5 Premier League summer signings that have failed to deliver

Every year, new players are brought in from other leagues or are procured from other rival clubs in the league with one goal in mind - that they will take the team to greater heights than previously.

However, most signings do not pan out the way they are expected to. Some of them do not fit the nature of play. Some of them do not have the required work ethic. In some cases, the players just aren't good enough to play for the team.

Signing a new player is always a gamble, but it doesn't stop teams from having a go at it. This summer too, there were several players who changed hands and found their way into the Premier League.

While some have gone on to succeed, some have failed, and miserably at that. Here's a look at 5 such players who have failed to live up to their club's expectations:

---

#5 Gylfi Sigurdsson

Sigurddson at Everton is just a shadow of Sigurdsson at Swansea

Bought from Swansea for a mind-boggling 50 million euros, Gylfi Sigurdsson has enjoyed a thoroughly underwhelming start to his career at Everton.

After the sale of Lukaku, Everton splashed around huge amounts of money and were expected to take the Premier League by storm. It turns out that they did not spend the money very wisely, as most of the players they brought in have suffered at the club.

Chief among them is Iceland's Gylfi Sigurdsson. At Swansea, he was the prime playmaker and was one of the most consistent attacking players at the club. With devastating crosses and shots from the distance, he was a threat from all parts of the pitch.

At Everton, however, he is at risk of losing all that he is celebrated for. Most of it can be attributed to the lack of a big target man up-front for him to assist, but Siggurdson on his own has been lacklustre too.

In the PL this season, he has only scored 4 goals and assisted thrice. He has more bad touches per game than key-passes, which is just inexcusable. Although a large part of it can be owed to Everton's poor form as a while, Siggurdson has been one of the worst transfers of the summer.

#4 Victor Lindelof

Lindelof hasn't lived up to his modest price tag

The young Swedish defender was bought from Benfica for 32 million pounds but is yet to justify even this modest price tag.

On his arrival to the league, he was hailed as one of the best centre-backs in the game and was touted to become the future of Manchester United. But since then, he has hardly put in a performance that merits the tag.

Lindelof has not started a lot of games this season (923 minutes played in the PL), but this is not due to him not being trusted - it is a result of the mistakes he has made through when he has been called in to start. Most notably, his errors were responsible for Manchester United's shocking loss to Huddersfield earlier in the season.

At 23 years of age and standing tall at 6 ft and 1 inch, this is not the end of the road for the defender. Unfortunately, this is not the best of starts either. It will take much more great performances from him if he wants to claw his way into the starting line-up.

#3 Alvaro Morata

Morata has faded away after a bright start

After a brilliant start to the season, Morata has steadily disappeared from the limelight and has not played to the potential he exhibited at Real Madrid.

Brought in for 58 million pounds, it was always going to be a hard job for him to replace Diego Costa in the Chelsea line-up. But one look at his start to the season, and he looked all set to be the transfer of the season. Unfortunately, injuries and a bad run of form put an end to his run.

The Spanish striker has not had an atrocious season so far - with 13 goals and 5 assists to his name. It is just that his impact has diminished over the season after his hamstring injury, and is now not a certain starter at Stamford Bridge.

Morata scored in the quarter-final against Leicester - a classic one-on-one goal - and for a confidence striker like him, this could be just what was required. This last surge from Morata might be what stands between Chelsea and a Top-4 finish this season.

#2 Alexandre Lacazette

An unlucky combination of injuries and timing

Of all the strikers who came into the Premier League this season, Alexandre lacazette must definitely be the unluckiest.

After a 48 million pound move from Olympique Lyon, he was deemed to be the final piece in Arsene Wenger's puzzle that would lead Arsenal to glory. Unfortunately for him, he arrived at a time when the club was imploding from within.

Like Morata, Lacazette's start to the season is not the worst - 9 goals and 3 assists in the Premier League. It is just not was expected of him after his unbelievable career at Lyon, where he took the world by storm by scoring 28 goals in Ligue 1 for them.

Aubameyang's arrival in the winter at Arsenal was also not the best thing to happen to him, as it meant a sharing of minutes between the two premium forwards. To add more misfortune, he was injured in the North London Derby in February 2018 and is slated to return in April.

How the line-up will change when he gets back is not fully known, but Lacazette is still a long way from being considered a good signing for the club.

#1 Tiemoue Bakayoko

Without a doubt, Bakayoko has been the worst signing of the summer

The fact that Chelsea features twice in the list is a testament to just how poor their current season has been.

Brought in from Monaco for 36 million pounds, the Frenchman was considered as a long-term replacement for the outgoing Nemanja Matic. As it turned out, he isn't even a short-term replacement for the Serbian.

Life at the Bridge has so far been miserable for the defensive mid-fielders as everything he has touched at Chelsea has turned out to be catastrophic. A string of errors forced him out of the team, and when Conte showed him some trust, the Italian was rewarded with a red card in a crucial game.

Bakayoko's task is not to score goals but to defend the ball, and to turn defence into attack with intricate passing - and his passing is his biggest current weakness. He is nowhere near the player he was at Monaco and has been the biggest disappointment of the season.

To be fair, he is just 23 years of age, and with time and experience - combined with the physicality he exhibits, he could turn out to be a great asset to Chelsea. This season, however, he takes the cake for being the worst summer signing.