Dagoberto

 

Hugo Viana

 

Eh, Pongolle is doing fine.



He was useless. Unbelievably slow player.

 

Joaquín

 

My favorite youngster back then, so disappointed at how he's turned out

Ok, he made it "big" by playing for Barca, Monaco, Sevilla and Real Madrid, but if the hype was anything to go by, he should be one of the best strikers in the world right now

 

He was ruined by Barca, its not his own fault.

Lee Croft was the most capped ever at international youth level for England, and will never get near a cap. He was expected to be the next big thing at City. He won't even play against an England international as he plays for lowly Norwich.

 

He was ruined by Barca, its not his own fault.

At first I would have probably agreed with you.

But then when it was obvious it couldn't work out at Barca, why didn't he leave?

He stayed for all the money he could get and then he joined Real for money again.

Thats the disappointing part.

 

D'Allesandro, Cavenaghi

 

I think Cavenaghi will be back.

Bordeaux are doing well in the league, and sooner or later big clubs will snap up their best players.

 

Is it fair to say Anelka's made it big or not?

 

Aimar, Riquelme, D'Allesandro, Denilson, Mendieta and perhaps a Banega?

Might not be flops, but they just had so much hype around them

 

Mendieta

What? Mendieta was never that promising as a youngster, on the contrary he peaked late in his career and was one of the best midfielders in the World in 2000. Definitly joining Lazio was a huge mistake though.

I would have to say Saviola was one of the most dissapointing outcomes I have ever seen. When he was with River I was sure he would be the next big thing.

Reyes is another one.
And another is Javier Portillo. Shattered Raul's records in the youth system, and played well in his debut and first games with the A team. He was a victim of the Perez era.

 

Ever Banega?

He hasn't even been in Europe for a year. Give him time.

Though he should have come to Milan to be vice-Pirlo :stuckup:

 

I think Banega should go back to Unai Emery.Valencia should go with a future midfield of Banega and Manelele.That would kick some serious ass.

 

Riquelme? One of the finest players of his generation isn't good enough for you?

 

Well up until now he's been dissapointing... Maybe he'll break through this season.

Some players still are seen as dissapointing because people expected so much from them. Like Graham Rix. Although he made up for that with his coaching career. Gave people the totally unexpected.

 

Recoba

 

I think being the highest paid player at some point of time showed he did make it.

Anyway, D'Alessandro and Ventola.

Injuries wrecked what could have been a nice career for poor Ventola.

 

Raul Bravo

 

D'Alessandro, what a player

 

Mourad Meghni ? Philippe Christanval.

 

Clichyp

 

Mehgni is the most overhyped, in terms of never actually doing anything to justify it, I think.

Also Montano got hyped when he joined Parma for a lot of money at a young age, I can only assume the people bigging him up hadn't seen him play, cos he was shit.

 

Reyes is definitely the worst,the guy just cracked and crying of cold and all is total crap.It is not like he didn't know about it before he went there.

 

Well if you had Scholes lunging at you like he did in that game only on Reyesroud:,you'd bitch too:howler:.

 

so many valencia and ex-valencia players listed:
viana
joaquin
mendieta
banega
aimar

some of them dont make sense? Ever BANEGA?!!?! He just came last season.

 

Michael Dawson looked very good some years ago, even on the books for the english NT, but he's been getting worse and worse

 

i think Cavenaghi will be back to his 02 - 04 form when everybody compared him with the great Batigol...no doubt that he is the best natural # 9 for argentina...

as for others, d'alessandro, saviola and ernesto chevanton are certainly there...

an year ago, i would have said luis fabiano, but he turned his fortune in Sevilla

 

Mitea, Sanmartean, Cernat, Stoica

Mitea = best young player in the neths... now a reserve at Dinamo

Sanmartean = once considered most technical player in Greece.... without a club

Cernat = considered Hagi's replacement... reserve at Kiyv

Stoica = the little prince and legend for Anderlecht without a club now

 

Stoica = the little prince and legend for Anderlecht without a club now

Alin Stoica is the biggest waste in Romanian football, I´ll never stop saying this.
Right now he should be easily a Top10 in European midfielders...but you see where he ended.


80% of creative Romanian players in the last years failed at some point. Knowing this it´s not a mystery what the NT lacks right now.

 

Whatever happened to that Brazilian kid in Lyon of a couple of seasons back? Fred is his name i think? He was supposed to be the next big thing but you rarely hear about him anymore.

 

Fred is still at Lyon, he's been overshadowed by Benzema a bit.

Still a very good player, imo.