Premiership failures

[Pickman's model]

People who have had a short and disastrous premiership career. I'll start you off with massimo taibi of Manchester United

 

[BristolEcho]

Thomas Brolin Leeds United

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

Kim Kallstrom, Arsenal. Got injured, Arsenal signed him on loan anyway. Did nothing, played very little, left.

Great on Football Manager earlier in his career though, a must sign as an AM C.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Ali Dia - Wikipedia

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[BristolEcho]

Kim Kallstrom, Arsenal. Got injured, Arsenal signed him on loan anyway. Did nothing, played very little, left.

Great on Football Manager earlier in his career though, a must sign as an AM C.

Yeah he was decent in real life too for Lyon and Rennes. Ridiculously good on FM.

 

[stavros]

There have been a few greats who've come to England for a late career payday and flopped a bit. Andrei Shevchenko, Juan Veron, etc.

 

[Steel Icarus]

There have been a few greats who've come to England for a late career payday and flopped a bit. Andrei Shevchenko, Juan Veron, etc.

Andriy Voronin

 

[RedRedRose]

Davy Klaassen moved from the Netherlands, set Everton back 23.6 million and only managed 7 appearances.

 

[Steel Icarus]

The legendary Bebe

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Marco Boogers who played a handful of games for West Ham - although the stuff about the caravan was apparently just the Sun being cunts as per.

 

[surreybrowncap]

There have been a few greats who've come to England for a late career payday and flopped a bit. Andrei Shevchenko, Juan Veron, etc.

Veron was only 26 when he joined United....

 

[stavros]

Veron was only 26 when he joined United....

So he was; I thought he was older.

Schweinsteiger didn't really show up for them, did he?

 

[Steel Icarus]

So he was; I thought he was older.

Schweinsteiger didn't really show up for them, did he?

Yeah, Veron was decent for a bit tbh. Bastian S not so much

 

[The39thStep]

People who have had a short and disastrous premiership career. I'll start you off with massimo taibi of Manchester United

scouted by Fergusons's brother

 

[Steel Icarus]

Alberto Aquilani. £20m for fewer than 20 league appearances. Terrible.

 

[Sasaferrato]

As it isn't stipulated that this is players only, David Moyes takes a bit of beating.

 

[Sweet FA]

Marco Boogers who played a handful of games for West Ham - although the stuff about the caravan was apparently just the Sun being cunts as per.

Tried to murder Gary Neville in his opening game & don't think he played again.

 

[Bingoman]

Ali Dia - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Not sure why Southampton didn't do a scouting job on him first, Defo a the weirdest transfer I think I have seen

 

[stavros]

Quite a few teenage prodigies haven't fulfilled their supposed potential. For every Giggs, Owen or Rooney there's a Joe Cole, Walcott or Pennant.

 

[AverageJoe]

All three of those played for England

 

[Pickman's model]

All three of those played for England

but failed to win anything

 

[stavros]

All three of those played for England

They did, and certainly Cole and Walcott won a fair bit of silverware too. Cole especially was over-hyped as a youth, I seem to remember him being compared to Zidane, just like Ferdinand was compared to Sammer or Baresi. I'm not sure Mourinho was willing to give him what he needed at Chelsea, and you could argue he stayed there too long.

Walcott was a victim of Sven's daft decision in 2006 to take him to the WC.

 

[Pickman's model]

They did, and certainly Cole and Walcott won a fair bit of silverware too. Cole especially was over-hyped as a youth, I seem to remember him being compared to Zidane, just like Ferdinand was compared to Sammer or Baresi. I'm not sure Mourinho was willing to give him what he needed at Chelsea, and you could argue he stayed there too long.

Walcott was a victim of Sven's daft decision in 2006 to take him to the WC.

They won nothing with England, no matter how they did with their clubs

 

[The39thStep]

They did, and certainly Cole and Walcott won a fair bit of silverware too. Cole especially was over-hyped as a youth, I seem to remember him being compared to Zidane, just like Ferdinand was compared to Sammer or Baresi. I'm not sure Mourinho was willing to give him what he needed at Chelsea, and you could argue he stayed there too long.

Walcott was a victim of Sven's daft decision in 2006 to take him to the WC.

Cole had fantastic talent but very poor decision making and vision as a player .

 

[BristolEcho]

Someone did a video for you.

 

[RedRedRose]

Brett Angell was a very prolific lower league goal scorer. It's a shame he didn't transition to the PL.

 

[stavros]

Cole had fantastic talent but very poor decision making and vision as a player .

I think he'd have been better off going abroad much earlier in his career, to teach him that kind of thing.
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[BristolEcho]

Brett Angell was a very prolific lower league goal scorer. It's a shame he didn't transition to the PL.

Name from the past that one.

 

[tommers]

Joe Cole - 56 England caps, 3 pl titles, 2 fa cups 1 league cup. Fucking loser.

Savio Nsereko, Mido, Roberto, Diego Tristan, Seb Haller, Joey Beauchamp, Jon Spector, Calleri, Wellington Paulista, Enner Valencia, Modibo Maiga etc etc etc. And that's about 1% of West Ham’s .

 

[The39thStep]

I think he'd have been better off going abroad much earlier in his career, to teach him that kind of thing.
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Possibly but he had peak Mourinho who as I recall gave the impression that Cole wasn’t always a good listener ?