Whether it be in terms of whether they didn’t play as well as you expected them to be, or if they were injured/unfit all the time during their career at your club or perhaps got on bad terms quickly into their career at your club (e.g. Di Maria at Man Utd).

As a Liverpool fan, I can think of names like Aquilani, Robbie Keane, Morientes, Andy Carroll, Kewell, Litmanen, Nuri Sahin etc.

But the one that has to take the cake is Naby Keita. I was very excited when it was announced he would be joining us. He was like the 2nd best midfielder in the Bundesliga that season for Leipzig in the data and for a couple of seasons had shown a lot of great technical ability. He joins us and the rest is history. It’s not to say he didn’t have good moments with us when he had a run of games in the first team. But that was presicely the issue, getting a run of games. It was a constant cycle of spending over half his time injured and when returning, not always having his best games due to slowly returning to fitness and when he did start showing his sparkle he’d go off injured again for a while. I am not just gutted for us but gutted for him too in how it could’ve and should’ve turned out.

  • SAOL_Goodman@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Lichtsteiner to Arsenal. What excitement, I hear you ask? Yeah, imagine how fucking bad he had to be to still disappoint

  • SukhdevR34@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    When McGeady came to Everton I was 11, and because he had 5 star skills and great dribbling and pace on Fifa I thought he’d be brilliant.

    • dickiefrisbee@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I’ve been to exactly one Everton game and it just so happened to be for McGeady’s only goal for the club (but it was a beauty).

      • SukhdevR34@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Yes, there were so many players between him and the goal (was it 7?) but he whipped it in the goal beautifully. I have to say though Martinez was an awful manager and a very fake person. McGeady said Martinez told him many times ‘you’re doing well, keep doing what you’re doing’ then didn’t play him. Also benched Mirallas and Deulofeu for Kone A and Cleverley. Can’t stand him.

  • anark_xxx@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’d seen Lazio a few times on the Sunday Serie A tv show and I thought Veron was going to be the second coming of Christ himself. He was so fucking good.

    But no.

  • craftsta@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Albert Luque. Nuts stats on FM. Didnt really translate to on the pitch play. He skied his first ever chance. he wasnt BAD per se. Just nothing like his insane reputation.

    • charlierc@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I remember Palermo in 2006 where he was the only fit striker so played by default and scored the only goal for Newcastle to beat the team that, at the time, lead Serie A. What a bizarre day that was

  • Midgers89@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Wait what?! You mean you mention all thise hopefuls and never mentioned Sean Dundee?!?

  • unmotivatedsuperhero@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Ndombele. I was so pumped after watching his highlight videos, so silky and able to get through a press so well. What a disappointment.

    • Hilde571@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      That was a man who used an absolute stunning tournament performance to catapult his career. It just turns out he was no where near that good normally.