Players you knew were shite but were heralded as the next big thing

[SlugTrail]

David Bentley. Only person who didn't know it was him.

[Chairman Meow]

I think the thing that held David Bentley back most was the fact that he was a tosser of epic proportions, yet seemingly celebrated as a character.

 

The fact he's fucking proud of the fact he took the piss out of a man who has won league titles in Italy as a player and manager, won La Liga and the Champions League sums him up quite well.

 

Lazy, ill disciplined and somehow a multi millionaire. Football, making knobheads multi millionaires for doing fuck all. 

[jamespp]

Emile Heskey, he was heralded at Leicester and 10m was a big transfer in 2000, never totally convinced even in the 00/01 season and thought what did happen after was inevitable, no finesse, poor mans Lukaku which is a bad thing to say

[magicrat]

All of David O'Leary's young boybees except for Harry Kewell, every single one of them.

Harte was a decent left back for many years, Still playing I think

Hasselbaink was unplayable at times

[Anubis]

Anyone mentioned that Czech grebo Poborsky yet?

[Remmie]

Anyone remember Sonny Pike?

 

I seem to recall him being on loads of current affairs shows back in the mid 90s and hailed as a child prodigy.

As soon as I saw the thread title I thought of him. Not that I thought he'd be shit but just I remember the hype.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Pike

 

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2006/feb/15/theknowledge.sport

[stig-inge]

Future Aston Villa captain, Jack Wilshire. What an overrated prick.

[VladimirIlyich]

Emile Heskey, he was heralded at Leicester and 10m was a big transfer in 2000, never totally convinced even in the 00/01 season and thought what did happen after was inevitable, no finesse, poor mans Lukaku which is a bad thing to say

FA Cup Winner,a couple of League Cups,a UEFA Cup and a European Super Cup are not a bad return for a shit player.

[Dr Nowt]

Steve Froggatt.

[Section_31]

Matthew Etherington, Richard Wright, Steve Simonson, Matt Jansen, Ledley King, John O'Shea, Darren Fletcher.

[Babb'sBurstNad]

As soon as I saw the thread title I thought of him. Not that I thought he'd be shit but just I remember the hype.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Pike

 

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2006/feb/15/theknowledge.sport

 

Fair play to him, it sounds like he could have continued but made the decision to quit himself.

 

You do wonder how many of the really young starlets will ever make the grade though, and what they'll end up doing once pushy relatives who act as their agents have gone through their initial earnings.

[Boss]

Wes Brown always thought he was absolute shite even from his early hyped Man U days.

[Section_31]

Wes Brown always thought he was absolute shite even from his early hyped Man U days.

I thought he looked decent on his debut, but was wary of Paddy Crerand's claim that he could go on to become 'the best defender who ever lived.' (Seriously.)

[Dr Nowt]

I remember a lad at school dribbling on about an amazing crop of youngsters United had coming through all at once, he insisted they'd be first-team players for years and I scoffed at him.

 

I hate life.

[jamespp]

FA Cup Winner,a couple of League Cups,a UEFA Cup and a European Super Cup are not a bad return for a shit player.

yeah but you could say that about loads of players, Nicky Butt won loads, I don't want to to say Emile is shit because he'll then probably score a Patrick on Saturday but I don't think he was as good as the hype when he wad at Leicester

[magicrat]

Crying prick Nani. Poor mans Ladyboy

Anderson as well . Useless sack of shit

[eeyore]

Balotelli

[The Golden Eel]

Bentley was pretty good for a couple of seasons at Blackburn

[matt1983]

Bentley ended up toss, but I agree he was good at Blackburn and I would have preferred him to Pennant at the time.

 

The correct answer is Tom Cleverley. Nothing player, and when he plays a high pass or a cross he kicks the ball strangely. "Strange gait" as a bitter old cunt once said.

[Dave D]

Massively overated: Michael Carrick

 

Never understood the fuss: Bryan Robson

 

Heralded as next big thing but was/is shite: Mark Draper. Steve Stone. Berahino.Jason Mcateer. Mirandinha. Schillachi. David James.

[Section_31]

Carrick's a good shout. In fact there was a team of West Ham youngsters that was overrated. Joe fucking Cole for example, touted as some kind of heir to Paul Gascoigne and was basically a poor man's David Thompson. Carrick is shite, there was that Adam Newton lad too, fuck knows what happened to him.

[Tony Moanero]

Frank Lampard was underrated by many while at West Ham. Rio Ferdinand was excellent for United. De Foe was(/is?) a decent Premier League striker.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Gerardo Bruna. - Real Madrid got pissy because we nicked him.  Just think, if they'd have kept him, they might have become successful.

 

Bojan Krkic - Was going to set Camp Nou on fire; instead he's slumming it in Stoke.

 

Ravel Morrison deserves a mention, too.

[jp carroll]

Chris Kirkland

[The Golden Eel]

Gerardo Bruna. - Real Madrid got pissy because we nicked him.  Just think, if they'd have kept him, they might have become successful.

 

Currently playing for Whitehawk in the Conference South