Review: The lost talents thread: Players who did not realize their potential

lol about Neustadter playing for Russia, well here's hoping he makes the WC squad.

thing about youth scoring, sometimes it's the team around a player that allows them to do better or score freely rather than their actual skills. It's why I find a lot of them excluding being injured ruining their careers need to show actual skill and the ones that do, usually are more likely to make it.

 

another in terms of NT Bernd Schuster, only played in the 1980 EC win. Retired from the NT at the age of 24 because of a disagreements of sorts.

 

memories

At some time I thought Benny Lauth was a legit talent.

This reminded me of a time I was young around 2003 after Bayern got knocked out of the CL, I was sending an email to Bayern thinking it will ever get to the FO and the list of transfer I suggested then was Hatem Trabelsi, Andreas Hinkel, Jaap stam,Hitzlsperger, Andres d allessandro, Kevin Kuranyi, Benjamin Lauth,Carlos Tevez, Pablo Aimar, Adrian Mutu, Makelele, Olivier dacourt.

I also said Bayern should promote and integrate Schweinsteiger and Trochowski

The bold were the Germans who fit this thread

 

For me it is Naki, Lasgogga, Yezil, Polanksi (before he switched) Benjamin Lauth, Andreas Hinkel & Jan Schaldurf . I thought Lars Ricken, Deisler, Goetze, Mario Basler, Macro Marin and Piotr Trochowski could be among the World's best so I add them to my list.

 

got dumped by Bochum and joined Austrian club FC Admira Wacker, lol.

attitude problems?

 

First thought of mine was Götze
Injuries and illness have ruined a lot for him sadly

 

already brought up but
5 PLAYERS WHO COULD HAVE BEEN WORLD CLASS HAD IT NOT BEEN FOR INJURIES

SEBASTIAN DEISLER
He was the chosen one. The player who was going to help Germany rise up from the disappointment of Euro 2000. He was nicknamed “Das Supertalent” and many tipped him to be a mainstay in the national team for the next decade.

His performances for Borussia Mönchengladbach during the 1998/99 saw most of Europe’s elite vying for his signature when it was confirmed the Bundesliga side had been relegated. Rumour has it that 26 clubs made an offer for the 19-year-old.

In the end he opted to join Hertha Berlin and play Champions League football. A cruciate ligament rupture plagued his first season in the German capital and then he missed the majority of the 2001/02 season after tearing a synovial membrane in his right knee in the October.

Deisler moved to Bayern Munich in the summer of 2002 but arrived in Bavaria injured having had another operation on his knee in the May. During his five full season with the German giants he made just 62 Bundesliga appearances due to various knee injuries as well as mental fatigue caused by the stress.

He eventually retired at the age of 27 having made just the 176 appearances in nine seasons as a professional.
http://www.footballwhispers.com/blo...ies?utm_medium=affiliates&utm_source=news-now

 

In the summer of 2002, I was visiting Dachau with my family, and saw Deisler there by himself. He was quietly reading all of the plaques while on crutches. No fans tried to talk to him or anything as that would have been extremely inappropriate given the setting.

It left a positive impression on me as to the type of person he was that he would be there while re-rehabilitating from an injury.

 

lol China, would rather seem him in Serbia than China. One of the biggest waste of a player in recent times.

 

Eh, he was never anything more than a dribbler. No ideas for the final third and his speed wasn't even elite. His dribbling & the hunt for the german-Messi overhyped him from the beginning, and at best he could've become the german-Lavezzi

 

lol, what a bunch of jerks.
https://www.givemesport.com/1339758...-former-chelsea-player-marko-marin-on-live-tv

 

Sahr Senesie was a young guy playing in the Bundesliga, then really fell off the radar. Misimovic was very talented but didn't do much after he left the Bundesliga (still got a lot of caps for Bosnia).