Players you had forgotten existed

Pexbo

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Adriano - saw a compilation of his goals at Inter on Twitter the other day. Absolute beast of a player but then got fat and had mental health issues

Everything you would wish Lukaku would have developed into.
 

iammemphis

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Stewart Downing... can you believe he is STILL playing?! For Blackburn Rovers in the first team. Mental.

Also while i’m here, Dong Fangzhuo. The Chinese wonderkid still waiting to come good.
 

Gringo

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Talking about wonderkids. Freddy Adu, still only 30! Playing for Las Vegas Lights in the 2nd division of US football.
 

matherto

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Was watching a Valldolid-Barca game on YT the other day, remember Ricardo the keeper? He was awful in that but given it was 01/02 season Man. United signed him six months later. As baffling as Taibi coming in.

Pretty sure he only played about four games and conceded 3-4 penalties.

Fergie had some strange recommendations for keepers during that time, I could at least see the sense in someone like TIm Howard who had that athletic quality and went on to do well for Everton.
Always remember Ricardo used to wear white Predator Manias like Becks.
 

Nickelodeon

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Hugo Rodallega. Just came across an old video of him standing there while Wigan were conceding a spectacular goal from Bolton. Those were the days!
 

FootballHQ

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Hugo Rodallega. Just came across an old video of him standing there while Wigan were conceding a spectacular goal from Bolton. Those were the days!
From the same period Ali Al Habsi was Wigan keeper in those days.

Sub keeper for West Brom today!
 

AFC NimbleThumb

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Adriano - saw a compilation of his goals at Inter on Twitter the other day. Absolute beast of a player but then got fat and had mental health issues

Seemed to wrong foot keepers at free kicks & made them look like statues. The resignation in their body language is hilarious.
 

FootballHQ

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Talking about wonderkids. Freddy Adu, still only 30! Playing for Las Vegas Lights in the 2nd division of US football.
Didn't Adu actually get a move to Benfica at one stage when he was still young. That was his chance to live up to the hype but it all fizzled out.
 

Minkaro

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Saw that Joel Valencia was playing for Brentford yesterday. Used to sign him all the time on Football Manager 2008 (I think it was)
 

FootballHQ

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Saw that Joel Valencia was playing for Brentford yesterday. Used to sign him all the time on Football Manager 2008 (I think it was)
i thought it was that player aswell but Brentford guy was only 22.....think it's Enner Valencia you're thinking of who played for West Ham and Everton.
 

Sandikan

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Just in case 53 people haven't already said Pogba...

then Pogba.
 

Minkaro

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i thought it was that player aswell but Brentford guy was only 22.....think it's Enner Valencia you're thinking of who played for West Ham and Everton.
It was Joel Valencia. He's 25, but it must have been a later Football Manager game. It was definitely him anyway.
 

Eplel

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For me it's Maniche, Giuly, Keirrison, and Fernando Gago.

Also, Morgan Schneiderlin
 

Andersonson

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Javi Martinez, almost completely irrelevant today.

How is a player who played 21 games for Bayern last season and 11 so far irrelevant? ( league only )

Because you dont follow german top tier football doesnt make it irrelevant..
 

Lynty

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Didn't Adu actually get a move to Benfica at one stage when he was still young. That was his chance to live up to the hype but it all fizzled out.
Much Adu about nothing...



Don't think anyone's said the joke yet.
 

Varun1

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That DM from Sporting, around the time Moutinho was there.
 

forevrared

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Not a huge player, but Taye Taiwo looked brilliant in France but flopped at Milan and has apparently bounced around Scandinavia for a while and has been in Finland the past couple of years.
 

Bole Top

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Not that I forget him but I am surprised that Arda Turan is still in Barcelona's book.
nobody wants him after everything he has done. even Galatasaray rejected him. he was supposed to join Flamengo, but they gave up in the end.
 

Paul_Scholes18

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Joe Hart feels a bit lost. Gone down fast for him since Pep kicked him out.
Is he going to play as first choice in the PL again?