Unremarkable players that had interesting careers
- Thread starter Classical Mechanic
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Immediately thought of him.
In a 16 year career he only played 201 games.
In 4 years at Chelsea 2000-2004 (whilst earning £40k a week) he played 11 times. He retired after his Chelsea contract ended.
Maxi Lopez. Played for a few big teams (Barcelona, River Plate, AC Milan) played for about 12 clubs in total, a couple of Brazilian clubs and a Russian club that doesn’t exist anymore. Won two La Liga titles and a Champions League despite never having a good goal scoring record. More known for Icardi taking his wife.
Not bad trophy cabinet either- CL, 2 La Ligas, 2 Eredivisies, bunch of Super cups. Pity for him China wasn't that popular back then, could've gotten another retirement package.
Vinny Jones. A Sunday league player who had heart and anger as his main attributes.
Julien Faubert
Gravesen playing for Madrid was weird too
Ravel Morrison. Wonderkid gangster spouse abuser and witness intimidater at Man Utd to various loans and permanent deals at lesser English clubs where he'd have striking starts before falling out of favour for various reasons - poor trainer, arguments with coaches and even refusing to sign for Big Sam's dodgy agent. He then pops up at Lazio where he flops before reinventing himself in Mexico. And he's only 25 I think? Mad career so far!
Bradley Wright Phillips has a pretty crazy and similar (ish) story too. Next big thing, to toilet seat shoplifter (I think? with Glen Johnson?), Bounces around lower leagues, moves to America and rediscovers his love of football, afterwards becoming a consummate professional and one of the MLS all time top scorers.
Bradley Wright Phillips has a pretty crazy and similar (ish) story too. Next big thing, to toilet seat shoplifter (I think? with Glen Johnson?), Bounces around lower leagues, moves to America and rediscovers his love of football, afterwards becoming a consummate professional and one of the MLS all time top scorers.
Wes Brown. Won all those trophies then no money move to India.
Fellaini
Lord Nicklas Bendtner
The man, the meme, the legend. Played for both Arsenal and Juventus, a cult hero in his home country and a god amongst men.
The man, the meme, the legend. Played for both Arsenal and Juventus, a cult hero in his home country and a god amongst men.
I'm sure the Benfica fans on the forum won't enjoy remembering the time in their history when they had such illustrious names in their starting eleven as Scott Minto, Brian Deane, Michael Thomas, Dean Saunders, Mark Pembridge, Steve Harkness and Gary Charles...
https://www.worldsoccer.com/blogs/w...a-british-invasion-but-wished-it-hadnt-338040
https://www.worldsoccer.com/blogs/w...a-british-invasion-but-wished-it-hadnt-338040
Anderson.
Rubbish but has a fecking CL medal in his cabinet and scored a penalty in the final too. Many top players can only dream of this.
Rubbish but has a fecking CL medal in his cabinet and scored a penalty in the final too. Many top players can only dream of this.
Gary McAllister:
Started off as a makeweight in a deal between Motherwell and Leicester City. On to Leeds where he won the title. Off to Coventry to wind down his career in his early 30's. At the age of 36 he got signed by Liverpool where he won the plastic treble in his first season, scoring in the UEFA Cup final and scored a goal vs Coventry that helped send them down.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McAllister
Started off as a makeweight in a deal between Motherwell and Leicester City. On to Leeds where he won the title. Off to Coventry to wind down his career in his early 30's. At the age of 36 he got signed by Liverpool where he won the plastic treble in his first season, scoring in the UEFA Cup final and scored a goal vs Coventry that helped send them down.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_McAllister
Guy Whittingham. Served in the forces, went semi-pro in his twenties. Went pro with Portsmouth, where he scored a shitload of goals.
Miroslav Klose?
If Forlan is on the list then surely Klose has to be too. Top scorer in world cup history and won the world cup with Germany. But if you ask the average football fan what clubs he played for, they probably won't be able to answer. He seemed to only appear in tournaments and then seem to disappear once it was over.
If Forlan is on the list then surely Klose has to be too. Top scorer in world cup history and won the world cup with Germany. But if you ask the average football fan what clubs he played for, they probably won't be able to answer. He seemed to only appear in tournaments and then seem to disappear once it was over.
For Klose, i seem to remember there not being much interest in German players in general during that decade. Some bad\dull tournament performances in the early part of the decade(even though they still got to the WC final) and the recognition this was their worst era in a long time seemed to go a bit too far.
Sure Ballack got props, but i remember it taking AGES on most football discussion boards i checked at the time(not this site btw, don't know how things were here) before there was much international recognition of Schweinsteiger or Lahm and some fine players like Bernd Schneider went totally under the radar.
Klose was underrated outside Germany imo.
Sure Ballack got props, but i remember it taking AGES on most football discussion boards i checked at the time(not this site btw, don't know how things were here) before there was much international recognition of Schweinsteiger or Lahm and some fine players like Bernd Schneider went totally under the radar.
Klose was underrated outside Germany imo.
Dugarry.