6 of the most disappointing players this season

#4 Jerome Boateng

Boateng had a disappointing World Cup campaign

A World Cup winner, Jerome Boateng has been one of the top defenders in the world over the last few years, and has been the fulcrum in the heart of defense in all the success enjoyed by Bayern Munich and Germany in the intervening timeframe.

However, he has begun to exhibit signs of decline which reached its peak at the World Cup in Russia, where Boateng was one of the worst performers in an admittedly very poor German side which crashed out in the group stage of their World Cup defense.

He has continued with his poor form this campaign and has been responsible for a number of goals conceded by Bayern Munich as well as Germany, as opposing forwards exploit his lack of pace and positioning leading to criticisms from numerous fans and pundits alike.

Despite all the furore, he always had an ally in German coach Joachim Low, but the 56-year-old tactician also seems to have run out of patience with the 30-year-old defender, leaving him out of his last international squad, as well as coming out to say that he might be beneath the levels expected of a German defender.

So far this season, Bayern Munich have conceded 18 goals from just 15 matches (by contrast, they conceded just 28 goals in 34 matches last season and 22 the season before) as they find themselves in unfamiliar territory sitting nine points behind Borussia Dortmund.

Boateng has been a culprit for many of the goals conceded by Bayern this season and considering the high standards he has set for himself over the years, that comes as a massive disappointm