Players who look pretty garbage...

[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.

[Foreverinbluedreams]

Diego Forlan

[Alioune DVToure]

Diego Forlan

Yeah, great example!

[Bridge'srightfoot]

Diego Forlan

Yeah, great example!

Tbh think he's the ultimate example of this.
Kevin Prince Boateng maybe?

[Alex Sapphire]

Gerard Piqué

[Bianchi on Ice]

valerian Ismael.

utter flop at palace but within three years was playing CL at bayern

[lovecity8utd]

Garry birtles and tony woodcock

[sheikh it all about]

Pogba.

[Wooders]

If you mean our boeteng he is still pretty shit for Bayern

[Alioune DVToure]

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.

[twosips]

Pogba.

Not sure you can count a highly rated teenage prospect who hadn't really broken into the team yet as an example tbh

[LookMumImOnMCF.net]

Gervinho's pre and post-Arsenal career is pretty astonishing in comparison. He's even sorted his barnet out. Kind of.

[AG7]

Chamakh

[Yaya Toure is a LAD]

Van Wolfswinkel

Great name

No skill

[chef]

Paul power
Colin Hendry

[Dunnylad]

Van Wolfswinkel Great name No skill

how's that, crap player goes onto greatness? VW has been found out like Samaras

[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.

[sheikh it all about]

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.

[bayblue]

Does it count to have players who seem to have done this whilst at the same club? In which case Ramsey and Koscielny ....

[Michael Brookes]

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.