Players Who Never Fulfilled Their Potential

[Bjornebye]

The obvious one is Gazza but fuck me this lad if he'd stayed off the ale could have been a world beater

 

 

 

 

 

[aRdja]

We’ve had a few; Coutinho, Sturridge, Ox, Agger off the top of my head. Naby also arguably but hard to really know what his potential is, maybe this is really his level. 

[stringvest]

Rob Jones, Heggem

[Chip Butty]

Pele

[VladimirIlyich]

2 hours ago, Chip Butty said:

Pele

He was a rock solid player in the box.

[YorkshireRed]

If you park the appearances for club and country, the goal scoring records, and the multitude of medals won, then I think Wayne Rooney. 
 

World class player who could have been one of the greatest players ever.

[Trumo]

Frank Worthington. He did alright for himself but he could have been even better. Could say the same about Stan Collymore.

[Guest]

Matt Le Lissier, Alan Shearer

[Preston Red]

Peter Beardsley

[Wezza]

Wezza

[chrisbonnie]

11 minutes ago, Shooter in the Motor said:

Matt Le Lissier, Alan Shearer

Do you include shearer because he didn't play for utd and win trophies? 

 

Because you can't fault his goalscoring record in the slightest. It's astonishing 

 

Le tissier is an interesting one though. Bags of talent, had 4 really outstanding seasons at a shit club and some good seasons to. But no denying he didn't give his full "body" to the game. Didn't eat right or train like a modern pro that's for sure. 

[Jose Jones]

6 minutes ago, chrisbonnie said:

Do you include shearer because he didn't play for utd and win trophies? 

 

Because you can't fault his goalscoring record in the slightest. It's astonishing 

 

Le tissier is an interesting one though. Bags of talent, had 4 really outstanding seasons at a shit club and some good seasons to. But no denying he didn't give his full "body" to the game. Didn't eat right or train like a modern pro that's for sure. 

Shearer's injury took all his pace away for his latter years though and he turned into basically an arse and elbows type forward.  Still knew where the net was, but took a lot of his fear factor.  

 

Although - he did obviously fulfil his potential for a few seasons.  Not sure he could have got any better.  You could put Torres for us in the same pot.  Beautiful for a few seasons, then gone.

[TD_LFC]

Gianluigi Lentini

[Scott_M]

Stan Collymore. Had it all, what a waste.

[Captain Howdy]

4 hours ago, stringvest said:

Rob Jones, Heggem

Yes, I’d add Aurelio to them. All robbed by injuries.

[joe_fishfish]

Without the injuries Sturridge could have still been playing and scoring loads for us this season. 13/14 he was incredible, had so much to his game.

 

Also I would have loved to see a peak Steven Gerrard in a side with other world class players like our current one, he probably could have hit even higher heights.

[Trojan1892]

Taarabt, Ravel Morrison

[Tony Moanero]

Gianluigi Lentini

 

[Tony Moanero]

Ariel Ortega

 

[Tony Moanero]

Alun Evans

 

[TD_LFC]

Alvaro Recoba.

 

Also there's a book about a kid called Adrian Docherty who played for Utd and Derry that's supposedly good.

[Aventus]

16 minutes ago, joe_fishfish said:

Also I would have loved to see a peak Steven Gerrard in a side with other world class players like our current one, he probably could have hit even higher heights.

Centre mid is probably currently our only weak point, fuck me imagine what we'd do if we had Stevie right now. 

[Tony Moanero]

Paul Walsh

 

[Trojan1892]

Bojan

 

 

[No2]

Divock.