The worst XI of Premier League signings so far this season

The 2021/22 Premier League season is striding ever closer to its conclusion.

With the title race, relegation scrap and top four battle looking clearer with each game week, fans of the English game are starting to get a good idea about how the current campaign will be remembered.

Plus, the season now being six months old means that we can take a rounded and considered look at how the 20 clubs’ various signings for 2021/22 have adapted to their new surroundings.

How has Romelu Lukaku fared at Chelsea? How quickly has Jadon Sancho settled in at Manchester United? These are the sorts of questions that we can start to answer with greater substance now.

And having already given our thoughts on the Premier League’s most disappointing XI of signings this season, we wanted to take a look at the performances of the new arrivals through a different lens.

This time, we’re turning our attention to statistics in order to get a more comprehensive idea about which signings have failed to make the adjustments and adaptations that they would have liked to in 2021/22.

To do so, we’ve called upon the data gurus at WhoScored where every Premier League player is awarded a match rating for each appearance they make based on multiple key statistics.

And when said match ratings are averaged out across the campaign so far, we can just about get the most objective ranking of Premier League footballers that can possibly be achieved.

So, taking that premise and only looking at players with more total appearances than the average across the division, we’ve been able to compile the season’s worst-performing XI of Premier League signings.

With United, Leicester City and Everton purchases all featuring, it’s an eye-opening look at the players whose