Premier League players who have suffered stark drop-offs this season | OneFootball

Some big names have suffered stark drop-offs in the Premier League this season, unable to match the performances of last season.

Mohamed Salah

Perhaps the most obvious drop-off on this list,Mohamed Salah has set such ridiculous standards in his Liverpool career that this season's struggles have been unmissable.

Salah set a newPremier League record for goals and assists in a 38-game campaign last season, leading the division on both metrics as Liverpool won the title.

This season, he's mustered four goals and six assists, though it's the optics that are more concerning than the data.

The Egyptian appears to have lost his explosiveness when one-on-one with defenders, and the 33-year-old's threat has diminished as a result. He's currently onthe longest goal drought of his Premier League career, at nine games.

Justin Kluivert

Justin Kluivert's outstanding 2024-25 campaign saw him earn an international recall, six years on from his Dutch debut.

Kluivert scored 12 league goals forBournemouth last season, including becoming the first player to score a hat-trick of penalties in an English top-flight game since 1967.

He's scored just twice in the Premier League this season and has made only 10 league starts, struggling to nail down an automatic role before undergoing knee surgery last month.

Jorgen Strand Larsen

Wolves secured one of the signings of the season last campaign after landing Jorgen Strand Larsen on loan from Celta Vigo. The Norwegian scored 14 goals in his debut campaign at Molineux, with only seven Premier League players scoring more non-penalty goals.

Strand Larsen struggled to replicate that form during the opening months of the campaign, mustering just one league goal for a Wolves side rooted to the bottom of the table.

He joinedCrystal Palace in January in a club-record deal and scored twice on his home debut, though it looks unlikely that he will get close to last season's numbers.

Chris Wood

A reliable goalscorer at Premier League level for several seasons, Chris Wood produced the best campaign of his career in 2024-25.

The New Zealand international scored 20 goals to fireNottingham Forest to European qualification, with only Mohamed Salah and Erling Haaland scoring more across the entire Premier League.

Wood picked up where he left off with a double on the opening weekend against Brentford, but blanked across his next seven league games as Forest failed to win. A knee injury has sidelined the striker since October.