Flash in the pan footballers - Freddy Adu Syndrome??

razorblunt

Say Your Number wrote: »

He did his cruciate ligament a few months after joining Chelsea and never played again.

I thought he broke both his legs in a collision with a keeper? David James or Shaka Hislop?

Say Your Number

razorblunt wrote: »

I thought he broke both his legs in a collision with a keeper? David James or Shaka Hislop?

He did his cruciate in a collision with Hislop, thats what it says in a few different websites.

razorblunt

Say Your Number wrote: »

He did his cruciate in a collision with Hislop, thats what it says in a few different websites.

Ah no big deal either way way, the broken legs were stuck in my head for some reason!

Panrich

Liam Miller. From Old Trafford to Perth Glory via Sunderland and QPR.

tallaghtmick

barone wrote: »

zoran tosic (man utd,reported 12million) has since been sold to cska

lazy player who didnt wanna push himself to be better.

Johner

Unearthly wrote: »

Amr Zaki. Was leading scorer in Prem for the first 3 months of 08/09 season including a cracking goal against Liverpool.

Now he is at an Egyptian club, and had a poor loan spell at Hull City

Good shout, his attitude was shocking.

Beefy78

discobeaker wrote: »

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Silenzi

and

Jason Lee aka he's got a pineapple on his head!

Surely to qualify for this, you'd have to have once been any good? I used to watch Lee at Southend (on the odd occasion when he ever got into our team) and he was useless. Forest signed him the year after they'd bought Collymore off of us and the contrast between the two couldn't be more pronounced.

Beefy78

Captain Havoc wrote: »

What was the name of that Scottish young lad back in the 90's that was at Ajax, he was going to set the world alight.

English. Incredible shout though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Pike

WhiteRussian

Thought of a great one from back at the beginning of the millenium; Richard Wright! Haha!

MichaelM1987 wrote: »

Helder Postiga at Spurs
Nicolas Medina at Sunderland
Jody Morris at Chelsea
Jon Harley at Chelsea
Vicente Matias Vuoso at Man City
Bosko Balaban at Aston Villa
Corrado Grabbi at Blackburn
Ade Akinbiyi at Leicester
Hamilton Ricard at Boro
Agustin Delgado at Southampton
Lilian Laslandes at Sunderland
Tore Andre Flo at Sunderland
Massimo Maccarone at Boro

Thought he was the **** for a while, such a let down!

tommyhaas wrote: »

A few that spring to mind are Claudio Lopez, Ivan De Le Pena and Alvaro Recoba. De le Pena in particular looked some player but it all went down hill when he went to Lazio. I know he did well when he went back to Spain, but he never really reached the heights that were expected

Anti-Lazio much? Despite their sheer likeability over the other big team in Rome

Say Your Number wrote: »

David Bellion
Kieran Richardson
Klaas Jan Huntelaar

BelliLOL

Muff_Daddy

Moneymaker wrote: »

Marcus Stewart and Kevin Phillips say hi.

James Beattie also.

Have you looked into that man's career? He was rejected at Southampton as a youth, ended up at the 'mighty' Baldock Town, and worked his way up the football league to Sunderland and earned himself the European Golden Boot award in 2000!

This thread is for players who, for whatever reason, had their promising career's fade out much earlier than they were supposed to, eg Lampety. Last season, Phillips was the oldest outfield player to play in the Premier League, and he scored in most games he started for Brum last season at 37! That's an amazing career considering where he started, not a flash in the pan. To mention his name in this thread is quite possibly the most retarded thing I have ever read in this forum.

Paully D

Did anyone catch the feature on Freddy Adu by Football Focus over the weekend? I missed it myself, short preview video on the link below:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22208072

At the age of 14 Ghana-born Freddy Adu was touted as the new Pele. The former Benfica player, now 23, talks to Football Focus about how this affected his career.

The attacking midfielder currently plays for Bahia in Brazil, where he is on loan from Major League Soccer side Philadelphia Union.

You can watch the full exclusive interview on Football Focus, BBC World News, Friday 20:30 GMT.

COYVB

Sasa Curcic! Looked almost superhuman at times for Bolton with his mazy runs and solo efforts, before moving to villa for £4.5m and disappearing soon afterwards. I think he joined the army