Players that could have been way bigger.

dbnavan

Just looking over some old stats


David Kelly had a great scoring record for ireland but couldnt get a foot fully in the door ahead of aldo, cas, an quinner

John Byrne had a good return too.....

Gerry Payton wasnt bad but couldnt get near Bonner's shirt

Anymore?

damienom

Can't remember him myself but wasn't Garry Waddock meant to be pretty handy but plauged with knee injuries

The Muppet

Razor Ruddock was pretty big but I suppose a couple of trips a week to MC Donalds and he could have been even bigger.

TheMonster

The Muppet wrote:

Razor Ruddock was pretty big but I suppose a couple of trips a week to MC Donalds and he could have been even bigger.

lol - was thinking about Jan Molby but don't thinkhe could have been any bigger!!:D

PHB

Ryan Giggs could have had the life and popularity of David Beckham but rejected it

Roddy23

Probably the one player, who could have been one of the best around:
Georgio Lentini, was brilliant for Torino -cue a 15£million transfer to (think it was) Milan. After one week there,was involved in a car crash, and never again recovered to become the player that had promised so much.

Other players who looked like been was bigger: Gaizka Mendieta and Ivan de la Pena.

Hippo

Lee Sharpe, a great talent.

Big Nelly

Mark Kennedy

Loomis

Kinkladze
Okocha
Kanu
Prosinecki

gracehopper

Kieran Dyer
Jerome Rothen
Karel poborsky
Alan Shearer - Signed for the wrong team
Pizzaro - Bayern player
Colin Healey
Pablo Aimar
Liam Miller
Riquelme - He's great but he should be one of the best in the world but isnt quite there
Raul Tamudo

anonymous_joe

gracehopper wrote:

Kieran Dyer
Jerome Rothen
Karel poborsky
Alan Shearer - Signed for the wrong team
Pizzaro - Bayern player
Colin Healey
Pablo Aimar
Liam Miller
Riquelme - He's great but he should be one of the best in the world but isnt quite there
Raul Tamudo

Fairly successful at Valencia though? *Edit* Aimar that is.

As regards Riquelme, he was a right disaster at Barca, though I always liked him, seen as he was one of the best Champo/FM players...

Kingp35

Michael Bridges.

He had a fantastic first season with Leeds in the Premiership. Injuries took over his career then and he suffered one bad injury after the next. Could have been a to striker. Still a favourite at Leeds

gracehopper

anonymous_joe wrote:

Fairly successful at Valencia though? *Edit* Aimar that is.

As regards Riquelme, he was a right disaster at Barca, though I always liked him, seen as he was one of the best Champo/FM players...

Yeah both Aimar and Riquelme are 2 of my favourites and are successful in their own right but i thought they could have been bigger than they are now, meaning as good as Ronaldinho, Zidane (in his day)

AnCapaillMor

He'd be more of a talent waster, but anelka could've been huge, instead he decided to an asshole. Kevin hofland, very promising never fulfilled what he could've done. aghahowa, actually besides the cartwheels was there anything else?

Pigman II

dbnavan wrote:

Just looking over some old stats


David Kelly had a great scoring record for ireland but couldnt get a foot fully in the door ahead of aldo, cas, an quinner

John Byrne had a good return too.....

Gerry Payton wasnt bad but couldnt get near Bonner's shirt

Anymore?

Kelly and Byrne were good alright. Certainly better backup strikers thand what we have in at the moment.

Peyton was a top keeper too. IIRC he was first choice for Ireland for a short while under Hand but I think his prospects suffered during the Charlton years because of not ever being settled at a decent club. Towards the end he was playing even in the old "division 3" with Bournmouth but if you'd seen some of his performances for Ireland (esp NornIron away in 1988) you'd be puzzled as to why that was!

p.pete

Bruno Cheyrou - could have been the next Zidane (who knows? maybe he will yet be)
Salif Diao - next Vieira

Garret

AnCapaillMor wrote:

He'd be more of a talent waster, but anelka could've been huge, instead he decided to an asshole. Kevin hofland, very promising never fulfilled what he could've done. aghahowa, actually besides the cartwheels was there anything else?

Kevin never recovered from that injury really

the problem with aghahowa is that no-one really knows his age, so when some were saying he was a brilliant prospect teams were wary because rumours were he was 5 years older than he said.

anonymous_joe

Anyone remember Basturk from Leverkusen in the Champions League final era?