Overrated player from the past

[Gbspurs]

Ryan's thread got me thinking about those times when you tell your mates to "watch out for this kid" and rave all about your latest acquisition like they were the illegitimate love child of Pele and Eusebio, and they turn out to be, well, more than a little tripe!

What players from our past do you remember waxing lyrical about and it never quite happened.

The clearest one I can remember is Mido.

"He was a teenage scoring sensation", I would say. "Wanted by Man Utd but turned them down" was another. "He's a wonderkid on Champ Man don't you know". The superlatives kept on coming.

Then I spent the next few years desperately defending him when the reality set in and I didn't want to lose face!

I vaguely remember going on about Anthony Gardener as the "next sol Campbell" too. The shame!!

Any others?

 

[ryantegan]

Goran Bunjevcevic

the balkan Beckenbauer

more like the balkan bluffer

 

[pablo73]

Dos Santos is an obvious one, he was going to be the next Ronaldinho as I recall. I also remember Ramon Vega being billed as 'our Tony Adams' (I assume that meant in playing style rather than that he was likely to get wasted and wrap his car round the nearest tree).

 

[OPModric]

Jenas

 

[montylynch]

Jonathan Blondel........

 

[Hot-Spur]

I actually quite liked Mido....he had some ok moments for us....but then he discovered pies

 

[Spurs_Bear]

Noe Pamarot was gash...

 

[talkshowhost86]

Noe Pamarot was gash...

I was at his debut game away at West Brom. He seemed to spend most of the game trying to eat their winger.

I once heard someone at WHL describe Johnny Jackson as having 'the best left foot in England'. If that was true the rest of his body must have been absolute balls.

 

[Gbspurs]

Jonathan Blondel........

I remember being quite excited by Jonathan Blondel. Trust us to discover the Belgian revolution a decade too early!!

I just remembered another one, Tomas Pekhart. Scored for fun for the reserves and I told all my mates about him. And Emil Halfredsson. Come to think of it we have had a few like this!!!

 

[Gbspurs]

John Bostock.... (so far...)

TBF I don't think spurs fans are guilty of overrating Bostock since we have never seem enough of him to rate. I blame that one purely on the palace fans and the media!

 

[JUSTINSIGNAL]

Steffan Iverson

 

[Sauniere]

Helder Postiga

 

[tototoner]

Denílson who joined Real Betis in 1988 for a world record fee of £ 21.5 M

 

[Super Tottenham]

Rebrov before we bought him.

 

[cracker man]

Frannie Jeffers (well for about 2 years). That is some fall from grace from Gooners to total obscurity in a short space of time.

 

[KingKay]

Freddy Adu. Formerly known as the Second Coming.

 

[Ginolas_Hair]

Helda Postiga and Milenko Acimovic (new Glenn Hoddle)

 

[Ginolas_Hair]

Further afield - Adriano (had 1 fantastic season with Inter where he looked unstoppable from what I remember) and I'm scratching my head for other "new Maradona or Pele's"

 

[Sp3akerboxxx]

I was well on the Anthony Gardner hype train. Would tell everyone at school that he was the quickest cb in the league

 

[sherbornespurs]

Eric Cantona.

The red half of the People's Republic of Mancunia, curiously, seem to forget it was only when Cantona had left Old Trafford and Teddy Sheringham had arrived did they win the treble. It was Teddy who opened the scoring in the FA cup final, then single-handedly turned dire loss into wonderful victory in the European cup final when he came on as a sub, scoring the 1st before laying on the winner for Solskjaer.

They should be singing "Oh, Teddy, Teddy" - not that 'orrible Cantona dirge.