Chelsea star selected as flop of the season above Manchester United’s Andre Onana

Chelsea midfielder Moises Caicedo is a bigger flop than either Andre Onana or Rasmus Hojlund of Manchester United so far this season.

That’s according to Ally McCoist, who has not been impressed by a Chelsea midfield that has cost nearly £250m.

Mauricio Pochettino has struggled during his first season in charge at Stamford Bridge and currently sit down in 10th in the Premier League table, though they have reached the Carabao Cup final.

The pressure is on the manager as Chelsea have spent hundreds of millions on new players over the last year but not many of the new signings have impressed so far.

One of the biggest disappointments has been Caicedo, who Chelsea spent £115m on to sign from Brighton but has yet to show the form he did for the Seagulls so far.

As a result, McCoist thinks the Ecuadorian has been a bigger flop than United’s Hojlund and Onana, who have also had difficult starts at their new club.

What McCoist said

“Andre Onana has been nothing like the signing everyone thought he would be for Manchester United, but I’m not giving him ‘flop of the season so far’, I think that’s ever so slightly harsh,” McCoist told talkSPORT BET.

“But Moises Caicedo, I saw him a couple of times, particularly at Old Trafford with Enzo Fernandez in the middle of the park, and both of them were, for a quarter of a billion pounds, not great… Caicedo would certainly get my vote over Onana.

“Rasmus Hojlund? No chance – Caicedo and Onana would get it ahead of him. I know Hojlund hasn’t been scoring as regularly, particularly domestically, as Man United fans would want, but there’s a willingness there, there’s an eagerness there, a desire, which a lot of the United fans, the majority if not all of them, can see.

“Football fans will always cut players a lot more slack if they are totally committed and fans can see that, and so they should do.

“I’ve given Hojlund a bit of stick for missing chances in the past, and it’s my job to do that, but I don’t mind the fact that he keeps getting into positions, and he has scored some good goals.

“All the attributes are there and you’ve got to remember he’s still young, so there’s no way he’s coming into consideration for my flop of the season so far at this stage. I’m settling on Moises Caicedo!”