Top ten Prem disappointments who should thrive next season

Erik ten Hag can turn one of the biggest disappointments of the season into a reliable outlet. And next season may have a Max Aarons answer.

We did the same list last season and it is eclectic, folks. Meet back here in 12 months, yeah?

10) Max Aarons

Both his Championship campaigns have resulted in a winner’s medal, nomination for the EFL Young Player of the Year award and a place in the PFA Team of the Year. Aarons has subsequently accompanied Norwich to the bottom of the table on both of his visits to the top flight. He has just turned 22 and there is a sense that he has shown enough to suggest he could attune his talents to a more ambitious team and become that rarest commodity: an English right-back whose excellent attacking contributions are constantly undermined by doubts over his defending.

9) Odsonne Edouard

A true pre-season should revitalise Edouard, whose immediate impact on the Scottish Premiership with Celtic was always going to be difficult to replicate in England. His late arrival to a new team, coach and squad last summer further compromised a difficult adaptation from Parkhead to Selhurst Park. It might be that Edouard has a bigger part to play in the next phase of their development under Vieira.

8) Adam Armstrong

But that progress has slowed markedly and noticeably. Armstrong has not played more than 45 minutes of a Premier League game this calendar year and a pecking order has been established with Armando Broja, Mohamed Elyounoussi and a 35-year-old Shane Long with a couple of months left on his contract ahead of the £15m signing. His last five league starts have come against Chelsea, Tottenham, Arsenal, Leicester and Liverpool, dating back to November; it isn’t difficult to see why many Southampton