Who will the breakthrough player at the World Cup?

rob316

In 2010 it was Mesut Ozil that every top team wanted to sign who will be that young player in this tournament do people think?

Dempsey

Lukaku

Soups123

Ross Barkley

Hollister11

Sterling or barkely

The Gibzilla

Ciro Immobile for Italy. He's coming in off the back of a good season and his confidence will be sky high having sealed his big money move to Dortmund.

Pyjamarama

Not sure immobile will start. I reckon Italy might rock one up top and if they do it'll be balo.

DrumSteve

Ill go out on a limb and say roger milla.

batistuta9

griezmann

klose

batistuta9 wrote: »

griezmann

Good shout, with ribery injured he will almost certainly be a starter too.

The Gibzilla

Pyjamarama wrote: »

Not sure immobile will start. I reckon Italy might rock one up top and if they do it'll be balo.

Hopefully he does as he's had a good season and looks a really exciting player, then again Evil Knievil wouldn't look exciting next to Ballotelli!

He may not start, but I think he's to good an option not to feature if Italy are struggling.

Dont be at yourself

Sterling could do what Owen did in '98 or Rooney in '04, if he starts. I really think he's likely be central to anything good England will do in Brazil.

Outside of England, most of the traditionally big teams have quite settled sides now and dont hold many surprises. Perhaps Griezmann will make a splash, now that Ribery is out. Insigne of Italy as well, if he gets a chance.

Paully D

Drmić.

Oxlade Chamberlain when/if he's fit. On a stormer atm

delw

Sterling if he's played enough

rob316

Sterling or barkley for me also.

Kermit.de.frog

Aiden McGeady.

fuzzydunlop85

Looking forward to seeing kovacic for Croatia tomorrow night.

amkin25

fuzzydunlop85 wrote: »

Looking forward to seeing kovacic for Croatia tomorrow night.

Decent side croatia,but they will be run ragged tomorrow night,can't see any of their players looking good.

KingJamsie

Draxler if he gets a game!

Sterling if he doesn't listen to the Hodge

Kylo Ren

Kovacic.

UnitedIrishman

Think Chile will do well so will go with Eduardo Vargas.

Kirby

I'm amused that so many people keep saying Barkley. You have to actually play to be a breakthrough player at a world cup. Beyond maybe a few minutes as a sub, he wont see much of this world cup.

Sterling might see a little more time but we all know Hodgson will pick Welbeck ahead of him if hes fit....so another odd choice from many.

If you simply must pick a Liverpool player (and its this forum....so we must), than Henderson is a much better shout. He's also coming off the back of a good season but the difference is he will probably start more games.

Ferris_Bueller

Would you count Pogba? Already a big name but fairly young and has only recently broken onto the scene at International level, reckon if France do anything he could be the star man.

bmcc10

Depay

DARK-KNIGHT

Januzaj

simongurnick

Not sure if a dude in his 30's could be considered breakthrough but Fred is vastly underrated and I feel like he could be the guy at the tail end of a lot of Brasil's moves popping it in the onion bag. The "breakthrough" for him would be a move back to Europe while he still has a couple of decent years left.
Maybe more redemption than breakthrough for him.

the incredible pudding

Ferris_Bueller wrote: »

Would you count Pogba? Already a big name but fairly young and has only recently broken onto the scene at International level, reckon if France do anything he could be the star man.

Personally I feel Valbuena will be the one to watch out for in a blue shirt. I'm looking forward to seeing more of him.

barone

park, or 'inho ... seriously , varane,sterling

kevohmsford

Serge Aurier for Côte d'Ivoire.

RayCon

In the absence of Falcao , Columbia's goals have to come from somewhere ... not sure if he counts as "breakthrough" but Jackson Martinez could have a big impact.

Di maria for breakout superstar!

xtal191

Veratti

elefant

UnitedIrishman wrote: »

Think Chile will do well so will go with Eduardo Vargas.

He was gammy for Valencia this season. Loads of running around, no brains.

Muahahaha

DrumSteve wrote: »

Ill go out on a limb and say roger milla.

What age is he now ? Oh that's right, he can't remember !

DrumSteve

Muahahaha wrote: »

What age is he now ? Oh that's right, he can't remember !

Roger is forever young and also a smashing dancer by all accounts.

Tox56

Kirby wrote: »

I'm amused that so many people keep saying Barkley. You have to actually play to be a breakthrough player at a world cup. Beyond maybe a few minutes as a sub, he wont see much of this world cup.

Sterling might see a little more time but we all know Hodgson will pick Welbeck ahead of him if hes fit....so another odd choice from many.

