Every Premier League club’s worst player in 2024/25: Horrible Hojlund, dire Darwin…
Here is the worst player at each Premier League club this season, according to WhoScored average match ratings.
We’re only including players who made at least 19 league appearances and a minimum of three starts during the 2024/25 season.
Every Premier League club’s worst player this season
Arsenal: Myles Lewis-Skelly (6.41)
Lewis-Skelly has been impressive, but two red cards in the Premier League this season have dragged down his average match rating, which doesn’t fairly reflect his impact.
Aston Villa: Pau Torres (6.41)
Unai Emery wanted Torres as one of his first major signing and he has been fairly decent since joining in 2023. The Spaniard’s form has declined a bit this season though.
Bournemouth: Adam Smith (6.34)
After Julian Araujo flopped, Bournemouth will surely sign another right-back this summer.
Brentford: Fabio Carvalho (6.26)
Former Liverpool youngster Carvalho has been restricted to mainly substitute appearances but has rarely impressed when on the pitch. He’s not appeared since Getting In On The Act against Leicester in February.
Brighton: Brajan Gruda (6.30)
Gruda scored his first Premier League goal against Wolves to become Brighton’s 17th different scorer in 2024/25, separating themselves from Arsenal.
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Chelsea: Christopher Nkunku (6.41)
Nkunku has been a major disappointment and is set to leave the Blues in the summer.
Crystal Palace: Justin Devenny (6.16)
Devenny has only started four times in the Premier League this term but has come off the bench on 17 occasions.
Everton: Jack Harrison (6.40)
Harrison has one Premier League goal in 32 appearances this season.
Fulham: Issa Diop (6.32)
Diop has started 15 times this season despite the summer signing of Joachim Anderson. He has been decent enough, to be fair to him.
Ipswich: Jack Taylor (6.17)
Taylor narrowly missed out on the most recent worst XI thanks to Liverpool’s Ryan Gravenberch. He’s not been very good in a poor Ipswich team.
Leicester: Bobby De Cordova-Reid (6.11)
What a poor decision it was to join Leicester last summer. Not that he has looked like a big fish in a small pond.
Liverpool: Darwin Nunez (6.46)
The champions have to have someone and we are not surprised it is Darwin. The Uruguayan has five goals and two assists in eight starts and 20 substitute appearances. It’s anyone’s guess where he’ll be playing his football next season.
Man City: Manuel Akanji (6.44)
Akanji recently returned from a lengthy injury, taking over here when Kyle Walker moved to AC Milan in January.
Man Utd: Rasmus Hojlund (6.27)
With all due respect, Hojlund has been embarrassingly poor in a Man Utd team that should be ashamed of themselves this season. They are 16th in the Premier League, yet are Europa League finalists.
Hojlund cost the Red Devils £70m and has four league goals in 30 appearances this term. Man City goalkeeper Ederson has as many goal involvements.
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Newcastle: Sean Longstaff (6.25)
Qualifying for Europe could be what saves Longstaff’s Newcastle career, with Eddie Howe obviously unwilling to go into 2025/26 with a small squad. With 25 average top-flight appearances this term, a summer exit still can’t be ruled out.
Nottingham Forest: Taiwo Awoniyi (6.09)
Life comes at you fast. Awoniyi’s goals kept Forest in the top flight in 2022/23 and now he can’t get a sniff because of Chris Wood and his 19 league goals while the club chase an unlikely Champions League berth.
Awoniyi is one of the few players to rank at the very bottom of the average ratings table without any appearance restriction.
Southampton: Cameron Archer (6.13)
Southampton will be the second-worst team in Premier League history at worse after securing an unlikely draw against Manchester City that sparked some glorious and pathetic Ruben Dias tears.
No player deserves to be singled out considering how historically awful this Saints team is, but Archer has technically been their worst, though Ryan Fraser and his 5.96 is bottom overall. Oh, we just singled out two players. Whoops.
Tottenham Hotspur: Archie Gray (6.17)
Spurs don’t care about their Premier League position; do you really think they care about this stupid little feature? Not caring about how s**t they are is just who they are, mate.
West Ham: Carlos Soler (6.28)
Soler joined the Hammers on loan with high expectations considering he was coming from Paris Saint-Germain. He has not been very good but then again, neither have any of his West Ham teammates.
Wolves: Hwang Hee-chan (6.15)
Hwang edges ahead of Tommy Doyle, who shares the same average rating, by virtue of having played more minutes.
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