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

'94 and 95 just seem like really poor years for GKs.

Jannik Huth and Pollersbeck. Although the actual gem Vlachodimos went on to represent Greece

Marius Gersbeck, Wellenreuther, Marvin Schwäbe, Oliver Schnitzler, Daniel Mesenhöler

While in 96, there is only Nübel who is decent. Marius Funk and Raif Husic fell off a long time ago

In 97, there's only Florian Müller

For 98, maybe Finn Dahmen or Markus Schubert someday, we don't know yet. Also not sure if Eike Bansen is someone to be rated

 

Yeah, 92 had Ter Stegen and Leno, also fwiw Schwolow.

Maybe 90 was decent as well with Trapp and Baumann, but that's heading towards old man territory and only Trapp got into playing in actual games for the NT

93 starts and onwards starts to get dicier. There's Timo Horn who's good but perhaps a bit unfulfilled, and then Karius

 

Sinan Kurt signs with FC Nitra in the Slovakian league.

He's the 3rd German on the club, after Ekin Celebi and Yanni Regasel. Former Dortmund youth player Ramzi Ferjani is about to sign as well

https://www.transfermarkt.de/ex-bay...ash-ferjani-vor-unterschrift/view/news/378724

 

Robin Yalcin, who was part of the German youth NTs between U15-20

Also a member of the '94 class of other lost talents including Yesil, Quaschner, Aydin, Aycicek, and Tammo Harder

...on a separate note, just saw that Quaschner has officially retired from football. Had struggles but ultimately injuries was another part what kept derailing his career

 

Lol forget about a return to Europe, Pierre Michel Lasogga just signed with a different club in the Qatari league

https://sportbild.bild.de/fussball/...debuet-noch-am-selben-tag-75358664.sport.html

 

Lmao Max Meyer can't even get himself into garbage bench minutes at Koeln. Crazy how bad his career has become

 

Time really does fly looking at the class of '95. I remember being in my mid-20's (lol) visiting the Weserstadion about 6 years ago and getting a Davie Selke jersey.

He sucks now of course in hindsight. Other players in that year who have disappointed for various reasons: all of the GKs, Anthony Syhre, Marian Sarr, Pascal Itter, Max Meyer, Hany Mukhtar, Nico Brandenburger, Marc Stendera, Jeremy Dudziak...etc

 

Julian Weigl, another player from the 95s that went to the dumps

 

Tobias Warschewski going to the Canadian Premier League

https://www.transfermarkt.us/fc-edm...r-german-youth-international/view/news/380204

 

Yea, Warschewski wasn't the biggest of talents, but he did have a brief period a few years ago where he was among the U19 youth NT scene. Also an early riser with Muenster but never really put in the work or initiative

Clubless for a while and played in the RL. Nothing really happens for players in the CPL who even do well over there. Probably just wants to play there for the adventure or experience in a different country/continent

 

Leitner didn't end up going anywhere and will just sit out and collect a small but still reasonable portion of his weekly wages for remainder of the season. He still has another year left on his contract at Norwich

https://www.bt.com/sport/news/2021/...er-moritz-leitner-vows-to-remain-professional

Moritz Leitner has vowed to remain professional despite being frozen out at Norwich.

The 28-year-old has not played for the Sky Bet Championship leaders for a year and was told he could leave after the club were relegated from the Premier League last July.

Leitner’s last appearance came in an FA Cup win at Preston 12 months ago but, as he looks for a move, the former Borussia Dortmund midfielder insisted he would stay calm.

In quotes released to the PA news agency, he said: “My agent is in contact with various associations, there are exciting projects and discussions but we should only talk about it in concrete terms when there are facts to report. This is also what I understand by professionalism.

“Of course I’m dying to be back on the pitch, but as someone who has been involved in professional football for a long time, I’ve learned to deal with situations like this.

“The day will soon come when I can help a team again. I’m really looking forward to it and will do everything for it.”

Leitner won the Sky Bet Championship with Norwich in 2019 but, along with Josip Drmic and Tom Trybull, was told he had no future at the club and cast out of the first-team squad in the summer.

Trybull was moved on to Blackburn on loan but Rovers are paying just £2,000 of his £22,000-a-week wages.

But Leitner, who initially joined the Canaries from Augsburg on loan in 2018, remains philosophical about the situation and insisted he would make the move to Carrow Road again.

“Every club has the right to make individual plans with regard to the deployment of its players and to make appropriate decisions,” said ex-Lazio man, who is due back in Norwich soon after training in Munich following an injury.

“I had three great years in Norwich, the promotion to the Premier League, to which I contributed, experience in the Premier League, there were a few real highlights.

“I have had a lot of great experiences in England from which I will benefit greatly in the future. The move to the Canaries at that time was a very good decision for me – I would make it again.

“I still have a valid contract with Norwich until the summer of next year, so we will find a good solution together. Of course, I want to win games with a team again and be successful on the pitch. This is my passion.”

 

Well that's awkward. Gisdol was skeptical of bringing in Max Meyer at Köln because there's no real need for another meh midfielder. But Meyer was mainly signed anyways because of his connection to Horst Heldt who he knew before from Schalke

https://www.transfermarkt.de/-bdquo...r-ndash-heldt-macht-hoffnung/view/news/380440

 

Quite fitting that Seydel plays on the same team together with Felix Platte at Darmstadt

 

Lewis Holtby leaves the Blackburn Rovers

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co....lings-lewis-holtby-explains-rovers-departure/

 

Didn't know much about Bigalke's career but thought that Yabo was decent enough to be a solid 2BL player. Guess either health/fitness or personal reasons is why he's moving on