Five players forgotten in the Premier League

There is a surprising number of players connected to Premier League clubs that we would otherwise have forgotten, if there had not been the January transfer window to alert us of their current situation.

The other day, I met a transfer that had completely escaped me for a week, that of Vicente Iborra from Leicester City to Villareal. While the Spaniard has played 27 league games since coming to the Fox in 2017, including eight this season, his career in England has gone smoothly. In fact, I thought that he had already left the country last summer!

That made me think: Which players are currently registered in Premier League clubs that you could have easily forgotten and still existed? Here are some names that could refresh your memory:

Lazar Markovic

The Serb joined Liverpool while he was 20 years old and promised £ 20 million in 2014, but four years and four loans later, he is still in the records of Anfield. I was really surprised to see recent stories about the Merseyside club about to finally see the back of the winger for good because I thought it was gone a long time ago.

To this day, Markovic has played only 34 games, in all competitions, with the Reds. The last one took place in 2015. He has been loaned to Fenerbahce, Sporting Club, Hull City and Anderlecht. If he does not find a club in January, he will leave. a free agent in the summer.

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Vincent Janssen

The ultimate insult to Vincent Janssen's visibility or lack of visibility as a professional footballer was exposed at Mauricio Pochettino's press conference earlier this week.

Harry Kane and Heung-Min Son being currently unavailable, Alasdair Gold of Football.London asked the Spurs manager he was considering bringing the Dutchman to the cover.

Pochettino replied coldly, "No, he is not in my plans."

Ouch. Even his own manager does not think of Vincent Janssen.

It was the first time in a long time that I had already seen the attacker, who had joined AZ Alkmaar for the North London club for 18 million pounds in 2016, and that was mentioned in an article. Arrived with such a promise two and a half years ago, he will inevitably leave as a largely forgotten flop.

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Oumar Nibade

Admit it: without the recent stories linking it to a loan transfer to Cardiff City, you would have totally forgotten that Oumar Nibade already existed.

The Senegalese international left Lokomotiv Moscow to travel to Everton for £ 13.5 million in 2016, but only played 152 minutes in his first season. He has not received a team number for the 2016-17 season, a sign of disrespect by manager Ronald Koeman, who said: "If Nibade likes to play football, he has to leave Everton . "

Nibade did not leave, received the number 24 on his t-shirt, but was then demoted to under 23 and his personal locker was revoked.

Like Markovic, he was loaned to Hull City, where Marco Silva was his manager, on loan in the second half of the season. Although Nibade played 22 times in the league last season, Silva has only used it five times this season, including the last against Brighton on December 29th.

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Connor Wickham

Injuries have limited Wickham's career, but it's not a player who stays easily in the lead for a huge before game.

Nevertheless, Sunderland paid Ipswich an initial commission of £ 8m (likely to rise to £ 12m) in 2011 for its services, which included 15 goals in 91 selections. Not exactly the next Alan Shearer.

For some reason, Crystal Palace felt that was reason enough to spend £ 7 million to buy it because it's the Premier League and no one knows what real money means yet. Still, he scored that absolute cracker for the Eagles.

While Shane Long was in the center of attention last week for scoring his first goal in the round of 100, Wickham scored a last goal in November 2016, when Palace lost 2-1 at home against Man City. That same month, the Englishman broke his cruciate ligament, an injury that prevented him from remaining inactive for two years.

The striker recently left the test bench in three successive matches, slowly recovering his physical form and possibly a place in our collective consciousness.

Tiemoue Bakayoko

The Parisian did not join Chelsea until a year and a half ago, but he has the impression that he is nothing more than a distant memory at this stage.

Bakayoko was part of the exodus of the excellent Monaco club that had qualified for the semi-finals of the Champions League and had played the title of Ligue 1 against PSG.

Unfortunately, things have not been so good for the South London midfielder. When it was signed in 2016, it was thought that the Blues had led a brilliant venture: unloading the aging Nemanja Matic to Manchester United for almost double what they had paid him, while signing his replacement for pretty much the same amount.

Bakayoko was unable to reproduce the kind of form that had earned him a transfer in first place, however, one of the many Chelsea players who had played badly during a catastrophic title defense last season. Currently on loan at AC Milan, many TV viewers in the Premier League have already forgotten that he was in first place as his impact on English football was weak.

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Anders Lindegaard

Remember when people said that Alex Ferguson should start Anders Lindegaard in front of David De Gea? The Spaniard was initially struggling to adapt to English football, so the question of who should start in goal is inevitably heavy and has been dragging on for months. Ferguson is holding firm, and the rest is history.

The Dane remained the second choice at Old Trafford until 2015, the year he moved to West Bromwich Albion, where he played … no league game.

Eight years after joining United, he is still in English football and has arrived in Burnley via Preston North End in 2017. Lindegaard is no longer the second choice though – he is Fourth in hierarchical order, behind three England internationals and little or no hope to see the disputed time in the top of the table except a miracle.

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