Football
Tor-Kristian Karlsen, ESPN 9y

Five struggling stars who could flourish with move in January window

It's the midseason dilemma every club dreads: You've spent a lot of money on what you hoped would be a marquee signing -- a solution to your needs that would propel you up the table -- but it just hasn't paid off. For whatever reason, your big-money star just isn't firing and, while you could chalk it up to difficulty adapting to a new country, culture or style of football in his first season, when he continues to struggle in Season 2, it becomes a big problem.

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