Top 10 Overrated Premier League Players

Ok then, its money where my mouth is time...top 10 overrated players to be the yang to my underrated ying.  So, in no particular order;

• Andy Carroll - I've no doubt the boy will improve, but lets face it, £35million for a player who has had at best half a good season in the top flight.  He's got the physical attributes to have been a force in the mid-90's complete with the shots (of the alcoholic variety)/minutes played ratio (thats sitting somewhere at around 50:1 at the last count)
• Gael Clichy - I'm sure Arsenal fans will agree with me on this one.  He had such potential as a young full-back at Arsenal, but in recent years he's lost his way a bit.  In fact the best aspect of his game is the schoolboy enthusiasm at which he receives the ball, gets his head down and runs in a straight line towards the oppositions goal, before reaching the final third and panicking.
• Maxi Rodriguez - For a man who has won over 40 caps for one of the top footballing nations in the world, the boy is severely average, he has a fairly good 11 goals in 45 appearances for Liverpool, but be honest, how many times have you ever noticed him on the pitch (in a good way, not in a shanky, cows backside banjo way).
• Ramires - Similar to Maxi, another average player who has started racking up caps fora top international team, although this time the Selecao.  Another one who is remarkable anonymous in any game until you see what you think is a teenager receive the ball and either a) passes it sideways or b) passes it long.  Almost the definition of 'the boys got a good engine'.
• Salomon Kalou - Only just sneaking into the overrated category by the skin of his teeth, otherwise would be firmly on the sh*t pile alongside Chelsea flop Franco Di Santo.  Somehow has racked up an impressive 135 appearances for Chelsea, but has only found the net 35 times...which for a striker is pretty useless.
• Nicklas Bendtner - Enough said....next.
• Kieran Richardson - its not often that Fergie gets it wrong, and in my opinion Richardson wasn't 'one that got away'.  Don't get me wrong, he has a fairly impressive set piece talent, and a better than average passing ability, the problem is he just doesn't have the football brain to go with the technical ability.
• Ben Foster - at one time I truly believed that Ben Foster was the man who would be Englands number one for years to come, after two successful spells at Watford he looked to have the raw shot stopping ability to go on to big things once the decision making caught up...unfortunately it never has.  Always a worry when your 'keeper is scared of round white things.
• Jay Bothroyd - Much like Kieran Richardson, how often does Wenger get it wrong (we'll come back to that in a later post)?  Bothroyd was not one of those, Championship striker at best, but never a 20 goal Premier League man, or England international.
• Danny Graham - struggled when I used to go and watch him in League 1...Premier League may be a bit beyond him, good little piece of business for Watford though getting that much money for him.