players who didnt live up to their hype

partyndbs

can only be 1 man

FREDDY ADU

least he was meetin jojo tho a few yrs back so not all bad lol

TerryTibbs!

Freddy Adu is actually about 33

partyndbs

then when he was goin out with jojo he was a paedo she was only like 15. i think the rumours are that hes 6 yrs older than he is which would make him 27

parker kent

Sonny Pike is a good candidate. An age-old story of a country thinking it has the greatest thing on earth on their hands only for him to end up on the scrap heap.

Whatever happened to Sonny Pike?" asks Dan Williamson. "I'm certain that years ago I watched a documentary about him and learned that he was England's brightest-ever prospect. I am also sure that he trained with the Ajax youth side."

Sonny - the nephew of ex-Tottenham striker Mark Falco - became semi-famous after was invited to join Ajax's Academy of Excellence at the age of seven. Sadly, as this website explains, his dreams of a professional career ended a couple of years ago. "Sonny is currently living near Dundee, and is studying psychology at Dundee University. He found the pressures of top-class football too much, and in 2003 decided to pursue a more regular career - having been privy to sports psychologists, he decided to follow that path. Nonetheless, he still has a fervent passion for the game, playing Sunday league football for Dryburgh Saints, as well as weekly five-a-side fixtures against other students."

"He is currently training for a Scottish FA coaching certificate, and as part of this, he coaches two primary school teams in the area. Although he doesn't support a local team, he goes to matches regularly, purely for his love of the game. Sonny says that he's much happier away from professional football. The pressure placed on him by his club, agents, sponsors and, to a lesser extent, the media made him suffer a nervous breakdown in October 2000, whilst still part of the Ajax youth squad."

"I couldn't take it, and I got ill, really screwed up," Sonny adds. "I stopped going to training and stuff, because I was so screwed up I couldn't hack it. Looking back, it's amazing how low I was. Ajax completely forgot about me, they didn't want to know, but as soon as I was better, they acted like they'd always been there for me. I realised how superficial it is at that level, and if I hadn't got back to form I bet they would have turfed me out. That's why I packed it in, it's so unstable. I guess it was during that period that I realised how much psychologists can help people, and I suppose I took it from there."

Ganymede Glow

Mark Gonzalez the little bastard

whiskeyman

Andy Carroll!

lol!!

RasTa

Can you type in English from now on partyndbs?

tonycascarino

Joey Lapira

major bill

Robin Friday.......

well before my time but I read the biography of him its called ''the greatest player who never saw'' if anyone wants to google it..interesting read.

SlickRic

TerryTibbs! wrote: »

Freddy Adu is actually about 33

partyndbs wrote: »

then when he was goin out with jojo he was a paedo she was only like 15. i think the rumours are that hes 6 yrs older than he is which would make him 27

he's 21.

i don't know who the holy fúck you guys are talking about.

Seaneh

TerryTibbs! wrote: »

Freddy Adu is actually about 33

Despite the fact that he's grown several inches since his international debut and has lived in the US since he was in primary school...

partyndbs

when FD came out ppl from his hometown in ghana said he was 6 yrs older than he claimed to be

RasTa

Who on earth is jojo anyway?

partyndbs

absolute babe thats who

parker kent

RasTa wrote: »

Who on earth is jojo anyway?

Lazily I'm using Wiki to answer this instead of typing....how do people miss out on people who are on TV, radio etc a lot?

Joanna Noëlle Blagden Levesque (born December 20, 1990), professionally known as JoJo, is an American recording artist and actress. After competing on the television show, America's Most Talented Kids, she was noticed by record producer Vincent Herbert who asked her to audition for Blackground Records.

She's 21 now and all grown up....:pac:

Mr. Presentable

Take your pick from any of the top squads in the last decade. When they arrive their supporters hype them up so as you'd think they were going to do fates and s41t wonders.

The only Man U player of the last decade who lived up to the hype was C Ronaldo. Rooney came close. Torres was going to be world emperor and win it all dragging Liverpool FC behind him. Arshavin was the missing link between Arsenal coming third and being Barcelona 2.0.

Seaneh

partyndbs wrote: »

when FD came out ppl from his hometown in ghana said he was 6 yrs older than he claimed to be

So he passed for a 6 year old at the age of 12. When he moved to the states?


Not ****ing likely.

The same stuff gets said about Obafemi Martins and it, too, is bull****.

Some bright spark in here also tried to say the same thing about Roman Lukaku, despite the fact that he was born and raised in Belgium, where his father was a pro. Footballer.

SlickRic

ok ok...let's start getting on topic or I'm locking this...

RasTa

parker kent wrote: »

Lazily I'm using Wiki to answer this instead of typing....how do people miss out on people who are on TV, radio etc a lot?



She's 21 now and all grown up....:pac:

I don't have TV, well I have a TV but no NTL etc.

D'Agger

Real Betis broke the transfer record for him iirc and everybody thought he was going to set the world alight - never happened for him

partyndbs

ah denilson the stepover king

starviewadams

Erik Meijer
Jean Michel Ferri
Sean Dundee

maximoose

As a Leeds fan the one that sticks out to me like a sore thumb is Roque Junior. Massive excitement when he came in from AC Milan on loan, gives away a goal and gets sent off on his debut and we conceded something like 24 goals in his 7 matches.

What a flop.

stumpypeeps

On the subject of players being much older than they say they are, apparently this is a well known tactic. If you have a 17 year old with decent talent and no birth cert, its a common tactic to say he's 14 or 15 to help him on his way. Obviously he looks great in comparison to his peers.

We all remember Moyes suggesting Yakuba was a "Nigerian 26".

Similar rumours obviously surround Adu. Also the great George Weah was apparently much older than he suggested.


