Players Who Never Quite Reached Their Potential
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Re: Players Who Never Quite Reached Their PotentialAbsolutely agree with you especially Drenthe(Original post by cup)
Antonio Valencia & Drenthe off the top of my head. -
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Re: Players Who Never Quite Reached Their PotentialWhat? Ali Dia reached his potential and then smashed it. I've never seen another player who has ever been able to actually be better than his potential allowed him to be. Even Messi hasn't fulfilled his full potential, whereas Dia more than fulfilled his. In short, Ali Dia is better than Messi.(Original post by mirin?)
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Re: Players Who Never Quite Reached Their PotentialShevchenko?! He's won the bloody Ballon'dor!(Original post by singleandrich)
Ryan BABEL
Bobby Zamora
kEVIN DAVIES
Andy Carroll
Shevchenko
Ballack
Deco
Carlo Ancelotti
And Carroll is only 22, I'd hope he hasn't yet reached his potential! -
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Re: Players Who Never Quite Reached Their Potentialyeah win a flipping Ballon'dor and flop whilst playing abroad.(Original post by Torrresss)
Shevchenko?! He's won the bloody Ballon'dor!
And Carroll is only 22, I'd hope he hasn't yet reached his potential!
same goes for MESSI(wait and see).
ANDY CARROLL is only 22 hmmm. how much time do we have left? -
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Re: Players Who Never Quite Reached Their PotentialCare to explain this one?(Original post by singleandrich)
yeah win a flipping Ballon'dor and flop whilst playing abroad.
same goes for MESSI(wait and see).
ANDY CARROLL is only 22 hmmm. how much time do we have left? -
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Re: Players Who Never Quite Reached Their PotentialI don't quite see how Ronaldo could have got better. He started to gain a lot of weight in his very late Madrid days and ended up playing for some of the best teams in the world. Honours: 2 Ballon D'Ors, 3 FIFA Player of the Year awards, FIFA 100 greatest living players, 62 international goals in 97 games, most goals in the WC's ever, World Cup Golden Ball and Shoe, 247 goals in 343 games, 2 WC winner's medals, 2 Copa Americas etc etc The only thing he didn't win was a Champions League medal(Original post by rorydaredking)
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.
And the weight started to affect him to the point of no return at the same age Sheva lost his form - 29/30
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Re: Players Who Never Quite Reached Their PotentialWell Carroll has about 7/8 left to reach his potential.(Original post by singleandrich)
yeah win a flipping Ballon'dor and flop whilst playing abroad.
same goes for MESSI(wait and see).
ANDY CARROLL is only 22 hmmm. how much time do we have left?
As for Shevchenko, he had reached his peak before joining chelsea. I'm not denying he was a flop. But he reached massive heights for AC Milan, was named top 10 player in the world for 6 consecutive years, is Milan's 3rd top scorer ever etc. Not to mention his exploits as a Dynamo player! -
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Re: Players Who Never Quite Reached Their PotentialI think thats the point. He did all that despite having some pretty bad injuries. Imagine how good he could have been if he had never had a serious injury?(Original post by Reggio)
I don't quite see how Ronaldo could have got better. He started to gain a lot of weight in his very late Madrid days and ended up playing for some of the best teams in the world. Honours: 2 Ballon D'Ors, 3 FIFA Player of the Year awards, FIFA 100 greatest living players, 62 international goals in 97 games, most goals in the WC's ever, World Cup Golden Ball and Shoe, 247 goals in 343 games, 2 WC winner's medals, 2 Copa Americas etc etc The only thing he didn't win was a Champions League medal And the weight started to affect him to the point of no return at the same age Sheva lost his form - 29/30
His injuries stole a fair bit of his pace aswell. -
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Re: Players Who Never Quite Reached Their PotentialNot complicated. He is a winger who has spent much of the last 6 years being played out of position.(Original post by Jim-Jam)
Joe Cole, I mean, what position does he play? Winger for England, attacking midfield msot of the time...?? -
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Re: Players Who Never Quite Reached Their PotentialWhat?(Original post by cup)
Antonio Valencia & Drenthe off the top of my head.
He is a regular starter for one of the best teams in the world, arguably his countries best ever player, and yet you don't think he has reached his potential? -
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Re: Players Who Never Quite Reached Their Potentialabsolutely most definitely.(Original post by marcusmerehay)
keiron dyer has got to be up there. -
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Re: Players Who Never Quite Reached Their PotentialGeorge Best as well maybe? All the players/managers/supporters of that time seem to believe that he had much more to offer and could have been even better. His downward trail in football started when he was only 22 so in theory that was still before his physical peak.
And the weight started to affect him to the point of no return at the same age Sheva lost his form - 29/30
