I am on season 12 and find myself with some players that are giving me below average performances, they are getting 5-6's, not just one player but two or three players, this has lead to me struggling in the league this year and not qualifying for the champions league for the first time.

I have checked there contracts and they are all on 3 years and i have even dropped them from the team to try and give them a boost, but nothing has worked.

Anybody got any ideas or are they just bad players?