On the actual subject of players who didn't live up to their hype. One word. Zlatan.

James_LWAU

Francis Jeffers :P

massdebater

Anderson

SlickRic

Zlatan should be nowhere near this thread.

at the end of the day he's won league after league after league on the trot, and looks like doing so again this year.

that's not by accident.

he underperforms in the Champions League, granted, but he certainly, in a broad sense anyway, has fulfilled the bulk of his potential.

Max Power1

Richard Wright.

Jose Reyes

mink_man

anthony le tallec, where's the article that said when ronaldo and himself moved to their respective clubs, and the article said their paths would surely cross as two of the best players in the world. LOLZ

stumpypeeps

SlickRic wrote: »

Zlatan should be nowhere near this thread.

at the end of the day he's won league after league after league on the trot, and looks like doing so again this year.

that's not by accident.

he underperforms in the Champions League, granted, but he certainly, in a broad sense anyway, has fulfilled the bulk of his potential.

Its not about fulfilling his potential though, its about living up to the hype. I have heard so much about him since he was 17. Just for me personally he's being the biggest disappointment.

Eirebear

James_LWAU wrote: »

Francis Jeffers :P

First person i thought of when i saw this thread.

On personal experience, he is one of the worst players i have ever seen in a Rangers jersey. He's even struggling to make his mark at Motherwell nowadays.

StupidLikeAFox

Robbie Keane?

Im not saying he didnt fulfill his potential, he's still a great player, but there was a lot hype when he was younger, especially around the Inter move, you would swear he was gonna be the next Ronaldo

James_LWAU

Kyle Moran also

Johner

Cherno Samba - the bastard was a machine in Championship Manager.

maximoose

Francesco Totti.

parker kent

stumpypeeps wrote: »

On the subject of players being much older than they say they are, apparently this is a well known tactic. If you have a 17 year old with decent talent and no birth cert, its a common tactic to say he's 14 or 15 to help him on his way. Obviously he looks great in comparison to his peers.

We all remember Moyes suggesting Yakuba was a "Nigerian 26".

Similar rumours obviously surround Adu. Also the great George Weah was apparently much older than he suggested.


On the actual subject of players who didn't live up to their hype. One word. Zlatan.

Things like this happening don't help those rumours.

Nigeria have dropped 15 players from the Under-17 team after the majority of the squad failed an age test, NFF spokesman Ademola Olajire said in a press statement on Tuesday.

“Head coach John Obuh explained that the players were dropped based on performance as well as the results of the MRI tests conducted on all the players recently,” he said.

The players dropped from the squad are Kabiru Borgo, Abiodun Akande, Ariyo Olubukola, Habeeb Bello, Deji Joel, Yakubu Azeez, Ogungbe Ganiyu, Orji Alu, Justice Chinedu, Chinedu Udegha, Amadi Moses, Solomon Enudi,Dubem Awaziem, Esse Joseph Junior and Olaitan Gambari.

http://www.kickoff.com/news/10615/nigeria-axe-15-from-under-17s.php

TheRedDevil10

Eric Djemba-Djemba

Johner

maximoose wrote: »

Francesco Totti.

just lol.

mink_man

kleberson, julio baptiste

OhNoYouDidn't

maximoose wrote: »

Francesco Totti.

I assume you mean world class player who never got the hype he deserved?

starviewadams

Zlatan was class at Ajax in his early years

TheRedDevil10

Hernan Crespo

Blatter

Ricardo Quaresma and Alvaro Recoba.

maximoose

OhNoYouDidn't wrote: »

I assume you mean world class player who never got the hype he deserved?

My afternoon slump is being countered by some half-assed trolling attempts

Was it Bruno Cheyrou or Anthony Le Tallec that was lauded as "the next Zidane"?

OhNoYouDidn't

starviewadams wrote: »

Zlatan was class at Ajax in his early years

And he still is....

I'm not sure what a player who has played for Barca, Juve, Milan and Inter, wining titles at all of them and accolades like Serie A golden boot and player of the year has to do to win people over. I'm convinved the Zlatan bashing is as a result of Dunphy having a go at him

If thats a flop of a career...?!?

missingtime

TheRedDevil10 wrote: »

Hernan Crespo

Club

* Primera División Argentina: 1993 (Apertura), 1994 (Apertura), 1996 (Apertura)
* Copa Libertadores: 1996
* UEFA Cup: 1999
* Coppa Italia: 1999
* Italian Super Cup: 1999, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2008
* FA Community Shield: 2005
* Premier League: 2006
* Serie A: 2007, 2008, 2009

Country

* 1995 Mar del Plata: Gold Medalist
* 1996 Summer Olympics: Silver Medalist

Runner-up: FIFA Confederations Cup, 1995

Individual

* 1996 Summer Olympics: Top Scorer
* Coppa Italia Capocannoniere: 1999 and 2007 with 4 goals in 4 matches
* FIFA 100
* Serie A top scorer 2000–01
* World Cup Silver Boot: 2006
* Primera División Argentina top scorer: 1994 (with River Plate)

_blank_

OhNoYouDidn't wrote: »

If thats a flop of a career...?!?

clearly....he hasn't played for Rovers :pac:

StupidLikeAFox

Johner wrote: »

Cherno Samba - the bastard was a machine in Championship Manager.

On this note, Ton Ton Zola Moukoko!

GLaDOS

maximoose wrote: »

My afternoon slump is being countered by some half-assed trolling attempts

Was it Bruno Cheyrou or Anthony Le Tallec that was lauded as "the next Zidane"?

Cheyrou, though it was by Houllier in fairness

starviewadams

Wasn't Biscan compared with Zidane at some stage by Houllier as well?

massdebater

Danny Cadamarteri