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Post by Donko on Mar 20, 2013 20:48:22 GMT
Seen a lot of the papers hinting about Michael Owen, that he didn't fulfill his potential.....got me thinking about people who were supposed to be "the next big thing"... Then saw Franny Jeffers scored twice last night for Accrington....
What ever happened to Liam Miller? Anthony Le Tallec? Mark Burchill? Freddy Adu?
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Post by quasimodo on Mar 20, 2013 21:05:15 GMT
i feel his pain  ;D |
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Post by pele on Mar 20, 2013 21:29:19 GMT
i feel his pain ;D Big quasi nearly got in the milk cup team ya know but was ten days overage ;D |
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Post by pele on Mar 20, 2013 21:30:34 GMT
Le tallec donks? That Cnut was always useless.
Liam miller is captain of Perth glory these days.
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Post by Dowie-RAFC on Mar 20, 2013 21:31:29 GMT
What about your man Torres ? Where did he go ?
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Post by maccers1 on Mar 20, 2013 21:48:34 GMT
Saw a tweet earlier that jeffers came on/off for beattie for england at one stage and then the same sub took place in that game last night. Just on the subject of Owen, here's one I wrote last night. Lol. footballspeak.com/post/2013/03/20/Michael-Owen.aspx |
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Post by Mitty on Mar 20, 2013 21:50:32 GMT
Freedy Adu was amazing in the old championship managers, you could buy him for about £250,000 and inside 6 months he was worth 10 mil.
From a Local viiew, think Lee Feeney is the one I would say was the biggest waste of talent. Could have went as far as he wanted but f**ked it all up deciding to party instead. Think he plays in some amateur league club now.
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Post by quasimodo on Mar 20, 2013 21:52:04 GMT
30th July.Had to be 1st August ;-).lol.Still be playing on my boyhood hero's Villa's pitch in May not to many chaps on here say that they got played on there teams turf my dream will be a reality;-)Lambert in audience.Never to late this could be a cinderella story ;-)
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Post by Jeff on Mar 20, 2013 22:02:59 GMT
Freedy Adu was amazing in the old championship managers, you could buy him for about £250,000 and inside 6 months he was worth 10 mil. From a Local viiew, think Lee Feeney is the one I would say was the biggest waste of talent. Could have went as far as he wanted but f**ked it all up deciding to party instead. Think he plays in some amateur league club now. Your right Mitty most naturally gifted player I seen in a Linfield shirt playin for moneyslane in mid ulster league last I seen with his cousin Callum another Waster. Stuarty king who was another gifted player now playing for shankill utd. |
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Post by Donko on Mar 20, 2013 22:03:57 GMT
Some guy wrote this in the Liverpool echo in 2003 about Le Tallec..
In most cases, paying £12m for a teenager would be considered rank stupidity, over-indulgence or, at the very least, a gamble which even Chris Kirkland's dad would shy away from.
When Manchester United do it, it's a stroke of transfer genius.
According to everyone who they make listen, United have just signed the best teenager in the world. By God are we hearing about it.
I'm not doubting Ronaldo's abilities. Clearly he's a talented kid who may be on the threshold of greatness. It just strikes me as rather odd that no-one has given the same attention to Liverpool's equally stunning new teenage recruit.
It seems Gerard Houllier's mistake with Anthony Le Tallec was to buy him early rather than delay until everyone in Europe wanted him. Obviously, Liverpool should have waited until Le Tallec's value was £12m.
Soon enough, the rest of the nation will wake up to the fact Le Tallec and Ronaldo played in the same world youth championships not so long ago and it was the Liverpool new boy who was voted the best player.
No doubt both Gerard and Mr Ferguson watched those same youth championships in Malaysia a few years back and noticed the same players.
Indeed, Liverpool had already signed Le Tallec by then and were strongly linked with Ronaldo themselves, but can't afford to splash out like United.
Time will tell who's got the better deal, but for value for money I know who I'm backing. It's a bit like Houllier and Ferguson have both dined at the same top class restaurant and had their pick of the best main courses on the menu.
Houllier has managed to get his dish at a quarter of the cost Ferguson has paid, and yet it's his rival who is getting all the praise.
Indeed, I'm getting an eerie sense of deja vu when it comes to theman dubbed TLT who's about to explode onto the Premier League. I remember how slow our London based number one writers were to realise who Steven Gerrard was a few years back.
The Kop Magazine I once wrote even launched a campaign to get him in the England squad, so little attention was he receiving. Then, when the rest of the country noticed a year later, they decided to make him their own property.
It was a similar story with Wayne Rooney at Everton. A friend of mine who works on a national newspaper tried to get a feature on Rooney into his paper in the summer of 2002. They were having none of it. How times changed three months later when "Rooney Opens Crisp Packet" stories were making the front page.
Le Tallec won't get the same attention as Rooney, Gerrard or Michael Owen because he ain't English. But the few glimpses I've had of him remind me so much of the first time I saw Gerrard.
So young, yet so full of class. So clearly ready to play at the highest level and begin the learning curve which will take him to the top of the game.
