Players you had forgotten existed

LDUred

Full Member
Joined
Oct 7, 2019
Messages
1,785
Ever Banega.

Subject of about 1,000 goal.com articles and tweets without probably ever having heard of us.
 
Last edited:

Redcy

Full Member
Joined
Nov 9, 2014
Messages
2,614
Michael Bridges - an extraordinary season for Leeds never to be seen again until he appeared for carlisle and then faded into injuries again
 

Redcy

Full Member
Joined
Nov 9, 2014
Messages
2,614
Michael Ricketts
Marcus Stewart

Both scored for fun in their first seasons then disappeared completely
 

Winrar

Full Member
Joined
Feb 5, 2012
Messages
12,776
Location
Maryland
Jeffren Suarez: Was rewatching 2010 El Clasico where Barca beat Real 5-0 and he was the last scorer. Now plays in the Croatian League.
 

horsechoker

The Caf's Roy Keane.
Joined
Apr 16, 2015
Messages
51,375
Location
The stable
Santiago Munez.

Whatever happened to him? He was good for Newcastle then he moved to Real and after that he just sort of disappeared.
 

Rish Sawhney

New Member
Newbie
Joined
Mar 15, 2015
Messages
619
Location
State College
Roque(?) Santa Cruz. He seemed to be all the rage. Broke our longest clean sheet run if I remember correctly. Then went to City and disappeared.
 

Redcy

Full Member
Joined
Nov 9, 2014
Messages
2,614
Roque(?) Santa Cruz. He seemed to be all the rage. Broke our longest clean sheet run if I remember correctly. Then went to City and disappeared.
Had one amazing season at Blackburn when he arrived scoring 19 in 37. Then never produced again after that, even the season before city bought he only scored 4 in 20. Wasnt an injury thing either he just had one purple patch season.
 

njred

HALA MADRID!
Joined
Nov 3, 2001
Messages
7,172
Supports
Liverpool
Youri Djorkaeff. Just watched 98 cup final. Forgot about him.
 

RedMist99

Full Member
Joined
Mar 21, 2008
Messages
5,162
Location
South Manchester
Michael Bridges - an extraordinary season for Leeds never to be seen again until he appeared for carlisle and then faded into injuries again
Just seen that Michael Bridges finished his career at some small club in Australia. Feel like I've seen their badge before, or something quite like it!

 

Number32

New Member
Newbie
Joined
Jan 11, 2015
Messages
920
Most of World Cup 2002 heroes:
Hakan Sukur - Uber driver now
Ilhan Manzis
Gerald Asamoah
Bernd Schneider
Ahn Jung Hwan
Cha Du Ri
Edmilson
Juninho Paulista
El Hadji Diouf
 

Wibble

In Gadus Speramus
Staff
Joined
Jun 15, 2000
Messages
88,602
Location
Centreback
Just seen that Michael Bridges finished his career at some small club in Australia. Feel like I've seen their badge before, or something quite like it!

Lambton is a suburb of Newcastle, a city to the north of Sydney. Bridges played a couple of stints for the Newcastle Jets in the A League prior to that.

Jaffa is a slang tern for a Kiwi (New Zealander) - Just Another fecking Aucklander - so I'd guess the Lambton Jaffa's is a club that was founded by Kiwis living in Newcastle. I think the motto is meant to say "Head hunters", referencing the original Maori practice of head hunting (and preserving by smoking them).
 

SungSam7

Full Member
Joined
Nov 29, 2016
Messages
527
Location
Waterford
I know he wasn't a big name or anything, only reason he became known across Europe was the fact he just collapsed while playing for Ajax in the summer of 2017. That would be Abdelhak Nouri, he just came out of a coma after 2 and half years since he collapsed tonight! Completely had forgotten about him.
 

SirMonteyne

New Member
Newbie
Joined
Jul 26, 2014
Messages
285
Location
@CAF
some lad from Brazil, went to AC Milan. At the time, people were comparing him to Ronaldo, Messi. Can't even remember his name, completely forgot.
 

SAFMUTD

New Member
Joined
Mar 14, 2018
Messages
11,787
Alexis Sanchez, I was in the thread about 11 ManUtd flops and completely forgot about him, I even remebered Scheneiderlin and Falcao but completely forgot about him.
 

El Zoido

Full Member
Joined
Jun 7, 2013
Messages
12,259
Location
UK
Alexis Sanchez, I was in the thread about 11 ManUtd flops and completely forgot about him, I even remebered Scheneiderlin and Falcao but completely forgot about him.
Same. I saw an article the other day about United’s best ever players in each shirt number, and I didn’t know who was wearing our #7 currently. I thought it was vacant but googled it just to check. It’s Sanchez.
 

GenZRed

Full Member
Joined
Aug 10, 2019
Messages
634
Michu, who had that one great season at Swansea City then seemingly vanished off the face of the Earth.
 

redmeister

Full Member
Joined
May 12, 2011
Messages
1,465
Michael Bridges - an extraordinary season for Leeds never to be seen again until he appeared for carlisle and then faded into injuries again

Him and Dean Ashton could make a great striking partnership of pretty ordinary English strikers, that injury saved them from being regarded as the same level as someone like James Beattie.
 

Deery

Dreary
Joined
May 21, 2019
Messages
18,590
Micheal Johnson that played for Man City what ever happened him? Was touted as going to be one of the best in the league
 

horsechoker

The Caf's Roy Keane.
Joined
Apr 16, 2015
Messages
51,375
Location
The stable
Micheal Johnson that played for Man City what ever happened him? Was touted as going to be one of the best in the league
Arrogance in my opinion, after becoming the best basketball player of all time he though he'd try his hand at baseball, it was unsuccessful and thus he returned to basketball. The fact he thought he could also become a footballer just shows how deluded he was.
 

Deery

Dreary
Joined
May 21, 2019
Messages
18,590
Arrogance in my opinion, after becoming the best basketball player of all time he though he'd try his hand at baseball, it was unsuccessful and thus he returned to basketball. The fact he thought he could also become a footballer just shows how deluded he was.
That’s Jordan, although Johnson was quite the accomplished 200m runner..