Premier League embarrassment meter: Ranking Manchester United, Tottenham and other bottom half clubs

Usually in this phase of the Premier League season teams that float around 12th place would hardly earn any recognition. Unsuding from the European hopeful, but without the risk of relegation, they would be the forgotten intermediaries of England. Eddie How’s Bournemouth. Roy Hodgson’s Crystal Palace. Wolves between late stage Nuno Espirito Santo and Gary O’Neill.

But have you seen the names in the NetherSphere this season? These are some of the great old ladies of the Premier League. Three never related sides. One tracking for 19 of the 20 seasons under the English football site. (There has been a lot of discussion about whether Crystal Palace deserves a place in this piece, but they have been back in the big time ten years, so let’s look.) And two of them, Manchester United and Everton, are from this weekend.

All this means that it is a good time for Schadenfreude. The lower medium -table and upper relegation areas glow from shame eleganza reality, but who has the most to be about Ashen Face? We put on our laboratory jackets, put the Bunsen burner on full flames and came up with the first (and probably last) Premier League-Shame-O meter from CBS Sports. And yes, we all know that Manchester United will break the scale, but who will be second? That’s something, right? Read on. Please…

12th, Tottenham, 30 points

Do you want to say or will you Ange? It’s all about the injuries that fools you. And look, he has a point. In fact, he has 17 of them in the 16 Premier League matches since Cristian Romero and Micky van de Ven went down, as well as the 16th best expected goal difference of the Premier League. Guglielmo Vicario and Destiny Udogie were also missed and Postecoglou’s defense of his side at the time was compelling. Without 80 percent of your starting backline is a challenge that would demonstrably go beyond each team.

The counter argument is that the Arsenal attack is battered and they are still in second place that the disastrous, injury season of Manchester City is still in the mix for Champions League qualification next season. Those are the teams that strive to judge themselves. However, the Gunners can have the same problems if they lost William Saliba and Gabriel for two and a half months. The Postecoglou system requires central backs that can cover huge spaces behind them. Few teams will have back -ups that can do that everywhere in the neighborhood, as well as Van de Ven and Romero.

Where it becomes somewhat embarrassing for Tottenham, the insistence of Postecoglou is that that approach would never change. It has. More ballast has been added to midfield, the line of defense has fallen deeper. It’s not who they are and you can tell. That is not the only time that traces have been hoisted by the comments of their manager. The Europa League is still a live care, but you can already insist that he always wins trophies in his soundtrack clips of the second season of their hammering through Liverpool, Aston Villa and a continental opponent.

Shame-o-meter rating: 3/5

13th – Crystal Palace, 30 points

To be honest, they are here because it looked stranger to leave them away. Of course there is something vague awkward for the Palace Faithful about how this season has disappeared. Their turnout on the table with Oliver Glasner in the spring of 2024 had fans who hope they would no longer settle for mid -table and perhaps a cup run. Now, well, that Millwall game looks pretty nice? A few happy breaks of the draw and Wembley is waiting for.

Anyway, a season of austerity could be expected – Admitted not by this writer – Given the departure of Michael Olise and Joachim Andersen. It took time, but Maxence Lacroix looks a sterling replacement for the latter and although players such as Olise can only come once a decade, the recruitment of Palace in the football competition gives them the best opportunity to improve those opportunities. So yes, it’s all good.

Shame-o-meter rating: 1/5

14th – Everton, 30 points

Are you joking? Just think of the shame this season could have brought to Evertonians. Pulling the curtain on their new stadium into the championship was not even the worst. Then at least this club would be a concern. Until the Friedkin group took the regime from Farhad Moshiri, that was no guarantee.

The new owners did not intend to play it safely. Sacking Survival Specialist Sean Dyche for David Moyes could have really worked. Instead, the new boss has the appearance of a recurring hero, a man who could take the promise that good times are coming back for the blue part of Merseyside. If they feel something dizzy as the equalizer of James Tarkowski against Liverpool, the Moyesiah -Memes will be delicious.

So yes, a team with the rich history of Everton should strive for just over 14th, but a team with the current play staff of Everton, who have bound with one hand behind their backs for years. They should distract the trusses this season.

Shame-o-meter rating: 0/5

15th – Manchester United, 29 points

If you want a copy of Manchester United Inktelt as they are now, it would be the news that Chief Executive Omar Berrada threatened to dismiss every employee who leaked to the press, a story you will find in … The daily Telegraaf. A year after Sir Jim Ratcliffe completed his investment to become minority owner and Human Shield for the glassers, there is few signs of structural improvement. Ratcliffe squeezes the pennies of bonuses for stewards and staff trips to the FA Cup final, while more than $ 18 million has burned out in the dismissal of Dan Ashworth and Erik ten Hag.

It could be assumed that going further from a clear ineffective head coach would have solved things, but United has built such an unbalanced team that Ruben Amorim, considered one of the excellent young tactics in Europe, could not get a tune out. They soon approach the stage in which they have to decide whether they want to build a team for a coach who on average has a point in the Premier League, a player’s pool that looks extremely cumbersome in the hands of the person afterwards comes.

You would think that the money would at least be present to finance an Amorim -Herbouw, but they continue to pay the price of their flood of bad signing sessions. Rasmus Hojlund and Joshua Zirkzee have cost more than $ 100 million between them and yet United still needs a center desperately. It is difficult to see how United finances different purchases at starter level without grinding their teeth and selling one of their smart young things, the kind that you should rebuild.

This hardly scratches the surface. There are the Beatdowns from Bournemouth, Brighton and Crystal Palace, the diabolical defense of SET documents, the tone deaf management of ticketing strategy. The hard truth is that United is 15th in the Premier League, not because they have had bad luck, but because they have had the results that their performances deserve. About the only problem with set United so high on the shame-o-meter is that their supporters have the right to feel much more war for their club than just that.

Shame-o-meter rating: 5/5

16th, West Ham, 27 points

To be honest, West Ham should be grateful for the presence of Manchester United just above them, so that they are protected against a lot of wider Opprobrium. This is not a club with a shortage of resources, nor afraid of spending money, more than $ 150 million in the summer. Cost -white little was well spent and it was no wonder that technical director Tim Steidt left earlier this month, leaving Misfires such as Niclas Fullkrug, Konstantinos Mavropanos and Luis Guilherme behind in his wake. On the other hand, the transfer industry had the appearance of too many chefs from the start, Max Killman drew at great costs to reunite with Julen Lopetegui, who had little in his track record to suggest that he would really be an upgrade on Moyes.

Graham Potter seems to have found the same problems that his predecessors had. West Ham’s is a strange built team. You could hardly wish for more talent in attacking midfield, where Lucas Paqueta, Mohamed Kudus and Jarrod Bowen would improve some of the best squadrons in Europe. However, behind them it has been clear for some time that Edson Alvarez is not a successor to Declan Rice and Tomas Soucek is miscast when it is played deeper. It was very unfortunate that in December the car accident of Mikhail Antonio set aside the record prime minister of the club for the long term, but for years West Ham needed more at Striker, something they did not get until Evan Ferguson arrived on a deadline -Ad loan.

Two years ago, West Ham had something to build. They would certainly lose Declan Rice, but they were also about to win European silverware after a few years in the mix. There was money to spend, a stadium that yields great income and a capital city for all its experience errors to sell to potential signing sessions. Since then, West Ham has deteriorated at such a pace that, even if they will almost certainly be in order this season, there is a real reason for concern that if things don’t go well in the summer, Potter could be canceled against it Wrong end of the table within eight or nine months.

Shame-o-meter rating: 4/5