Barry Ferguson's Hat Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 Tbf, Tony Watt seems to be turning in world class performances, although unfortunately can't seem to score, in every game. According to St Johnstone fans, anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mantis Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 Chris Humphrey. After 4 years at Motherwell he went off to Preston NE when seemingly Rangers were interested. A long saga of injuries and half a dozen clubs later, he’s playing with East Kilbride in the Lowland League. Tony Dingwall. If you believe some people north of the Kessock Bridge he was better than Ryan Christie. Now playing for Raith Rovers in Lg 1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8MileBU Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 Robinho - Footballs next big things and a ‘statement of intent’ signing from Man City when the Abu Dhabi Group took over.Couldn’t stick Manchester, went on loan to Santos. Ended up getting another big move to AC Milan. Got done for sexual assault in Italy during an incident where a girl was gang-raped at a nightclub.Fucked off back to play in Brazil for a while, then moved to a Chinese club, then ended up in Turkey where he’s currently playing for some team you’ve never heard of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mizfit Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 Garry Kenneth - former Dundee United defender who was capped twice by Craig Levein. Last I heard he was playing amateur now.He tried to burst my pal in the north of Tay a few seasons back. Was surreal watching him struggle against amateurs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 15 minutes ago, mizfit said: He tried to burst my pal in the north of Tay a few seasons back. Was surreal watching him struggle against amateurs. I've not watched him play recently but never did particularly rate him. The talk from him about getting back to a decent level smacks of Derek Riordan levels of delusion. Riordan at least had ability to begin with though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senorsoupe Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 Adriano - Looked to be the next big thing for a few years in the mid-200's with Inter Milan, never got over the death of his father and his career went into a tailspin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bishop Briggs Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 Wilfried Bony - bought by Manchester City from Swansea City for £25 million, sold back to Swansea for £12 million and now on loan in Qatar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EH75 Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 6 hours ago, senorsoupe said: It's actually a bit of a sad story. He was considered the next big thing but atrocious luck with injuries really affected his mental health and he ended up completely abandoning football Tbf I think he signed a 5 year big money contract just before his injuries so he'll be set up for life at least. Unless he's spent it all on kebabs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eez-eh Posted February 6, 2019 Share Posted February 6, 2019 Gael Kakuta - touted as the next big thing, so much so Chelsea copped a transfer ban to get him. Made a handful of appearances for the first team, was loaned out several times (as Chelsea do) and now seems to be middling about in Spain after a spell in China. Paul Slane - signed a lengthy deal at Celtic after breaking through at Motherwell, touted as a highly promising player. Last seen at Clyde in 2016 after a half season at Ayr. Dominic Cervi - picked up by Celtic from the States. Called up to the US national team several times but doesn’t seem to have played a single game since being on loan at Morton in the 11/12 season when he was in his mid 20s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
senorsoupe Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 4 hours ago, EH75 said: Tbf I think he signed a 5 year big money contract just before his injuries so he'll be set up for life at least. Unless he's spent it all on kebabs. Last I had heard he owned an estate agency in the Manchester area, so presumably a lot of his money went in to setting up his business Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlipperyP Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 Nobody mentioned that Sala guy that sign for Cardiff.Signed then disappeared. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheScarf Posted February 7, 2019 Share Posted February 7, 2019 15 hours ago, The Mantis said: Tony Dingwall. If you believe some people north of the Kessock Bridge he was better than Ryan Christie. Now playing for Raith Rovers in Lg 1. Fuck knows how. County didn't play any youth players up until the start of last season. For years they all got loaned out to Brora and Elgin, eventually signing permanently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted February 13, 2019 Share Posted February 13, 2019 Garry Kenneth - former Dundee United defender who was capped twice by Craig Levein. Last I heard he was playing amateur now.Small update. Playing with Lochee United now who are the strongest team left in the East juniors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonHMFC Posted February 13, 2019 Share Posted February 13, 2019 Dexter Blackstock was just on Talksport, retired at 31 after a poor season with Rotherham, said he fell out of love with football, didn't want to stay in the game just for the money. He had been investing in property throughout