This article forms part of our Total Duds feature series, which is where Football Transfer Tavern takes a look at how a player has fared since being signed or sold, using statistical figures and statements from pundits to prove how bad a deal the club got.

There was a distinct Argentine flavour to Manchester City's first Premier League triumph in 2011/12, with Sergio Aguero, Pablo Zabaleta and Carlos Tevez all playing their part in that memorable success. It was a recipe which the Etihad Stadium club sampled again in 2013 when they brought Martin Demichelis to England in a £4.2m deal from Atletico Madrid, who he had joined from Malaga only two  months previously.

The defender's move to Manchester quickly reunited him with Manuel Pellegrini, who had been his manager at Malaga when they reached the Champions League quarter-finals a few months previously. His Premier League debut was delayed due to a knee ligament injury and, when it finally came, it wasn't one to remember as City went down 2-1 to Chelsea at Stamford Bridge (as per TransferMarkt).

Demichelis would make up for lost time by becoming a regular presence in Pellegrini's line-up over the course of the 2013/14 season but he wasn't always the most assuring of figures in the Manchester City defence. He was sent off for a foul on Lionel Messi in a Champions League defeat to Barcelona which resulted in a penalty that his Argentina colleague dispatched to the net, although he publicly admitted his culpability afterwards and absolved referee Jonas Eriksson for the red card (as per Daily Mail).

Demichelis ended his first season in Manchester as a Premier League champion and League Cup winner, tasting success in the latter competition again in 2016 (as per TransferMarkt). He featured regularly in Pellegrini's starting XI in his first two seasons at the club but found game-time much harder to come by once the 2015/16 campaign rolled around.

It was not a season which the Argentina defender would care to remember fondly. In March 2016, he was charged by the FA over breaches of betting rules and fined just over £22,000 as a result. Around that time, he also endured a miserable outing in a derby defeat at home to Manchester United, when he was given the runaround by a teenage Marcus Rashford. Demichelis prompted a melee when he hauled the England youngster to the ground, having earlier been guilty of the mistake which led to Rashford's winning goal, and another error early in the second half saw him withdrawn by Pellegrini - a substitution which drew ironic cheers from some home fans.

Speaking on radio punditry duty, Robbie Savage described it as "the worst performance by a centre-half I have ever seen" [via Daily Express], while a user on the Xtratime.org forum duly began a discussion thread called "Is Martin Gaston Demichelis the worst footballer in the world?"

The Argentina defender was released from Manchester City in June 2016 and, despite winning three trophies in his time at the club, his time in England was scarred by some truly galling defensive displays and his inclusion in polls about the worst player in the Premier League. While fellow countrymen Aguero and Zabaleta would go on to be regarded as Etihad Stadium royalty, Demichelis fell far short of such standards.

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