If you simply must pick a Liverpool player (and its this forum....so we must), than Henderson is a much better shout. He's also coming off the back of a good season but the difference is he will probably start more games.

Previously I thought the same re: Sterling and Hodgson, but recently Roy has been making a lot of fuss over how good he's been in training and what he has to offer. It could well be Lallana that loses out however

paulbok

Muahahaha wrote: »

What age is he now ? Oh that's right, he can't remember !

Not sure either but there will probably be a minutes silence for him during the next world cup or two.

HigginsJ

Jordi Clasie & Bruno Martins Indi are two who will become big stars if Holland have a good tournament.

Agree with those who suggested Griezmann & Immobile

Adamocovic

I'm going with Gotze, 22 years old still, first world cup. Germany only have really two out and out strikers with Klose and Volland so I can see Gotze stepping up and getting goals. He has scored 6 in the last 9 matches and he's played and has been outlined as a key player in the squad so I can see him getting game time. Really looking forward to his performances.

Andersonisgod

Despite Spain boasting the greatest riches of any country in midfield, I wouldn't be surprised if Koke forces his way into the side and takes the world by storm. The Atletico maestro looks like the natural successor to Xavi Hernandez in the national team when the time comes, and possibly at club level too. He's got the supreme technical ability, the insatiable engine, the vision and creativity to be the dominating midfield force in football for years to come.

Seaneh

Aleksander Kokorin is a player I expect to have a big tournament.

Sheepy99

Antoine Griezemann , Rakitic.

Lesser known Cuadrado of Colombia, Drmic of Switzerland, Pjanic of Bosnia, Amorim for Portugal.

De Bruyne will outperform Hazard and Mikel will play a lot better than what has been seen at Chelsea

MightyMandarin

Daley Blind, unbelievable performance tonight. Watched him a few times in the Eredivisie. He's relatively unknown but is a very solid defender and his attacking game reminds me of Leighton Baines or Coleman. Cracking player and can play DM aswell. There's plenty of other great, young Dutch players in the team too, Veltman, DeVrij and Clasie are all cracking talents and should emerge at the WC.

Dempsey

Daley Blind, unknown??

MightyMandarin

Dempsey wrote: »

Daley Blind, unknown??

The majority of football people I've talked to, never heard of him before tonight. The Eredivisie has some cracking players and is great to watch, but unless you play in a big European league, it's easy to become unknown.

Dempsey

MightyMandarin wrote: »

The majority of football people I've talked to, never heard of him before tonight. The Eredivisie has some cracking players and is great to watch, but unless you play in a big European league, it's easy to become unknown.

These days the majority seems to know of fúck all players bar the obvious ones. Daley Blind has been highly rated for yonks, largely i suppose because of his father but nontheless a good player at whatever level he played, but in the last 2 years has been proving himself very well indeed imo

MightyMandarin

Dempsey wrote: »

These days the majority seems to know of fúck all players bar the obvious ones. Daley Blind has been highly rated for yonks, largely i suppose because of his father but nontheless a good player at whatever level he played, but in the last 2 years has been proving himself very well indeed imo

Took a while for him to develop, he's 24, but he is already a top class FB, I believe. The talentpool in Holland atm is quite staggering really, plenty of blossoming talents who didn't make the squad.

OneEightSeven

Adamocovic wrote: »

I'm going with Gotze, 22 years old still, first world cup. Germany only have really two out and out strikers with Klose and Volland so I can see Gotze stepping up and getting goals. He has scored 6 in the last 9 matches and he's played and has been outlined as a key player in the squad so I can see him getting game time. Really looking forward to his performances.

Gotze is already highly-rated and a Champions League star. Everyone already knows who Gotze is.

Dempsey

OneEightSeven wrote: »

Gotze is already highly-rated and a Champions League star. Everyone already knows who Gotze is.

Not to mention a €37m move from one top club to another done already!

Panthro

I think that young Robben lad could be handy enough.

Dick phelan

A lot of that dutch side based on tonight Blind looked a top player, Vlaa was also outstanding they have at least 3-4 players who could be making big moves to the major leagues after the tournament. Ahmed Musa from Nigeria 21 currently plays for CSKA Moscow saw him a few times extremely quick and a quality player. Ayew for Ghana already rated quite highly but i think he will make a big impact on the Ghana team and if they can get out of the group i think he might be the breakout star for them. Bentaleb only 19 probably the best player in that Algeria squad if he has a good world cup the bigger premier league teams will be itching to sign him. Dzagoev a key man for Russia only 23 could break out like Archavin did in Euro 2008.