What players have been legit underrated and then became a huge meme overnight?

What players have been legit underrated and then became a huge meme overnight?

>huge meme
Peter Crouch was the hugest

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Makelele was the went from being slightly underrated to the most overrated player in the history of sport.

>makes a tackle and passes 5 yards to an actual footballer
>lauded as a genius

for me it's scholes

The most overrated underrated player

Still world class though

>literally no one outside of italy cares about him
>famous penalty against Hart
> THE MAESTRO, ABSOLUTE WORLD CLASS

I hate english based media

>>famous penalty against Hart
he was very well rated before that
I still can't understand why Milan were willing to let him go to Juventus, really didn't make sense at the time

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>really didn't make sense at the time
he was getting old and wanted a long contract the Milan didn't want to give him, also he was injured a lot and his form was mediocre in his last Milan years. Allegri preferred Van Bommel too so he was mainly a bench player.

>literally no one outside of italy cares about him
He was always rated here.

He wasn't really rated in Mexico, before the WC final, all the fuzz was about Italy's defense and Totti

yet Real's midfield collapsed after he left you idiot

lol salty zozzonero
hes world class and stay mad

Real's midfield collapsed because they didn't bought a defensive mid replacement. Will you fuckers say that Morata was a genius footballer because Madrid collapsed after selling him?

Crouch was always underrated and a meme at the same time.

Never underrated, never a meme.

Never underrated, always a meme.

Always overrated, later a total meme.

Never underrated (maybe except his Karlsruhe days). Never a meme either.

>Real's midfield collapsed
Yes because they signed Thomas Gravesen as a replacement.

>after selling Morata
they collapsed now because they sold Zidane's entire bench you idiot

Morata
Danilo
James
Mariano Díaz
Coentrao
Pepe

excellent player in his day. huge fucking meme

where did I say he isn't lol
also fuck milan

Makalele was underrated by the guy signing the cheques at Madrid.
>We will not miss Makélelé. His technique is average, he lacks the speed and skill to take the ball past opponents, and ninety percent of his distribution either goes backwards or sideways. He wasn't a header of the ball and he rarely passed the ball more than three metres. Younger players will arrive who will cause Makélelé to be forgotten.

> bootleg david pizarro
>underrated

>le kick your fans in the face man

HIYA

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> (You)
>Never underrated (maybe except his Karlsruhe days). Never a meme either.


He was underrated until his late 20s and became a meme after the world cup 2002

>after the world cup
Underageb&. He was a topmeme before that

Khan never a meme? the fuck he became a meme when he punched a ball with his hands into the opponents goal

also his temper made him a meme

I remember his years under Hitzfeld. He wa really a monster back then. He was really the best. Van de Sar played in Fulham, Barthez was too short, Buffon always injured and Chilavert was a Meme.

probably the last of the unathletic can't really use feet keepers of the 90s-00s.