Moises Caicedo named flop of the season ahead of Man Utd duo Andre Onana and Rasmus Hojlund as Chelsea's £115m man is singled out for underwhelming midfield partnership with Enzo Fernandez

Chelsea and Manchester United both invested heavily in the summer transfer window, but their new recruits have failed to live up their lofty transfer tags. Caicedo arrived at Stamford Bridge from Brighton for a British record fee of £115 million ($146m) but is the flop of the season so far, according to former Scotland striker Ally McCoist. Manchester United pair Onana and Hojlund have also been higlighted by McCoist, after struggling during a difficult season for the Red Devils, but don't quite match up to the Chelsea midfielder.

The former Scotland striker told talkSPORT BET: "Andre Onana has been nothing like the signing everyone thought he would be for Manchester United, but I’m not giving him ‘flop of the season so far’, I think that’s ever so slightly harsh. But Moises Caicedo, I saw him a couple of times, particularly at Old Trafford with Enzo Fernandez in the middle of the park, and both of them were, for a quarter of a billion pounds, not great… Caicedo would certainly get my vote over Onana. Rasmus Hojlund? No chance – Caicedo and Onana would get it ahead of him. I know Hojlund hasn’t been scoring as regularly, particularly domestically, as Man United fans would want, but there’s a willingness there, there’s an eagerness there, a desire, which a lot of the United fans, the majority if not all of them, can see.

"Football fans will always cut players a lot more slack if they are totally committed and fans can see that, and so they should do. I’ve given Hojlund a bit of stick for missing chances in the past, and it’s my job to do that, but I don’t mind the fact that he keeps getting into positions, and he has scored some good goals. All the attributes are there and you’ve got to remember he’s still young, so there’s no way he’s coming into consideration for my flop of the season so far at this stage. I’m settling on Moises Caicedo!”

It took Hojlund 15 Premier League outings, 19 shots and 1026 minutes to score his first goal in the English top flight following his £72m ($92m) transfer from Atalanta.

All three players will be hoping they can improve and live up to their hefty transfer fees as the season progresses. Caicedo is back in action against Liverpool on Wednesday and may feel he has a point to prove after Jurgen Klopp said his team were "lucky" to have missed out on the midfielder. Meanwhile, Hojlund and Onana are both expected to feature for United on Thursday against Wolves.