Why do so many overhyped kids end up sucking when their older?
You got guys like Freddy adu, Mario gotzë, lord, Joe cole, David Bentley, and now it looks like Christian pulisic, were all hyped up when they were young and now they suck >Freddy adu The next Pelé, played for the US U-17 at 14, and now has no contract
>Mario gotzë The German Messi, now struggles to get a starting spot on Dortmund (in all fairness he has an illness)
>lord Once the most promising youngster in Europe, now plays for rosenborg
>Joe cole The English Messi, now plays for the Tampa bay rowdies
>David Bentley The next David Beckham, spent most of his career on loan to lower league teams
>Christian pulisic Right when a bunch of Americans started screaming he'd win the ballon d'or, he started sucking
>>Christian pulisic >Right when a bunch of Americans started screaming he'd win the ballon d'or, he started sucking what are you saying? Are you saying that you believe the Sup Forums memes that Pulisic is anything other than a talented young player? He's turning 19 next week and has only played in 60 club games, both league and cup
Logan Ward
high-effort, low-return bait thread you went in too strongly with "when their older"
Ayden Sanchez
he can sure sell a fucking vaccum
Austin Cooper
He was so much better last year. Last year he was certainly talented. But the American media overhyped him and he hasn't been doing as good. This year he hasn't done much other than some passes
Jaxon Edwards
He even managed to fuck that up
Christopher Smith
>next Beckham
Was this supposed to be a compliment?
Sebastian Diaz
Yep
Luis Wilson
Joe Cole had a decent career, and if he's playing in the MLS at 36 years old that's not a bad thing. Fatze scored the WC winning goal and signed for Buyern before his career was derailed by diabeetus or whatever. Bentley kind of burnt out but had some great moments in club football, like the hattrick against Man Utd. Nobody rated Adu, the jury's out on Pulisic as he's still so young and I have no idea who Lorde is - maybe the American sports media is as bad as ours. Keep an eye on what the Germans are saying about Pulisic, I reckon he'll turn out to be world class no homo
Joseph Miller
>Joe cole Had a great career. Played for England, won a bunch of trophies with Chelsea. He had bad luck with injuries.
Cameron Richardson
Joe cole is actually playing in the USL, which is so bad that leyton orient could probably beat them. Bentley did have some good moments but he never lived up to the "next David Beckham" hype. Gotzës career was probably derailed by that illness, so maybe I shouldn't have out him in. Adu was actually so overrated it was actually amazing. He was getting scouted by Real Madrid at 14, when he was debuting for the US U-17. Some experts were saying he'd score upwards of 500 goals. Then he sucked. Lord is nicklas bendtner and yes I find those memes funny. Pulisic was just an American doing decent in the bundesliga and the media overhyped him so much that people already think he's world class out here. He really hasn't been doing good the last few months
Nathan Lewis
>lord To be fair, he has a good goal return for Denmark
Jace Turner
>I have no idea who Lord is newfag pls go
Jace James
Just because you were on a team that won a trophy doesn't mean you were any good. Marlon santos won the copa del Rey with Barça but didn't play once. Alex Isak won the DFB-Pokal with Dortmund but didn't play once. In fact, lord won the serie a, DFB-pokal, the supercup, and the mesterfinalen, but barely played.
As for Joe cole, he played 182 times in 7 years for Chelsea and scored 28 times. As a winger. That doesn't sound very good to me
Sebastian Young
what are you fucking retarded? shit happens and half your cases are just guys getting old, why not complain about how Matt Leinart was a turd?
Lincoln Martin
True. He did get that hat trick against the US
Ryan Powell
You put the standard too high. Being in the Bayern and Chelsea 11s is major life achievement for anyone from thousands of footballer.
Hudson Kelly
>doesn't sound good So you didn't watch him play? I've followed Chels since Zola and Cole was a great player for them. He scored some incredibly important goals.
