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Players who look pretty garbage...
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Fri Feb 28, 2014 3:41 pmby Alioune DVToure
... but go somewhere else and become ace.
Reading about Savic got me thinking about Boateng (who wasn't garbage but was very much dispensable). Which players are the best examples of this irritating phenomenon?
Off the top of my head, Jon Dahl Tomasson. Woeful at Newcastle, top at Feyenoord and Milan.
Re: Players who look pretty garbage...
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Fri Feb 28, 2014 3:54 pmby Foreverinbluedreams
Diego Forlan
Re: Players who look pretty garbage...
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Fri Feb 28, 2014 4:00 pmby Alioune DVToure
Foreverinbluedreams wrote:Diego Forlan
Yeah, great example!
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Fri Feb 28, 2014 4:12 pmby Bridge'srightfoot
Alioune DVToure wrote:Foreverinbluedreams wrote:Diego Forlan
Yeah, great example!
Tbh think he's the ultimate example of this.
Kevin Prince Boateng maybe?
Re: Players who look pretty garbage...
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Fri Feb 28, 2014 5:01 pmby Alex Sapphire
Gerard Piqué
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Fri Feb 28, 2014 6:15 pmby Bianchi on Ice
valerian Ismael.
utter flop at palace but within three years was playing CL at bayern
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Fri Feb 28, 2014 6:35 pmby lovecity8utd
Garry birtles and tony woodcock
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Fri Feb 28, 2014 6:47 pmby sheikh it all about
Pogba.
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Fri Feb 28, 2014 6:54 pmby Wooders
If you mean our boeteng he is still pretty shit for Bayern
Re: Players who look pretty garbage...
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Fri Feb 28, 2014 8:35 pmby Alioune DVToure
sheikh it all about wrote:Pogba.
Bizarre that he couldn't get a game for Cleverley being in his way. I'm not sure he looked garbage, though. I'm pretty sure he was always considered a good prospect.
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Fri Feb 28, 2014 10:15 pmby twosips
sheikh it all about wrote:Pogba.
Not sure you can count a highly rated teenage prospect who hadn't really broken into the team yet as an example tbh
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Fri Feb 28, 2014 11:08 pmby LookMumImOnMCF.net
Gervinho's pre and post-Arsenal career is pretty astonishing in comparison. He's even sorted his barnet out. Kind of.
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Fri Feb 28, 2014 11:24 pmby AG7
Chamakh
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Fri Feb 28, 2014 11:38 pmby Yaya Toure is a LAD
Van Wolfswinkel
Great name
No skill
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Fri Feb 28, 2014 11:45 pmby chef
Paul power
Colin Hendry
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Fri Feb 28, 2014 11:45 pmby Dunnylad
Yaya Toure is a LAD wrote:Van Wolfswinkel Great name No skill
how's that, crap player goes onto greatness? VW has been found out like Samaras
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Fri Feb 28, 2014 11:55 pmby Slim
Ricky van Wolfswinkel is just an awesome name, if he was good at football as well pundits and commentators would be talking about him all the time, the name would be used too much and lose it's defined level of "awesome". He is crap at football so people can enjoy his name.
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Sat Mar 01, 2014 7:07 amby sheikh it all about
twosips wrote: Not sure you can count a highly rated teenage prospect who hadn't really broken into the team yet as an example tbh
But aren't they the world's best at nurturing talent? That's what they tell us.
Fair comment though.
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Sat Mar 01, 2014 7:16 amby bayblue
Does it count to have players who seem to have done this whilst at the same club? In which case Ramsey and Koscielny ....
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Sat Mar 01, 2014 9:29 amby Michael Brookes
bayblue wrote:Does it count to have players who seem to have done this whilst at the same club? In which case Ramsey and Koscielny ....
In the same vein I'd say Drogba or "Drogshit" as he was affectionately known in the early Chelsea days.
Randomly this thread made me think of sibierski.... 50p head for us who couldn't buy a goal, signs for Newcastle and becomes shearer for a season.
Forlan is the ultimate though.