Good players who lost it quite early

Probably 2004 after he left Juventus. (not including his Barca loan spell)

 

Denison ronaldo ronaldinio kaka not many go on to there 30s mainly down to fitness? All superb think in just been greedy and wanted to see more of them.

 

Am I the only one who thought Robbie Fowler dropped off * of a quick? It's like he peaked in his early 20s then slowly went down from there.



Kerlon, was tipped to be the next big thing, earned a move to Inter Milan and just vanished.

 

Mark burchill

 

Robinho,Ronaldo,Ronaldinho

 

Injuries have destroyed Kerlon, just Unlucky.

 

What about that American lad Freddy Adu.... he was linked to United like 5 or 6 years ago, I think he went to Portugal for a while but ended up back in the States soon enough. There was high hopes for him.

I think Michael Owen, Joe Cole, Alan Smith come under this category.

 

Aye that's a really good one, absolutely amazing for Porto for like 3 seasons, went to Inter played * all.... went to Chelsea on loan, played * all and his career has been ruined ever since.


Had some amount of skill too. Moving to Serie A was incredibly stupid, natural wingers are not really appreciated or used there.

 

Egdar Davids is still a world class player, he's currently player manager at Barnet...

 

Does James Beattie count?

 

No.

 

Lentini when he went to ACmilan,think it was a world record at the time.Involved in a car accident and although he came back was never the same player.I also liked David hirst at Wednesday and dean Ashton but injuries ended both careers early.At Celtic I thought wee Brian McLaughlin was going to be a world beater when he broke through under Tommy burns but think he ended up at queens park or something.

 

Dida?

 

Michael Johnson

 

Norman whiteside. What a talent he could have been

 

I suppose Chic Charnley could come into this bracket, potential to have been brilliant with top club (his choice would probably have been Celtic):icon_mrgreen:

 

Andriy Shevchenko?

Didn't do it at Chelsea and in his return to Milan.

 

Stephen McManus.

 

Downing

 

John Kennedy but for that horrific injury inflicted by Ganea, and despite a comeback it in effect ended a promising career in its tracks. He would have really been a great player for us and won alot of caps for Scotland. He's still only 29.