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

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from class of Toni Kroos and Trapp. He was a key player in 2007 U17 WC 3rd place. Has been in 1BL for like a decade but that's over now as he moved to 2BL club. Could never make himself relevant in 1BL either.

 

Hard to see Götze here as he actually scored to goal in a WC final, has a few BuLi titles and played in a CL final. I would say he reached his potential, just wasn't able to maintain it. But winning a World Cup = potential reached!!!

 

Götze has never played a UCL Final.

 

Correct, hamstring injury.

 

question would Dortmund have won CL had he been fit? Thoughts.

 

Bayern activate the release clause a few days before the CL final, unsettling the whole Dortmund squad

The team was still great. But Bayern did unsettle them. With that.

Dortmund could have Gündogan takes Götze's position instead of Großkreutz. And played Sahin in DM role.

I do also draw a comparison to Lars Ricken, the 20-year-old at the time who fired Dortmund to the Champions League title in 1997 against Juve

There's no doubt Ricken was a gifted player, but he was no Messi or Neymar.
The bar was set too high.

Ricken was considered then as a new "wonderboy", but he couldn't match the extremely high expectations in the following years.

 

Who is the broadcaster of Dutch league in US? I want to see PSV this season...

 

unlike Goretzka Meyer left Schalke in bad terms with his attitude and $$$ obsession that weren't based on any performances.

players who blacklist themselves usually find it harder to return to said league. Unless he goes to bottom 1BL club, no one else is likely to play him.

 

A bid out of topic but sometime I really doubt the IQ and related rationale of football club. Oh, Sancho is an emerging British young winger who succeed at BVB, so all British young winger should succeed - like how Bayern crazy about Hudson Odoi.

The context between Sorltoh and Meyer can't be more far apart. Sorloth is relatively young, and his position is striker. Meyer is not so young with no fix position, a washed up midfielder. Just because Sorloth became relatively succeed at Trabzonspor doesn't mean Meyer will succeed there as well, because... logic...?

Not that I care about Crystal Palace, Trabzonspor or even Meyer, just you know, sometime I really wonder the intelligence or even sanity of football club management

 

Reinhold Yabo. Captain of the victorious U -17 German team at the U-17 EC 2009.

 

Ex-BVB talent Patrick Fritsch in an interview: "I didn't expect my career to end" Patrick Fritsch was one of the most promising talents at BVB, but had to end his career at 19 in 2018.

Patrick Fritsch from Borussia Dortmund almost became the youngest German player in the Europa League - just three years later, the central defender had to end his hopeful career at the age of only 19. BVB then caught the 22-year-old. In an interview with SPOX and Goal, Fritsch speaks for the first time in detail about his injury-related odyssey and the physically and psychologically difficult battle against the end of his career.
https://www.spox.com/de/sport/fussb...upt-nicht-erwartet-borussia-dortmund-itw.html

 

At Liverpool FC Samed Yesil still dreamed of the Premier League, today he plays with Homberg Regionalliga - and is still happy.

Samed Yesil doesn't think back. “I live in the here and now and am satisfied,” he says. The 26-year-old could show off his past a bit. Which regional league footballer can claim to have played for the famous Liverpool?

The present means fourth league for the German-Turkish born in Düsseldorf, Samed Yesil plays in Duisburg for VfB Homberg. He is currently in good shape and is on a non-relegation place in the Regionalliga West. And that is also thanks to the former Liverpool striker. Samed Yesil moved from Bayer Leverkusen to Liverpool in 2012 Samed Yesil has seen a lot in his career. In 2011 he played for Germany at the U17 World Cup in Mexico and received the Silver Shoe there.

The world of football was open to him, so to speak. A year later, in the summer of 2012, the young man from Bayer Leverkusen's youth department signed a four-year contract with Liverpool. Stations in three other countries followed. Eight years after signing in Liverpool, however, Samed Yesil was delighted that VfB Homberg reached out to him in October 2020 and signed him. The collaboration started off well.

Yesil scored two goals in eight appearances. "Samed is highly talented, very hard-working and always very humble," says Homberg's trainer Sunay Acar. “We are very happy that he is playing for us. He is currently perhaps at 70 percent of his capacity. There is still a lack of fitness. We are working to ensure that he comes to his full potential with us. That would be worth gold for both him and VfB Homberg.

"We have completely different problems than empty stadiums" Samed Yesil with only two competitive games for the Reds Samed Yesil starts again here, Liverpool was a long time ago for him. Twice, against West Bromwich Albion and Swansea City in the League Cup, he was allowed to play for the Reds. He spent a total of three and a half years at Anfield Road, but it was a time with bad luck with injuries. The fact that things didn't go as planned and that he was mainly used in the second team was also due to two cruciate ligament tears in quick succession. “Liverpool was a great time, a dream. But that was once upon a time, ”he says in an interview with this newspaper today.

“When I went to Liverpool at the age of 18, I was a fan - since the Champions League final in Istanbul in 2005 against AC Milan, when Liverpool turned the 3-0 down and won on penalties. On the Playstation I preferred to play with Coutinho or Luis Suarez. Suddenly I was sitting next to these world stars in the cabin. Madness! ”Samed Yesil says that in the first few days he was“ petrified ”. “I couldn't believe it all, I didn't say a word. I just watched her: when she was changing, training, getting dressed. It was all so unreal. " The nervousness subsided over time, but it should not be enough for a great career.

“The injuries set me back extremely,” says Samed Yesil and openly admits: “There were moments when I didn't feel like it anymore. I also let myself go a little. After the cruciate ligament tears I had to struggle with being overweight again and again. " Samed Yesil promises: "I will be heard from" Yesil was loaned to Lucerne FC for a year and a half, and the Liverpool chapter ended in summer 2016. He moved to Panionios in Athens - "a great year in sporting terms". But: “Unfortunately I didn't get a salary for a year. To this day, my advisor Reza Fazeli and the lawyers negotiate with Panionios. " So it was for Yesil, who now lives in Krefeld, back to Germany - to the third division club KFC Uerdingen.

A station to forget, with only four short assignments. After an interlude in Turkey with Ankara Demir, he finally ended up with VfB Homberg in October 2020. And now he is finally happy again.

“I'm back with my family and friends. It's a lot of fun at VfB. I want to get back in shape here, thank the club with goals and attack again. I'm only 26 years old and I can play for many years to come. I know what I'm capable of. ”His ambition is a promise:“ We'll be heard from. ”
https://www.waz.de/sport/fussball/s...iverpool-neustart-in-homberg-id231048574.html

 

Durm making comeback season!!!

Durm consolidates his position - and pulls past Touré
Erik Durm had to go a long way to finally be able to recommend himself for the starting XI at Eintracht Frankfurt. The former national player moved from England (Huddersfield Town) to the Eagle Bearers on a free transfer in the summer of 2019 and after a long dry spell at the Bundesliga club even had thoughts of saying goodbye. But the latest development should rule out a change of club, at least for the time being.

"It is impressive how he dealt with the situation. He never criticized it and always tried to train well. He really took a tough path and now he is being rewarded for it," said head coach Adi Hütter positive turn. "I also see that it is getting better from game to game. We have gained an intelligent player who can play in different positions," added the coach, who now sees Durm clearly ahead of rival Almamy Touré, who is initially still regularly on the train came. "Almamy Touré also performed very well when we won the games. Unfortunately, he couldn't maintain the level. Erik Durm maintains his level, that's the difference," said Hütter, who was clear about the ranking on the right-wing defense .