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10) Lys Mousset
It remains the case that exactly half the goals Lys Mousset has scored in his entire senior career came in a single season for Le Havre, when he plundered 14 for the French club in 2015/16 but could only watch as Metz were promoted ahead of them into Ligue Un on the basis of – funnily enough – goals scored. The forward has managed the same tally before and since for four different clubs in three separate countries, seemingly finding his level with some promising form in the Championship between injuries, Covid and, perhaps most chronic of all, reported attitude problems.
Those came to the fore at Sheffield United, for whom he was once a club-record signing. Mousset was their joint top scorer and assist provider as the Blades secured a mid-table Premier League finish in 2020 but his unavailability was among myriad issues resulting in their subsequent relegation.
Before then, Mousset had helped vaguely steer Bournemouth clear of trouble for three years. The 26-year-old somehow never completed the full 90 minutes of any of his 53 games for Sheffield United, who released him this summer after an ineffective half-season on loan contributing precious little to Salernitana’s ludicrous Serie A survival escapades.
9) Nolito
With six goals and five assists in 30 games, Nolito’s solitary Manchester City season was technically more productive than Jack Grealish’s. But some transfers are doomed from conception and while the forward embraced his and former Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola’s reunion with the best intentions and a four-year contract, only a quarter of that deal would ever be fulfilled.
“My daughter’s face has changed colour – it looks like she’s been living in a cave,” Nolito told a Spanish radio station after enduring a 12-month English culture shock. Not only was he 29 and thus approaching the autumn of his career when he moved, but Manchester City represented his first employers outside of Spain or Portugal.
After an initial burst of four goals in his opening 11 matches, Nolito faded considerably and even admitted that a Guardiola rant after Barcelona handed out a particularly chastening Champions League group stage lesson was wasted on him because of his poor grasp of English. Ilkay Gundogan, Guardiola’s first Etihad signing, remains a key cog in the machine….
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