One of the most encouraging, but sadly overlooked parts of Sunday was Le Tallec's being named a sub. Pity he didn't get on, although Houllier said he was prepared to play the youngster if the circumstances of the game had been different.
The career paths of Le Tallec and Ronaldo are sure to cross regularly over the next decade. Should the French gem prove himself the better player, you never know, maybe the manager who signed him will get a bit of credit.
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Post by Bale on Mar 20, 2013 22:05:42 GMT
What about your man Torres ? Where did he go ?  |
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Post by pele on Mar 20, 2013 22:16:42 GMT
Freedy Adu was amazing in the old championship managers, you could buy him for about £250,000 and inside 6 months he was worth 10 mil. From a Local viiew, think Lee Feeney is the one I would say was the biggest waste of talent. Could have went as far as he wanted but f**ked it all up deciding to party instead. Think he plays in some amateur league club now. Your right Mitty most naturally gifted player I seen in a Linfield shirt playin for moneyslane in mid ulster league last I seen with his cousin Callum another Waster. Stuarty king who was another gifted player now playing for shankill utd. Disagree about kingo - average enough as a kid and to have had the Irish league he had IMO I'd say he over achieved. He was at Preston as a kid too. |
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Post by Donko on Mar 20, 2013 22:50:00 GMT
What happened to Feeney at Rangers, was it too big a move?
I remember John Curtis at Man United, tipped as a cert England Captain, think he ended up playing League 2
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Post by Mitty on Mar 20, 2013 23:00:06 GMT
What happened to Feeney at Rangers, was it too big a move? I remember John Curtis at Man United, tipped as a cert England Captain, think he ended up playing League 2 I'm sure it's alot more detailed than this, but think he impressed when he went over, got fastracked into the 1st team squad, played a few games, thought he was berty big balls and had made it, hit the party scene over there and then wasn't too long before Rangers got rid of him because of it. I can remember a guy telling me he played against him when he came back after he was released and was playing for Linfield Swifts and said Feeney was still blocked from the night before and could smell the drink off him from yards away. |
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Post by Jeff on Mar 20, 2013 23:03:10 GMT
Think that's about right Mitty. There was a wee group of them from over here at the time McKnight and Fitzgerald. McKnight was ruined by injury but the other two pissed their careers up the wall before they ever got going.
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Post by Jeff on Mar 20, 2013 23:10:17 GMT
Speaking of kinger he's Havin a go at irish league big time Charlie's tonight on twitter! so far Coates and Rory Patterson have got a touch lol
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Post by pele on Mar 20, 2013 23:12:29 GMT
Think that's about right Mitty. There was a wee group of them from over here at the time McKnight and Fitzgerald. McKnight was ruined by injury but the other two pissed their careers up the wall before they ever got going. I remember reading an article about the famous kids team St. Andrews from Belfast, the main man of the club said Paul McKnight was the best player to ever go through the club but got a terrible injury at rangers. |
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Post by Dowie-RAFC on Mar 21, 2013 6:45:12 GMT
St. Andrews produced some great players over the years, wee Davis was there as well, not sure weather is was them or Lisburn that Dixie Shiels played for as well to name a few. They never beat our Larne team tho :-)
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Post by Donko on Mar 21, 2013 7:21:51 GMT
Are St Andrews still running? Some amount of talent came through there
Philip Mulryne is another 1 that was supposed to be a world beater but went seriously off the rails
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Post by pele on Mar 21, 2013 7:29:17 GMT
Big Stephen Tully another. Ex cullybackey blues, had the world at his feet then hit then Guinness and partying scene.
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Post by Donko on Mar 21, 2013 7:36:20 GMT
Big Stephen Tully another. Ex cullybackey blues, had the world at his feet then hit then Guinness and partying scene. To be fair, Guinness is fecking tasty |
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Post by Dowie-RAFC on Mar 21, 2013 9:11:02 GMT
Are St Andrews still running? Some amount of talent came through there Philip Mulryne is another 1 that was supposed to be a world beater but went seriously off the rails No think they joined up with the blues and took their name. |
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Post by Dowie-RAFC on Mar 21, 2013 9:11:35 GMT
Big Stephen Tully another. Ex cullybackey blues, had the world at his feet then hit then Guinness and partying scene. Never heard of him ?  |
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Post by Donko on Mar 21, 2013 9:27:52 GMT
Best youth team about at the minute is St Oliver Plunkett, they have a quality set up,Ridgeway Rovers and Bertie Peacock are looking good too
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Post by Dowie-RAFC on Mar 21, 2013 9:40:38 GMT
Plunkett have been about some years as well.
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Post by dingle on Mar 21, 2013 9:52:35 GMT
Best youth team about at the minute is St Oliver Plunkett, they have a quality set up,Ridgeway Rovers and Bertie Peacock are looking good too 5 young kids from Carnlough playing up there at the minute at various age groups. Anytime I've watched any Plunkett youth side in past couple of years I've been nothing but impressed. |
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