Welcome to guardian.co.uk's review of the 2010-11 Premier League season. As the campaign draws to a close, we want you to help us find the most spectacular goal, biggest flop and best signing, as well as the winner in seven other categories. Our writers have nominated some contenders, but this is just the starting point for the conversation: we would like your suggestions so that we can compile the best into final polls that you can vote on. As the season obviously doesn't finish until Sunday afternoon, the nomination blogs will be open until later that evening, with the polls then open from Monday 23 May. Thanks.
Joe Cole
Looking back, it seems bizarre that the capture of this Chelsea cast-off was considered a huge coup for Liverpool (not as bizarre, of course, as Steven Gerrard's claim that Cole was as good as Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo). But it is also odd that his impact at Anfield has been quite so pitiful. From the moment on his debut when he copped a red card for an uncharacteristic lunge at Laurent Koscielny, Cole, along with Roy Hodgson, came to represent the curiously extreme underachievement that maimed Liverpool's early season. Just as Hodgson seemed to forget, upon his arrival at Anfield, all the things he had done well at Fulham and retained only the negative, Cole's once-vaunted control and trickery went to pieces and Liverpool were left with only a nervous wreck. Hodgson has redeemed himself at West Brom, Cole still looks forlorn. Mind you, at least no one is denying that he ever existed. Paul Konchesky, on the other hand …
Andrey Arshavin
The Russian international is one of the most experienced players in the Arsenal squad yet still seems a Premier League ingénu. When younger team-mates needed inspiration, or even just a dash of vim, especially when Cesc Fábregas and Samir Nasri were out, where was the 29-year-old Arshavin, who unquestionably has the ability to provide both those things and more? Toddling around the wing hoping no one noticed him. He played more league games than anyone else at Arsenal during this campaign but, proportional to calibre, he contributed less than anyone.
Mikel John Obi
This was the season in which the enigma of Mikel was resolved: he is not a slow-burning talent, he is a flaming waste of money. The player who was once voted second only to Leo Messi at the Under-20 World Cup and provoked a costly squabble for his services between Manchester United and Chelsea has slipped into a rut and failed utterly to clamber out of it. Carlo Ancelotti devoted much time and energy to trying to coax him out of the constraints that José Mourinho had imposed on him but Mikel showed that he has become comfortable, even complacent, in them. Ancelotti asked him to be more progressive in his play and even start scoring goals: by way of reply, Mikel has managed three shots on target in 27 appearances. With the injuries to Frank Lampard and Michael Essien this season Chelsea needed Mikel to step up. He continued to slouch.
Mauro Boselli
If you blinked, you won't have seen him. If you stared like a stalker at every little thing he did, you won't ever have seen him looking dangerous. Wigan's record signing arrived for £6m from Argentina's Estudiantes, where he had thrashed in 32 goals in 57 games, and, after eight Premier League games and no goals, was ushered off on loan to Genoa. If Wigan go down, it will mainly be because they invested in a shoddy striker. West Ham could say the same – isn't that right, Robbie Keane? – but that would be only partly true: because their defence, midfield and management have been dire too.
Fernando Torres
Don't go thinking that a goal created by a puddle against West bloody Ham gets you off the hook, El washed-up-looking Niño.
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