Underrated Players Who Became Overrated

Specifically players who were underrated for a period of time that once people realised and made a fuss over them being underrated, they became overrated.

The example I was thinking of last night was Rodrygo. He's a great player sure and been underappreciated in the shadow of Vinicius Jr, but since someone said he's the most talented at Madrid, I feel like people have started to overrate him personally

I think there are loads of examples of these players over the years though, give me yours!

 

Someone is defo gonna say Daizen Maeda aren't they...

 

Michael Carrick is my ultimate version of this. Mostly just after he retired at Utd and they realised just what he brought them, and he was class and undervalued. After retirement, he’s talked about like a Pirlo, a generational talent.

It really annoyed me that, I spent his career pointing out how good he was, he retired and then I’ve had to go woah pump the breaks, not that * good


The other example and a similar player was Dembele at Spurs, and that’s another player that was genuinely great. Alex Ferguson came out saying he regretted not signing him, praised him a lot and after that * have run wild with it. I’ve seen Spurs fans saying if they had the offer of Modric staying with Dembele going or what happened in reality, Dembele is the obvious answer. Great player but insanity

 

Two good shouts!