Welcome to the show of Flop stars.
You have seen players race for the Golden boot, race for the PFA player of the year award, race for becoming a hero, becoming a legend. But sometimes, they run vertically down the career curve and that is when they seem to be called as flops, fallen angels or heroes turned to zeros.
Here Is My List Of Flop Stars1.
Manuel Almunia (Arsenal)
could be heading out of Arsenal Football Club this summer.Arsene Wenger has finally lost patience with his number one of last season, and is closing on a deal to sign Fulham’s Australian shot-stopper Mark Schwarzer.
The Gunners coach has recently confessed that Almunia struggles with confidence ahead of big games, and it is difficult to see the Spaniard having much of a future at the Emirates Stadium.According to The People, Almunia, formerly of Celta Vigo, could be heading back to Spain, where Atletico Madrid are prepared to offer the 33-year-old a fresh start.However, he could eve struggle for regular first team football at the Vicente Calderon, as Atletico have two fine young goalkeepers in Sergio Asenjo and David De Gea.
2.Christian Poulsen (Liverpool)
Danish midfielder has failed to impress since his £4.5 million summer move from Juventus and could be on his way out of Anfield as soon as January.New director of football strategy Damien Comolli does not believe Poulsen has a future at Liverpool and wants to bring in a younger replacement with more potential.It is believed manager Roy Hodgson would back the sale of the former Sevilla star but only if an upgrade can be brought in as he is concerned by the small size of his squad.
3.Yaya Toure (Man City)Yaya Toure is the highest paid midfielder now with th
e rich dad Manchester City.City's manager Mancini grabbed Toure from Barcelona as a free agent and offered him the highest ever paid salary. However, we find no logic behind signing Toure. City had Vincent Kompany and Nigel De Jong who were developing as good future players. The addition of Toure simply means a block in the career of those.Secondly, highest paid player? No you gotta be kidding.Toure is known for his physical prowess and technical ability on the pitch, he is a monster and can dominate over the players. However, he has shown no sign of greatness since his transfer and will be just "good" for City this year.And you don't spend millions behind a "just good" player. Logical enough to mark him as a flop one.
4 Joe Cole (Liverpool)Cole has been a microcosm of Liverpo
ol’s season. Having made changes over the summer both entered the season with expectations relatively low, coming off a down year they were expected to return to their level of form if not better. These modest expectations have not been met. Joe Cole continues to frustrate, a bright pre-season was marred by a lapse in judgement as he ruled himself out for 3 matches. On his return he was placed on the left wing, despite his preference to play in the middle of the pitch where he feels he is best, as a left winger he has been poor. His crossing is not of the standard required and as he drifts inside he clutters the middle of the pitch alongside Lucas, Gerrard, Meireles and Maxi who also tends to drift inside. Not to labour the point but this would be effective if Liverpool’s full-backs were allowed to overlap. No, Joe Cole has shown the same level of performance for Liverpool as he did for Chelsea, alot was made of the youngster coming through at West Ham, now 28 (29 in a week) Cole has fulfilled none of that promise. At Stamford Bridge last year as Inter knocked out Chelsea Cole was introduced to a large cheer from the fans but he flattered to deceive as usual and was inconsequential for 20 minutes. At Liverpool he continues this poor form. In a position that doesn’t suit him, taking playing time away from players who could be more useful on the wing Joe Cole’s tenure at Liverpool has been as bad as their season
5 Raul Meireles: (Liverpool)The Portuguese midfielder was one of the mo
re expensive (excluding Man City) transfers of the summer. Bought with the proceeds of Javier Mascherano’s forced sale, Meireles was to replace the defensive nature of the Argentinean with some creativity and dynamism, so far all Meireles has accomplished has been to make Lucas look better by comparison. This is (of course) not to write him off completely, he has never been a prolific goal-scorer and is more a box-to-box player who very rarely misses a game, however so far he has shown very little quality to go with his effort. His passing has seemed limited (this may be a tactical instruction) and his shooting has been woeful, in a Liverpool team that has been all accounts terrible it would be hard to stand out or even excel but for 12 million more has been expected
Nasri (Arsen
Tim Cahill (Everton) 