his career after an older player said to him he wouldn't be earning that sort of money all his life. Anyway he has now started a pharmaceutical company which stops the public being able to overdose with prescription drugs. https://mediconnect.io/ Savio Nresko, West Ham's biggest ever signing at the time, played ten games then left. Last heard of after he faked his own kidnapping in Thailand, trying to extort £25,000 from his family. Nigel Quashie, literally went missing during a season with West Ham, he was injured but his whereabouts were never known. Gianfranco Zola when asked about Quashie during his spell as manager and had to admit he had never heard of him, and didn't realise he was a West Ham player. He was eventually tracked down by a West Ham fan who lived in Essex after seeing a poster for "DJ Quashie" on a wall outside a nightclub. He went to the event and Nigel was indeed on the decks. He claimed that West Ham had told him he didn't need to come in for training, so was just running his contract down. After a couple of loan spells for lower league English sides, he ended up in Iceland before retiring. In regards to Jack Collison, he had a tough time. His Dad died the weekend before West Ham played Millwall in the infamous Carling Cup tie. He wanted to play and played a massive in part helping West Ham get a result. He twisted his knee against Wigan the season after and he just seemed to lose that bit of acceleration. He obviously spent a lot of time in the gym as he came back looking like a Sherman Tank. Played in the playoff semi final against Cardiff scoring two goals away from home, and played in the final against Blackpool, but he never looked like he was moving freely. Since retiring he has worked numerous age ranges of the youth development and as mentioned now manages the U16s. His attitude towards his forced retirement is the complete opposite of Dean Ashton who you can tell still resents being made to retire early. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arbroathlegend36-0 Posted February 13, 2019 Share Posted February 13, 2019 Bojan and Giovanni Dos Santos both came through the youth ranks at Barcelona and was tipped for big things. Bojan apparently scored over 900 goals in Barcelona youth teams since joining them when he was aged 8. He broke Messi’s record on becoming the youngest player to play for Barcelona at the age of 17 years and 19 days. He made 104 apperences scoring 26 times. Now plays at Stoke where he’s been since 2014 Giovanni Dos Santos like Bojan played his way up the youth ranks at Barcelona and then had one season with the first team making 28 appearances before moving to Spurs where basically he was a massive flop for Harry Redknapp and he only made 17 apparences in 4 years aswell as being loaned out 3 times. Now plays for the LA Galaxy with his younger brother Jonathan Dos Santos who also played for Barcelona. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7-2 Posted February 13, 2019 Share Posted February 13, 2019 Micah Richards. Still at Villa. Hasn't played a league game since Oct 16 but at least he's been happy sitting on his arse for a couple of years coining it in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nsr Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 On 06/02/2019 at 22:56, eez-eh said: Paul Slane - signed a lengthy deal at Celtic after breaking through at Motherwell, touted as a highly promising player. Last seen at Clyde in 2016 after a half season at Ayr. The kind of example you'd hope young kids would look at when the OF are sniffing around looking to weaken the rest of the top flight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNU_Linux Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 Paul Slane - signed a lengthy deal at Celtic after breaking through at Motherwell, touted as a highly promising player. Last seen at Clyde in 2016 after a half season at Ayr.Slane is now taking steps into coaching. Spent time out in LA working with bairns from the likes of Boca Juniors.https://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/17374587.former-motherwell-and-celtic-winger-paul-slane-on-being-taken-seriously-letting-go-of-the-past-and-putting-amsterdam-behind-him/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightmare Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 On 2/6/2019 at 17:41, 8MileBU said: Robinho - Footballs next big things and a ‘statement of intent’ signing from Man City when the Abu Dhabi Group took over. Couldn’t stick Manchester, went on loan to Santos. Ended up getting another big move to AC Milan. Got done for sexual assault in Italy during an incident where a girl was gang-raped at a nightclub. Fucked off back to play in Brazil for a while, then moved to a Chinese club, then ended up in Turkey where he’s currently playing for some team you’ve never heard of. You've maybe never heard of them, but they're about to win the Turkish Super League. Decent enough level for a 35-year-old player to wind down his career, I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gannonball Posted February 15, 2019 Share Posted February 15, 2019 9 hours ago, nsr said: The kind of example you'd hope young kids would look at when the OF are sniffing around looking to weaken the rest of the top flight. Its a kind of shit example to be honest. He said he got badly injured and Lost a lot of power in his stronger leg. Hence why he retired so early. Why would Celtic care to weaken Motherwell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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