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    Re: Players Who Never Quite Reached Their Potential
    (Original post by forex)
    Nani
    Anderson
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    Gervinho
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    Nani had an amazing season last year and is always progressing, and its too early to put Gervinho in that list.

    Quraesma and Babel however never were consistent enough and Robhino never quite showed the perm what he could do, Huntelaar never made it at a big team even though he looked good.
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    Dean Ashton anyone?
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    (Original post by praj1)
    he never reached his potential in the PL
    so,football does exist outside england..... and he was EUROPEAN player of the year if thats not reaching potential what is?
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    Simply because he has too much potential, there was so much potential that if he had reached his full potential he would make everyone look crap... Nobody would ever beat him
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    Re: Players Who Never Quite Reached Their Potential
    (Original post by praj1)
    he never reached his potential in the PL
    Are you SERIOUS? He was like 35+ by the time he reached the PL. I'm speechless.
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    I think Dean Ashton could've been England standard if he kept out of injury. Other English players who could be better are Nicky Shorey, Steve Sidwell, perhaps Glen Johnson if he kept his form up.
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    Re: Players Who Never Quite Reached Their Potential
    (Original post by stubear)
    so,football does exist outside england..... and he was EUROPEAN player of the year if thats not reaching potential what is?
    world player of the year
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    Are you SERIOUS? He was like 35+ by the time he reached the PL. I'm speechless.
    still there was so much said about him....for £35 million he should have been an integral part of our lineup....but just flopped
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    Re: Players Who Never Quite Reached Their Potential
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    still there was so much said about him....for £35 million he should have been an integral part of our lineup....but just flopped
    do you you actually know why he flopped? in short he was completely unsuited to mourinho's tactics, the only postion he fitted in was at CF but due to Drogba he never got to have a decent run of games through the middle....

    and he wasn't as bad as people think he was yes, he was prolific but all things considering he was hardly a flop/failure, just an underacheiver
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    Re: Players Who Never Quite Reached Their Potential
    (Original post by praj1)
    look im a chelsea fan... and at the end of the day the tactics or anything dont matter....what does is that the club bought a player for 35 million who only scored like 5 goals....in was it 3 seasons?

    thats a flop
    He scored 22 in 76. Not word beating, but probably better than most strikers in the prem. Stop defending your theory, he most certainly reached his potential, it's just that it was before he came to chelsea, bought at his peak, he could only get worse.

    And lol at people saying players who are early 20's like Nani and Walcott... FFS, they're still young, years from their anticipated peak, give them a chance.

    Best shout on the page is definitely brazillian Ronaldo, epic player, but could have been better.
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