Jacob Wood
No these are cases of people actually not living up to their hype, nothing to do with age. Gotzë you could argue with me about because he got some digestive disorder or some snit like that, and pulisic because he's so young.
Anyway, I never really watched football. What happened with Matt leinart
Kayden Long
I have seen him play a few times but it was years ago so my memory is a little fuzzy. I just based it off his stats. Anyway my main point was people thought he was gonna be so much better than he was
Zachary Cook
Arsenal had a guy for 4 years who was only signed because the players thought it would be funny to pretend he's good and Wenger fell for it
Evan White
>I just based it off his stats Fucking ameridumbs
Sebastian Brooks
Who? Sanogo? that guy looks like talented 17 yo, who would've though he's stay the same years later.
Kevin Reyes
He played most of his Chels career under Mourinho and he was the number 2 winger behind Robben and Duff. He was meant to play as a very disciplined and hardworking style that sacrificed creativity for defence. He was never prolific goal scorer so to base his career off of stats is naive.
hype kills. expectations are set too high and players start pressing when all that hype gets to them remember when Lebron was hyped to be the next MJ? remember when Luck was the best QB prospect since Peyton Manning? remember when Barkley and Hackenberg were 1st round talents?
Lucas Long
Well, LeBron may have not been the best example because many people consider him to be better than MJ, but I definely see what you're saying
Carter Hernandez
LeBron obviously delivered, and Luck is injury-prone on a team with zero other good football players
I do think the "American sports system" is better for player development because you're never frozen out, you're always playing somewhere even if it's college football or the shitty AHL. It's just a handful of basketball guys (Darko, high school draft picks) who got frozen out
Liam Perry
speaking of promising young talents, what happened to the kid in pic related?
James Thomas
The only hype i ever remember him getting was about his age. Anyway he plays for a série b team now
Lucas Phillips
>facebook memes The way OP phrased it, it seemed like a player called Lord
Again, Cole is 36. Most footballers' careers are over at that stage. Everyone gets scouted by big clubs, the fact they weren't signed shows the hype was dismissed early on. Those 'experts' should be disregarded
William Barnes
>Ameristats
Landon Morris
>Joe cole Wut, he played at top level for a million years
Kayden Gomez
>Joe Cole >J. C. >Jesus Christ Coincidence?
Asher Butler
Immense pressure from their peers (parents, official agents, unofficial agents, staff, fans, etc.) I'm not even memeing, Monaco just bought a 13 years old, a kid who probably still wet the bed sometimes, 1 MILLION EURO. What do you think it happens in his head? afaik these "wonder"-kids have everything they can dream of, but psychological assistance to cope with all this pressure. In the end, in France, only 1 kid on 30 who entered a football formation center manages to become pro.
>he ultimately ended up sitting on the bench in MLS. Because he is old as fuck. Pirlo never was that much strong in the first place, and now as an old man he's like 10% of what he was, because you decline quickly after 35 And figure that leagues with less skill rely more on athleticism MLS is the anti-Pirlo league
Christopher Rodriguez
In Dortmund and in America they have
Nolan Morales
The media doesn't know that their doing it. They shilled for Hillary for years and she still manages to loose
Jose Wilson
Thanks for the video, but it's not available in America
Daniel Cooper
>Freddy Adu >played for the US U-17 at 14 >at 14 More like at 20.
Colton White
Joe Cole was a key player in 3 Premier League winning squads with Chelsea. One of the only tricky, technical English wingers in a generation stacked with central players. OP is a moron.
He had a rapid decline once he left Chelsea, but by that point he was 29 with a few long injuries.
Carter Hill
to be fair I don't remember Granero being hyped either
Michael Anderson
More like 25
Daniel Gonzalez
>I have no idea who Lorde is
Justin Hall
> only 1 kid on 30 who entered a football formation center manages to become pro. what a retarted statistic in what world could it be any different? you only have so many pro clubs
