Unfulfilled Potential Thread

I'll start with Balotelli

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The Emperor

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Curve ball, he never improved the rate he should of, he looked as though he'd be Ronaldo level, but his legs gave out at 24

Oops

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Me

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>he'd be Ronaldo level
The striker Ronaldo or winger Ronaldo?

Rooney peaked at 25 years of age, kek

Everyone does
>ftw >25

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Pic related was the new Maldini

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are you me user

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30 for defenders, 28 for midfielders and forwards

w-what did ronaldo mean by this?

He was Blacked

unironically this

Freddy adu
/thread

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There was no potential to begin with. He was a Football Manager meme wonderkid

And you're a fat greasy yankydoodle who knows nothing about football

He's not wrong though

Striker

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Isn't he soon to be a Manure player? Kek

>ctrl+f : "Kaka"
>0 result found

Yea Forums is newfag zoomer central confirmed

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Nani and Quaresma. If only they had the work ethic of Ronaldo

>Balon D'or winner
>CL winner
>WC winner
>Unfulfilled potential

>not reaching potential
>played for the two biggest teams in europe and won a WC
Yeah, no.

t. brainlet

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Why do they say unreached potential? Theres far more people that "didnt reach their potential" than those that did.

I always think of Nani as a shitty carbon copy of TSU

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>tfw 29

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Zoomers don't remember that Nani was the blockbuster buy and not Ronaldo

Cassano

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>Nani was the blockbuster buy and not Ronaldo
It was "blockbuster" because Manurefags think it was like having two TSU

The real "marquee" signing that summer was Anderson

As an Inter fan, I remember seeing his debut scoring two against us when he played for Bari.

kek

Pic related was the Serie-A top scorer at 35. Say no to rope until then, user

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Based

potential is a meme. if you can't do it consistently, you're not that good.

Nani was incredibly skilled but too fucking thick to be an elite player

Could have been so much more.

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One of my favourite goals of all time
>that acceleration

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What's going on with "The Duck" these days? Playing in China? Kek

What went wrong with him lads?

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He never had one successful season in a senior league. A meme

>too classy to play footy

Never heard of this guy until his death

Back in Brazil. Saw this in his wiki page though.
>On 4 March 2017, Pato made his debut for Quanjian in a 2–0 loss to Guangzhou R&F, where he missed several chances for the newly promoted side.[33] A week later he missed an 88th-minute penalty kick in a 1–1 draw with Shanghai Greenland Shenhua, denying Quanjian its first ever Chinese Super League win.[34]

Cocky brainlet from all accounts.

Everyone on this board

>mexican league

big WTF

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It pains me to think about this chap.

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based perica ognjenovic

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>"I don't care about scoring goals"
>Madrid to spend galactico money to replace TSU void
>one month in Madrid fans start whistling him every game for not doing enough

I hope that fat assed Muslim fuck goes to Madrid. He'll get exposed so good damn fast once people realize they spent €100M+ for a guy who isn't as influential as fat Isco. Considering how fucking often they whistled Bale, even when he was in form, the Madridistas and Spanish press are going to destroy Hazard

Hulk?

JAVIER SAVIOLA

Mijatovic did well, user

Spain and Italy has the worst fans. Bitch so much about their own players its pathetic.

no one can replace ronaldo with the same goal ratio retard

hazard will still be madrid's best player, comparing him to isco is a proof you didnt watch the wc

>SaviLOLa

He was on track to be the one true GOAT

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Where does he even play?

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The real redpill is that Adu was always shit

In the league of the CL finalist and he just won Player of the Month

I'll take fat Ronnie over Messi or TSU

Madrid fans are still going to expect 25+ goals from him. He's said how after he scores, he doesn't look to get more goals. That's the difference between hazshit and elite players like Ronaldo and Messi. Fat Isco carried Madrid in the second half of the 16/17 season when Ronaldo and Bale decided to not show up for months on end. He's got much more of a killer instinct than Hazard does in big games and Madrid already has a pace nigger in Vinicius who's younger, faster, and has far more upside than an aging Hazard. What Madrid needs more than anything is a striker. Hence why they're pushing hard for Jovic.

I only knew him because he had good potential in FIFA when at Zulte Waregem. Incidentally, I came across a One Note notebook I made a few years ago of young players with good potential and he was among them which made me smirk. Here's a few of them, lot of unfulfilled potentials desu

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If you want to find talented players in a video game, at least use Football Manager, desu.

Matt was GOAT material

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Obviously FM is way more fleshed out but I liked FIFA because you could play with the players when they became good

For me it was Francis Jeffers

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Latest news is that Ajax wanted to buy him from Madrid. But Madrid doesn't want to sell, but they were willing to loan him out to Ajax for 2 years.

Top kek.
I really hope he comes to us tough.

>JAVIER SAVIOLA
I remember when Bacelona signed him and Simao and both were playing well. What happened?

He had the potential to be as good as Xavi and Iniesta. It's a shame he was wasted at Barcelona

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I remember him doing great in Arselel until some bloke brexit tackled his leg in two. Then he got transferred to Shaktar and everyone forgot about him.

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watch out world!

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Why did he have to go to the Browns?

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Marco Marin
Hatem Ben Arfa
Milos Krasic

what did google mean by this?

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Bleached

>coming
Barca realized they aren't good replacements for Kluivert and Rivaldo

>Marco Marin
journalists unironically called him >le German Missi and were convinced he would become as big. He didn't even become as much of a meme. What happened to him anyways?
Gladbach -> Bremen -> Chelsea? -> ???

pulishit has 1 more season before he makes the list behind adu

he ended up being a total nigger tho

shut the fuck up, it's not even comparable. Pulisic at worse will end up like Dempsey

jesus christ, there's maybe 1 decent player in that whole list

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Kaka. A 2 month peak ain’t shit

Never should have left. Imagine if he played his whole career at arsenal. He’d be a legend for life. Now arsenal fans hate him, Barca fans don’t care and neither do Chelsea fans. What a waste.

Michael Johnson

Fraser, Rabiot, and maaaaybe Redmond can still pan out. Ok not Redmond

right there with you, user.. you are not alone

Nani etched out a fine career at Man U when they were still a super power.

He use to always be my first buy in FM and Fifa career mode.