Christ. If you'd had to watch him repeatedly kick the ball directly to an opposing striker, you wouldn't forget he existed. The very bottom rung of a desperate succession of keepers after Schmikes left.
Players you had forgotten existed
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Christ. If you'd had to watch him repeatedly kick the ball directly to an opposing striker, you wouldn't forget he existed. The very bottom rung of a desperate succession of keepers after Schmikes left.
Rory Fallon. Retired last year I think.
These were the last few years of his career
2013–2014 St Johnstone 8 (1)
2014 Crawley Town 8 (0)
2014–2015 Scunthorpe United 4 (3)
2016 Bristol Rovers 3 (0)
2016 Truro City 12 (0)
2017 Torquay United 5 (0)
2017 Dorchester Town 1 (0)
He was absolutely hopeless.
Still, he scored one of the best goals I’ve seen in person in a Scottish Cup semi final, that we went onto lose
Micah Richards
Scored one of the best goals I’ve seen in person in a Scottish Cup semi final, that we went onto lose
World Class I watched him play for Argyle a fair few times when I lived in Plymouth. He definitely frustrated a few fans, but also seemed like a lovely guy to have at the club!
Royston Drenthe. Remember he was highly rated as a youngster, managed to get a transfer to Real Madrid then went on to the big boys in Everton & Reading.
Bernard from Shakhtar, free agent since last month and still 25, it actually wouldn't be the worst idea to sign him.
Gomes from Barcelona. It's like they found him hiding down the back of the sofa at the nou camp and are trying to give him away.
Going to Everton it seems
Morten Gamst Pedersen. I swear he was in the Blackburn team for what felt like the entirety of my school years and the bastard always turned up against us and never against anyone else seemingly.
Think we got linked with him too before he went there. He’s apparently back at Tromsø now and 36 year olds which amazed me because I thought he’d be 40.
Think we got linked with him too before he went there. He’s apparently back at Tromsø now and 36 year olds which amazed me because I thought he’d be 40.
Oscar.
Anders Lindegaard - to think he actually challenged De Gea for the GK-spot seems crazy now, but at the time he was more consistent IMO (consistently average that is)
Anders Lindegaard - to think he actually challenged De Gea for the GK-spot seems crazy now, but at the time he was more consistent IMO (consistently average that is)
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completely forgot Alex Song. Was out of club for a few months, has now joined Swiss club FC Sion. Still only 30.
Micah Richards.
Afonso Alves.
Junichi Inamoto and Henri Camara both still play. Camara is 41.
I find this an oddly calming thought.
I find this an oddly calming thought.
Freddy Adu lol
Huntelaar!
Ashley Ward. Then I saw an epsiode of The Real Housewives of Cheshire. It's not as good as The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. But it's much better than The Real Housewives of Orange County.
Diego Tristan
Altidore. I saw him play a few weeks ago for Toronto FC and he scored. He never did that in England.
Yann M'Vila & Adam Ounas.
Used to be rated in Ligue 1. Wonder what happened to their careers.
Used to be rated in Ligue 1. Wonder what happened to their careers.
Martial
Ozil
M’Vila strikes me as the type that’d be in China now.
He went to Russia and disappeared for a bit then popped up at QPR and nothing didn’t he?
Andreas Lindegaard
Ohh yeah completely forgotten about his QPR stint. He was linked with us before he joined QPR iirc. Heard nothing about him since then.
Stephen Carr. Tasty fullback for Spurs in his day - might be right in thinking he was linked to us at one point but injury scuppered it.
Saw Emmanual Adebayor pop up with that Turkish team that Burnley are playing against in the EL last week. Didn't realize he was still playing. Wasn't even on the bench for them
Yoan Gourcuff - gonna be the new Zidane one day.
He's 32.
He's 32.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yann_M'Vila
Turns out it was Sunderland not QPR, who the hell played for QPR then?
Back at Ajax which kinda makes me happy. Although he started at PSV and Heerenveen I like it when players return to the clubs of their youth.
Kinda hoping Ronaldo will return to Sporting once his Juve stint is finished.
Could name loads of players that were supposed to be big things from the Barcelona academy - only for them to be remembered by Internet Memes and failed Wonderkid compilations on YouTube.
Bojan, Christian Tello, Jeffren and Cuenca etc...
Bojan, Christian Tello, Jeffren and Cuenca etc...
Mbia?
Mateja Kežman
Who does he play for these days?
Suddenly thought of RVP the other day while playing football
No idea, but I'd love to see more of him
Good shout
Abou Diaby, for obvious reasons, had a quick glance at his transfermarkt profile and unfortunately it seems that nothing has changed with him, poor fecker.
Yeah, saw that he scored for Ajax and thought „wow, Huntelaar still exists!“.
Never disliked him. He‘s probably underrated, too.
Alex Song.
Just moved to FC Sion in Switzerland, crazy how his transfer to Barcelona ruined his career.
Just moved to FC Sion in Switzerland, crazy how his transfer to Barcelona ruined his career.