Players who were huge during their peak, but quickly fell off

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Quickly fell off my ass. He was class for Real.

Kaka didn't fell off, he was fucked by injuries and lost his athleticism there-after, also he was useless in WC 2010 not sure why you wrote that.

Shevchenko would be a better example.
Godtier player until he was 30 but when he transferred to Chelsea it's like some curse hit him or something.
He transferred to Dynamo Kiev and still didn't play well anymore.
But he still owned Ibrahimovic in Euro 2012. Based Sheva.

What you talking about Borislav? His peak had a normal length

RVN almost single handedly won both the EPL and La Liga 4 years apart with teams well inferior to their main rivals with individual brilliance. The ultimate finisher for nearly a decade

>Kaka didn't fell off, he was fucked by injuries and lost his athleticism there-after,
That's falling off.

Really, he played amazing until his early 30s.
He got a heavy injury at Real in like 2008 and never quite managed to recover from that.

If not for that he would have continued beasting for 5 more years at least.

Wat. Ruud was scoring regular high numbers in the CL for like 7 years.

Kaka was world class for many many years. Easy to forget he immediately displaced Rui effin Costa right upon his arrival at Milan and finished the decade as Confederations cup player of the tournament with a relatively mediocre Brazil team.

No it isn't. Injuries effecting your career is not "falling off"
Might as well say Van Basten fell off while you're at it.

To be fair Rui Costa was past his prime when he came to Milan and Kaka failed in 2006 WC but your point still stands.

Adriano

It was Rivaldo he outshone at Milan.

Kaka didn't "fail" in 2005 any more than all the others in the "Fab Four" did- the team was too attack minded, had no defense or strategy and still only barely lost by a goal to a French team with many players at their absolute peak or close to

He was one of the players of the tournament in both CL 2005 and Confed 2005 and rookie of the year or something in Serie A in 2004 when he drove them to the title. Rui Costa may have been past his prime but he was still good enough to be the starting number ten for the European Champions who won the title after signing him

Mo Salah

Nah Rivaldo was already benched by the time Kaka arrived.

Nah, Rivaldo didn't even play much in 2003/04.
Anshit barely ever gave him a chance.

But as I pointed out, Rui Costa was past his prime even when he joined Milan in 2001 and by 2003/04-ish he was starting to decline.
If Rui Costa was in his prime while at Milan Kaka would have warmed that bench or maybe even never have had the chance to explode as he did.

Ronaldo in a terrible condition where he was fat as fuck still outperformed him.
I love Kaka but his performance in 2006 WC left a lot to be desired.
I knew that overrated clown Ronaldinho would fail but I expected more from Kaka.

Rivaldo was unfairly treated by Shitlotti.
He was always good whenever he played but he didn't get much of a chance.
In his second season he barely played one match before we shipped him off to Brazil in the Winter Market because Shitlotti didn't understand the concept of rotation.

Still remember his performance vs Real Madrid with Rui Costa in 2002 CL. Goddamn he was good.

Also
>only barely lost by a goal to a French team with many players at their absolute peak or close to
Bullshit. Utter bullshit.

That French team was shit and Zidane put them on the final.
I will never forget what Zidane did to Brazil that night.
youtube.com/watch?v=yNVO7ti_gfQ

>Man u wins 3 titles in a row before he arrived. Won 1 in the five seasons he's there. Then 3 in a row after he leaves.
Textbook poacher who gets overrated but doesn't have enough all around play like robbie fowler.

Kaka was a casualty of the static #10 playmaker being marked out of the game by the advent of the makelele role. Players who were slower and less athletic couldn't play that role anymore except in the Italian league where the game was slower for longer.

Kaka was a modern 10.
Also Zidane shat on that notion in 2006 WC when he shat all over that tournament playing as a 10 carrying a shit French team to the final so you're wrong, that's just popular myth and not much else.

look up the team he played with, zero quality

More like Abramovich bought Chelsea and Mourinho was dabbing on Ferguson at the time also that once in a lifetime Arsenal team under Wenger.

The French team was not shit at all. Thats just a common post facto myth. Remember they qualified from the group stages with barely a contribution from Zidane. But more importantly Henry (arguably best player in the world at the time), Makelele, Ribery,Gallas, Malouda were all close to or playing at their peak (which was world class in each case) while Vieira, Thuram, Sagnol, even Barthez were giving, mature experienced performances

Zidane may have dominated midfield that night but there were few clear cut chances created on either side and France only scored with a set piece goal. Brazil could just as easily have snatched the match. Ronaldo was playing well but so was Kaka (who won the opening match for Brazil).till that match in which he did indeed flop. Brazil had been favorites going into the match for a reason

Don't get me wrong, Zidane was inspirational that night but that doesn't mean others in his team were not. Easy to forget this was the one international tournament Henry finally did show up for, he had a blinder against Brazil as well. It's not like Zidane was Maradona'86, he had as many world class players on his team as Brazil.

Also Ronaldo's performance was not as big as surprise as you might think- not only did he have a middling to good season with Madrid (and was their best goalscorer) but he was also expected to raise his game for Brazil like he used to and still considered one of the elite players of the world at the time of the WC, unlike Zidane who wasn't expected to do much in the tournament after a meh final season with Real

>Textbook poacher who gets overrated but doesn't have enough all around play like robbie fowler.

That's one way of looking at it, although RVN at his peak was well more than "just a poacher"

Another way would be like how you could declare Ronaldo's first 4-5 seasons at Madrid a failure because he won one league title and two total in 9 seasons. Or another way of looking at it would be those titles were some of the most impressive ever considering the quality of the opposition and his own time

Likewise with RVN especially delivering the title at Madrid after 3 years immediately after signing, against reigning European and UEFA Cup champions on the last day of the season

>Players who were slower and less athletic couldn't play that role anymore except in the Italian league where the game was slower for longer.

Ok. So how does that apply to Kaka, one of the fastest players ever at his peak?

Ronaldinho

>ynr

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Oh fuck off. He was awesome at Real

Andrei Arshavin

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just shut up streetshitter

>Malouda
>world class
m8

>Henry (arguably best player in the world at the time)

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milan baros
btw anyone remembers bojan krkic?

>baroda
This!
Remember him being elite for like a year or two at Liverpool and the Czech NT than literally disappeared

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You're one sad and pathetic autist for seething in every thread. Kill yourself

youtube.com/watch?v=vAkvluwKBjo
*click*
*bzzzzzzt*
*slurp*
ahhhhh, now THAT was a player....

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he never peaked

>baroda
What the fuck is my phone typing

This guy. What the fuck happened?

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He was good up until he had knee surgery. Then the last 6 months at Liverpool and his whole time at Chelsea he sucked hard. After that, he was too old to be as good as he was in his prime.

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Kaka

Are you talking about James and Oezil?

>americans
twitter.com/ClassicFootbaIl/status/1110488060788178949

>United only won the title in 1/5 of the seasons he played for them
>they won it in 3/5 of the seasons after signing Rooney

Oh no no no no

Goals worth less than midfield contribution theory strikes again.

Jesus the amount of shite youre talking is unreal

when chelsea bought sheva wasn't he injured?

never seemed to properly recover from that

thats funny to hear ancelotti having such a say in player transfers because i was under the impression galliani was in charge of that

Ding Ding

el hadji diouf

very well said,zlatan

Real Madrid

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the main man

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This guy

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I second Owen