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This season, like any other season, many expected the top teams in Europe to play their usual exciting type of football and dominate in their respective leagues.
Yet teams like Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, Manchester United have been horrendous in their respective leagues and are languishing in positions which are largely unknown to their quality and standards they have set for themselves.
Other than these 3 teams there have been many other teams which have been underperforming even to their standards and it is high time for the teams to make the necessary changes to come back to their glory days.
Let's take a look at some of the teams which have been heavily underperforming.
#5 AS Roma
Roma had a really good season the last time around by their own standards and reached the semifinals of the Champions League beating heavyweights Barcelona on their way.
In the league as well, they performed very well and had the second best defensive record after Juventus in the league.
This season however things have not gone according to plan; they are 7th in the league and their defence is out of sorts after the sale of Alisson to Liverpool.
The absence of Radja Nainggolan in their team and the inability to fill his void is costing Roma and they are struggling to replicate their form from last season.
With Roma comfortably making it out of the group stages in the Champions League this season, they should concentrate in the league and hope to make it into the top 4 to make sure they get Champions League football next season.
With Eusebio De Franceso at the helm, they have nothing to worry about, but some key signings to replace their only goal threat Edin Dzeko is a necessity as there is no other player who can replicate the Bosnian's class in their team right now.
#4 Bayern Munich
Last season under the management of Jupp Heynckes, Bayern won yet another Bundesliga title after a woeful start to the season under Carlo Ancelotti.
This season, Bayern brought in a young and exciting manager in the form of Niko Kovac, who left Frankfurt after guiding them to 8th position in the league.
This season, Bayern have had a similar start to the season, but it doesn't look like Dortmund are going to slip-up like last season under Peter Bosz and Peter Stoger.
With players like Franck Ribery and Arjen Robben still at the club, and Manuel Neuer out-of-form ever since returning from injury.
Currently fourth in the league and nine points behind league leaders Dortmund who are unbeaten at the time of writing, it looks like finally there will be a new team to win the Bundesliga after quite a long time.
#3 Real Madrid
In the summer, Real Madrid lost two of their most priced gems in the form of Zinedine Zidane as their manager and an out and out goalscorer in the form of Cristiano Ronaldo.
The arrival of Julen Lopetegui right before the start of the World Cup came with criticism from all over Spain.
Having brought back Mariano Diaz from Lyon to replace someone with the calibre of Ronaldo has raised quite a lot of eyebrows, but with no impact for the team.
With Benzema still being the main striker and Gareth Bale enduring his worst drought of his Real Madrid career, it hasn't exactly been a joy ride for the Los Blancos.
Santiago Solari looks to have brought stability to the Real Madrid team and the results have been much better, but still Real Madrid are a long way apart from their usual best.
#2 Manchester United
Manchester United were not in the best of form entering this season, having a poor pre-season campaign and also failing to sign desired transfer targets in order to strengthen their defence.
Mourinho reiterated that this season will be much tougher than the previous season and with Liverpool strengthening their squad with signings of Fabinho and Xherdan Shaqiri and also Naby Keita arriving after agreeing a deal last season.
Mourinho's need for a centre-back seems to be understandable given how poor United have been this season, with a negative goal difference and languishing at 8th in the league, and de Gea's poor form coinciding with this has only gotten worse for the Red Devils
With fans growing increasing frustrated with the results and the board not meeting Mourinho's requirements, it is only matter of time before Mourinho gets the sack and a new manager is installed.
#1 AS Monaco
Two years ago, AS Monaco reached the semifinals of the Champions League, beating the likes of Manchester City and Borussia Dortmund en route.
They won the league ahead of Paris St. Germain and everything was going right for the French side till then.
Come the summer transfer window and their players chose different destinations and 2 years on, they barely seem to be a shadow of the team that won the league.
Players like Bernardo Silva have been replaced by the likes of Nacer Chadli, and the inability to find another goalscoring stalwart to partner alongside the aging Falcao has put Monaco in a situation they wouldn't have even dreamt about a couple years ago.
Monaco started this season with hopes of Champions League spots but right now, they are far from achieving that and are struggling at 18th in the league, and also crashed out the group stages in the Champions League, languishing in fourth and without winning a single game.
Theirry Henry was appointed after the sacking of Jardim and things haven't been improved much, but it is still soon and hopefully the French outfit can fight of relegation and get back to where they belong.
