Footballers who didn't live up to the hype

[Lotus Elan +2]

You know the ones........lauded as a youngster but ultimately didn't fulfill their potential.

I can think of Franny Jeffers and more recently Connor Wickham.

There must be more.............

[juice]

Dele Ali (as much as it pains me). Never seen a footballer have his form fall off a cliff like Dele

[Radec]

Jesse Lingard, although he's still quite a few years from retirement so the jury's still out...

[Hammer67]

Ravel Morrison.

[Ascayman]

juice said:

Dele Ali (as much as it pains me). Never seen a footballer have his form fall off a cliff like Dele

He got to the top though. Just couldn’t maintain it so lived up to the early hype.

Jon Bostock.
Freddie edu.

[Feirny]

Freddy Adu.

[Thankyou4calling]

Ascayman said:

He got to the top though. Just couldn’t maintain it so lived up to the early hype.

Jon Bostock.
Freddie edu.

I saw Jon Bostock play for Brentford. He was absolutely outstanding in what was a moderate Bees side.

No idea why he didn’t make it to the top.

[jcremonini]

David Bentley

[popegregory]

juice said:

Dele Ali (as much as it pains me). Never seen a footballer have his form fall off a cliff like Dele

Can someone explain this to me? What happened, did he just forget or something?

[Cie]

Pogba

[p4cks]

Hammer67 said:

Ravel Morrison.

This. Fergie once said that he was the best prospect he'd ever seen

[General Price]

Cherno Samba.

[phil-sti]

jcremonini said:

David Bentley

Superb at Blackburn, completely went off a cliff at Spurs

[Voldemort]

Joe Cole. Hailed as the new messiah. Wasn't shabby but never got to where he was expected to.

[Lotus Elan +2]

Must be a thing about Spurs
The whole squad arn't living up to anything at the mo

[General Price]

Danny Cadamarteri at Everton was another one,scored in a win over Liverpool on his debut and that was about it.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Wayne Rooney. Not a dissimilar age to Messi & Ronaldo, and at 18, was ahead of them. Seeing him at the 2004 Euros he looked like he would become one of the world's greats, like Pele or Maradona.

Obviously he had a very good career but now it's over, would you put him in the top 500 all time great footballers. Probably not.

[Challo]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Wayne Rooney. Not a dissimilar age to Messi & Ronaldo, and at 18, was ahead of them. Seeing him at the 2004 Euros he looked like he would become one of the world's greats, like Pele or Maradona.

Obviously he had a very good career but now it's over, would you put him in the top 500 all time great footballers. Probably not.

For someone that was a driving force for Everton, United, and in the latter years for DC United, and won multiple titles and cups you think he didn’t live up to the hype? United’s leading goal scorer, and joint England goal scorer.

[juice]

Challo said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Wayne Rooney. Not a dissimilar age to Messi & Ronaldo, and at 18, was ahead of them. Seeing him at the 2004 Euros he looked like he would become one of the world's greats, like Pele or Maradona.

Obviously he had a very good career but now it's over, would you put him in the top 500 all time great footballers. Probably not.

For someone that was a driving force for Everton, United, and in the latter years for DC United, and won multiple titles and cups you think he didn’t live up to the hype? United’s leading goal scorer, and joint England goal scorer.

Yeah that's an odd choice given he's 2nd on the all-time scorers list

[Kuwahara]

juice said:

Dele Ali (as much as it pains me). Never seen a footballer have his form fall off a cliff like Dele

Jose did warn him….