish defender, who
only managed to make 11
appearances in the
league last season.
During his final season at White Hart Lane, the former Valencia goal machine scored
only twice and provided just one assist in 31 Premier
League and Europa
League appearances.
The player has
only made two
appearances for Antonio Conte's side so far this season, with one coming in the Premier
League 2, with the other coming in the EFL Cup for the Blues» U23 side.
Last campaign, Kompany was
only capable of making 13
appearances in all competitions as Man City finished fourth in the Premier
League in Guardiola's first season in England.
Given the fact that he has
only made five
league appearances and just one from the start, however, I do not think we can be too hard on him for that.
Wimmer joined Spurs from Cologne for # 4.3 m in 2015, but
only started 13 Premier
League games over his two years at the club yet Arsenal struggled to sell Gabriel who's better than him and with more experience and
appearance for 10m.
He moved to Leicester in the January transfer window, and proceeded to make five
appearances — of which
only one was a start — as the Foxes clinched an unlikely Premier
League title.
So far this season, the defender has
only been able to make nine
appearances, with all of these coming in the Premier
League.
One of those is Isaac Hayden, a midfielder who spent his whole of his youth with Arsenal but
only ever made two
League Cup
appearances.
His
only previous opportunity came from two substitute
appearances against Fiorentina — who incidentally included just one Italian across their back four in either leg of their Europa
League tie.
In a testing campaign for United, Depay has struggled to impress, managing 20 Premier
League appearances — of which
only 12 have been starts — scoring twice and not contributing a single assist.
He certainly won'tbe able to use that excuse this summer after Giroud went on a four month non-scoring streak, and Walcott and Welbeck
only contibuted
only 9 goals between them in 39
League appearances, added to the 13 that Giroud added gave usameasly return of just 22
League goals between all three «World Class» strikers.
Zouma
only managed to make nine
league appearances for Antonio Conte's Chelsea last season as the Blues won their fifth Premier League title ahead of rivals Tott
league appearances for Antonio Conte's Chelsea last season as the Blues won their fifth Premier
League title ahead of rivals Tott
League title ahead of rivals Tottenham.
The 24 - year - old has struggled to establish himself at Tottenham since his arrival from FC Koln in 2015, making
only 15 Premier
League appearances.
The United man experienced something of an average debut season following his big - money move in the summer of 2014, making
only 16
league appearances, but Luke Shaw had shown a real upturn in form this season prior to his long - term injury.
He has led the Gunners to 3
League titles, 20 Champions
League appearances and 7 FA Cups (we had won
only 6 in the previous 110 years!)
Eisfeld made just a handful
appearances with Arsenal, and managed
only one goal in the
League Cup during his time there.
The 20 - year - old joined the Reds in 2007 from Sevilla and has made
only two Premier
League appearances for the club.
The 23 - year - old former Manchester City striker has
only made seven
league appearances for Chelsea this season, scoring one
league goal against Tottenham in October.
Aaron now has more than 300
appearances for the club, but in his 7 years as a first team regular he has
only averaged around 27
League games per season due to ongoing injury problems.
When Welbeck arrived everyone wanted him to supplement Olivier Giroud's steady goalscoring, but in his first season he scored 8 goals in 27 games plus 7 subs
appearances,
only 4 of them coming in the Premier
League.
Despite going into their Champions
League Last - 16 clash with Shakhtar Donetsk as clear favourites Bayern Munich could
only manage a 0 - 0 draw as Xabi Alonso was sent off on his 100th
appearance in the competition.
However, despite managing 59 goals in 101
appearances for Los Che, the 30 - year - old — who was recruited for an eye - watering # 26 million [BBC Sport]-- has managed
only seven outings in 51 Premier
League showings for Spurs.
Despite this, Rashford has struggled for regular game time so far in 2018, with Mourinho
only giving the player substitute
appearances in the Premier
League since the turn of the year.
The 30 - year - old has featured 24 times for the La Liga outfit in
league competition so far this term — of which 23
appearances have come from the start — but he has managed
only four goals, although eight assists mark him out as a much more productive operator than he ever was in North London, where he scored
only seven goals and contributed six assists over two miserable
league campaigns.
The 21 - year - old has
only made two Premier
League appearances for the Red Devils since signing from the Eagles in a # 15m move 18 months ago.
He bagged himself 20 goals in 45
appearances for the Baggies,
only five players could better his tally of 14 in the Premier
League.
The Brazilian international scored just two goals and providing
only three assists in 36 Premier
League appearances during Chelsea's successful Premier
League title - winning campaign.
The 21 - year - old has been in scintillating form in the Eredivisie this season as he has scored 22 goals in
only 29
appearances as PSV clinched their first
league title in seven years.
Matuidi made 52
appearances in all competitions last year as PSG endured a disappointing season, having
only made the round of 16 in the Champions
League and being pipped to the Ligue 1 title by Monaco.
Chelsea signed Piazon from Sao Paolo in January 2012, but he has
only made three
appearances for them since — two Capital One Cup starts and a substitute outing in the Premier
League.
However, Navas has been kept out of the Madrid team this season by the resurgence of Iker Casillas, thus he has
only made two
league appearances, which may reportedly tempt van Gaal to make another move this summer.
Despite having made one more Premier
League appearance than Walcott, the Frenchman has
only played 359 minutes to the England star's 500 and that makes his tally of four goals to Theo's two all the more impressive.
Lacazette has scored four goals in his six Premier
League appearances thus far, albeit whilst having
only completed the full 90 minutes on one occasion, and is already showing signs that he will prove to be a quality signing.
A statistical look at the most accurate passers in Europe's top five
leagues this season —
only including players to make more than twenty
appearances...
Though
only 21 - years - old, James Ward - Prowse has already made 112
appearances in the Premier
League.
Since he secured his transfer from fellow Premier
League side Burnley in the summer of 2015, the forward has
only been able to make 12
appearances for Jurgen Klopp's side, scoring three goals in the process.
I know Morata is a good player but is he really worth 51m... this guy has
only scored 7
league goals in 16
appearance and coming on as a sub 18 times.
He's scored 42goals in 99 Premier
League appearances - only Thierry Henry (59), Ian Wright (56) and Emmanuel Adebayor (44) scored more in their first 100 league games for the cl
League appearances -
only Thierry Henry (59), Ian Wright (56) and Emmanuel Adebayor (44) scored more in their first 100
league games for the cl
league games for the club....
Statistically speaking, Lukas has not started a single game for Arsenal in the
League and has
only made four
appearances off the bench.
Giroud, Walcott and Welbeck combined can
only claim 20 Premier
League goals, in their combined 60
appearances, with
only the latter returning at least one goal for every two outings.
The young midfielder has been mentioned on numerous occasions as one of the stand - out players from our academy, but was
only promoted to the first - team squad to make two
League Cup
appearances.
and Ganabry tooo but with a buy back clause... he would be rotting at the bench and
only make occassion
appearance in the
league and FA cup
He made 22
appearances in the Premier
League but
only started 11 of those matches.
Janssen arrived from Dutch side AZ Alkmaar for # 17m, per BBC Sport, in July of last year on a four year deal but
only netted twice in 28
league appearances.
The striker has largely failed to make much of an impact at each side he's played for and in fact the Englishman has
only ever scored 3
league goals in 57
league appearances.