Players that didn't live up to their hype?

**superfrank** · 01/04/2009, 4:32 PM

AFAIK, Trezeguet is one of Juve's top all-time scorers.

He's done pretty well to get there considering he's been playing with Del Piero the whole time.

AFAIK, he scored 34 goals for France in 71 games. Nearly one in two, not bad at all.

**gustavo** · 01/04/2009, 4:36 PM

Originally Posted by Steve Bruce

Veron, never reached the heights that we where expecting for United/Chelsea
Chris Eagles, supposidly the next Beckham
Joe Cole, although a great player, he was expecting to be unbelievable, at one time ranked as the best youngster in England (as in school boy)

Veron was majestic in Italy for a number of years so I wouldnt say he didn't live up to the hype just because of his failings in England
Time is on Eagles side too

**gustavo** · 01/04/2009, 4:38 PM

Originally Posted by eamo1

David Trezequet.Was the answer to France's search for an out and out goal scorer apparently but just didnt do it.Didnt do it at Juve either.Yes,he won major honours has individually been dissapointing.

He's had over a goal every 2 game for Juventus which isn't bad for someone who you say has disappointed indivudually

**Mr Maroon** · 01/04/2009, 5:43 PM

Originally Posted by Wangball

Also weren't Salif Diao & Momo Sissoko both supposed to be the new Patrick Viera??

Sissoko is getting there.

Originally Posted by dfx-

Baros
Adriano
Recoba
Ibrahimovic..
Oleguer

I don't have great expectation for Bojan either.

I definitely agree about Recoba!! Not about Bojan though, I still think he'll be a top player.

Originally Posted by eamo1

David Trezequet.Was the answer to France's search for an out and out goal scorer apparently but just didnt do it.Didnt do it at Juve either.Yes,he won major honours has individually been dissapointing.

Oh dear oh dear oh dear. How on earth can you have come out with that? He's a Juventus legend, all time top foreign goalscorer (ahead of Platini, Charles, Sivori, etc). How can you say he "didn't do it at Juve" and has been individually disappointing?

Originally Posted by superfrank

AFAIK, Trezeguet is one of Juve's top all-time scorers.

He's done pretty well to get there considering he's been playing with Del Piero the whole time.

AFAIK, he scored 34 goals for France in 71 games. Nearly one in two, not bad at all.

Correct. Also, for Juve 222 league appearances and 131 league goals. A goal every 1.6 matches and against "defensive" Italian teams aswell!

52 goals in 93 for Monaco, 34 in 71 for France and 5 goals in 5 caps for France u21 too (just to show it wasn't a fluke

)

Individually disappointing?
*Serie A Footballer of the Year: 2002
*Serie A Foreign Footballer of the Year: 2002
*Serie A Top Goalscorer: 2001-2002 (runner up last year too).

**Closed Account 2** · 01/04/2009, 11:46 PM

Still be remembered for missing important penalties in shoot outs though!

I think he is overrated too, I know he has scored lots of goals for Juventus, but to be frank he had some of the best midfielders in the world setting him up. Everytime I've seen him on a really big stage he's looked like a bunny in the headlights of a lorry. Additionally some of those goals came when Juventus had a hidden hand helping them in the league. I wouldnt have him anywhere near the top ten of foreign strikers in Serie A in the 15 years (e.g. Batistuta, Shevchenko, Ronaldo, Zamorano, Claudio Lopez, Pandev, Crespo, Alen Boksic, Abel Balbo (pushing the time frame out a bit)... etc) I'd even say Edmundo in his one season at Fiorentina did better than Trezeguet.

**Kildare Lad** · 06/04/2009, 10:18 AM

Dont know if its been said, but Keiron Dyer? Thought he was going to be the big thing in English football and now seems to be an average player at West Ham is it? Unlucky with injuries though.

**DeLorean** · 06/04/2009, 11:17 AM

Originally Posted by hunt4the

I'd go for Owen Hargreaves or the next zidane Bruno Cheyrou,

Hargreaves in a fine player imo and don't think there was that much hype about him really. He was just in an unusual situation of being a English player playing with a big European club. Fair enough United paid big money for him but the intensity with which Bayern tried to hang on to him would suggest he did a more than decent job for them. Was also a major factor in United's success last season I thought and think they could do with him at the minute.

**irishultra** · 06/04/2009, 12:23 PM

lol ye hargreaves situation was really weird. i had to laugh at the british press and the fans deriding him, when he was up against portugal i was so supporting england and then he started dominating the match. what a player.

i just loved the way he proved the idiots wrong.

**Wangball** · 06/04/2009, 2:34 PM

Originally Posted by Mr Maroon

Correct. Also, for Juve 222 league appearances and 131 league goals. A goal every 1.6 matches and against "defensive" Italian teams aswell!

52 goals in 93 for Monaco, 34 in 71 for France and 5 goals in 5 caps for France u21 too (just to show it wasn't a fluke

)

Individually disappointing?
*Serie A Footballer of the Year: 2002
*Serie A Foreign Footballer of the Year: 2002
*Serie A Top Goalscorer: 2001-2002 (runner up last year too).

Outscored by Gary Breen in the 2002 World Cup though......................