Oranges038
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Back in the day, I though Ben Thornley was going to be top class. Then when we saw that Sky Sports video of Forlan I thought, "wow, look at this guy". Then when he played it was more like "wtf is this guy?". Think Forlan was the one who really made me realise that you always have to temper your expectations of young players and give them time to grow.
Obviously you also have some extreme examples like Sancho and Greenwood who've probably dicked up their whole careers by being absolute idiots off the pitch.
In general I think every few years you have aa player who is tipped to be the next big generational talent and then all of a sudden the potential just seems to disappear and you end up with what could have been. But, in real terms they've done more than 99.9% of footballers will ever do.
Off the top of my head, here's a few who were touted as being world class stars but they just dropped off into oblivion.
Denilson
Jeremy Menez
Gui Assulin
Drenthe
Rodwell
Saviola
Bojan
Pato
Bojinov
Mutu
Mastour
Balotelli
Giovinco
Obviously you also have some extreme examples like Sancho and Greenwood who've probably dicked up their whole careers by being absolute idiots off the pitch.
In general I think every few years you have aa player who is tipped to be the next big generational talent and then all of a sudden the potential just seems to disappear and you end up with what could have been. But, in real terms they've done more than 99.9% of footballers will ever do.
Off the top of my head, here's a few who were touted as being world class stars but they just dropped off into oblivion.
Denilson
Jeremy Menez
Gui Assulin
Drenthe
Rodwell
Saviola
Bojan
Pato
Bojinov
Mutu
Mastour
Balotelli
Giovinco
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