CalmJimmers Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 Dunno why but was remembering Michael Johnson recently, the midfielder for Man City around the Sven era. Looked excellent and somebody who could have been a regular in the Premier League and England team. Then seemed to disappear off the face of the earth. He had mental health issues and retired at the age of 24. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/man-city-michael-johnson-news-21535314.amp Another player who fell off the earth was Michu. Was scoring for fun at Swansea in the Premier League and got called up to the Spain team. Then just vanished and ended up at an Austrian amateur team. Any others you remember? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur Bach Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 Freddy Adu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helmut_rooster Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 Francis summat? Had big ears and wasn't very good. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0wl18 Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 Amr Zaki. Absolute unit who had a great start at Wigan under Bruce. Bit of a helmet and, his career turned sour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g-owls Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 Giuliano Maiorana Man Utd signed this kid from non-league Histon in 1988 following a trial. Afterwards Ferguson said it was the best performance he's ever seen from a trialist. He was seen as the next 'big thing' and I remember his first start. A televised game against Arsenal, where he played well. It then went down hill, and after making the grand total of seven appearances he finally left on a free in 1994. He went to the Swedish second tier before coming back to England to play for Newmarket Town alongside working for his family's upholstery business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g-owls Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 Here's an interesting article about Maiorana. He even says himself that 95% of Man Utd fans will have never have heard of him. https://thelab.bleacherreport.com/from-nowhere-to-dreamland-and-back-again/ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scram Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 Keeping with Man U - Macheda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fudge27 Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 Fernando Torres. Close to the best player on the planet during hosr first 18 months at Liverpool. Didn't get close to it after his injury Robinho also moved to City and was poor and career never recovered On a scale more like the OP is talking, Micah Richards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edmontonowl Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 Some kid called Berahino 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Socialist_Owl Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 10 hours ago, CalmJimmers said: Dunno why but was remembering Michael Johnson recently, the midfielder for Man City around the Sven era. Looked excellent and somebody who could have been a regular in the Premier League and England team. Then seemed to disappear off the face of the earth. He had mental health issues and retired at the age of 24. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/man-city-michael-johnson-news-21535314.amp Another player who fell off the earth was Michu. Was scoring for fun at Swansea in the Premier League and got called up to the Spain team. Then just vanished and ended up at an Austrian amateur team. Any others you remember? Elano from those same Sven City years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Socialist_Owl Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 Hatem Ben Arfa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Screen Door Slams Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 Dale Jennings................signed by Bayern Munich from Tranmere............currently plays for Prescott Cables Oh............and Lewis McCugan 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcmigo Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 Marco Negri at Rangers - an absolute goalscoring machine for 6 months, then terrible. Michael Owen was the best player in the world, but terrible from Newcastle onwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ellis Rimmer Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 Kerlon, video of him dribbling the ball on his head like a seal then never heard of him again 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIG D Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 Francesco Sanetti. Lasted approximately 5 minutes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalmJimmers Posted January 4, 2022 Author Share Posted January 4, 2022 12 hours ago, g-owls said: Here's an interesting article about Maiorana. He even says himself that 95% of Man Utd fans will have never have heard of him. https://thelab.bleacherreport.com/from-nowhere-to-dreamland-and-back-again/ Right interesting - cheers for that mate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalmJimmers Posted January 4, 2022 Author Share Posted January 4, 2022 12 hours ago, scram said: Keeping with Man U - Macheda Was it Napoli or somebody they got him from, and they kicked off after that goal about him basically being taken from them and totally undervalued? A year or two later he was turning out for Doncaster. Think he was valued just fine Lazio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalmJimmers Posted January 4, 2022 Author Share Posted January 4, 2022 3 hours ago, Screen Door Slams said: Dale Jennings................signed by Bayern Munich from Tranmere............currently plays for Prescott Cables Oh............and Lewis McCugan Remember he was on Soccer AM almost every week for walking through defences for Tranmere. Proper weird what's happened with him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalmJimmers Posted January 4, 2022 Author Share Posted January 4, 2022 40 minutes ago, Ellis Rimmer said: Kerlon, video of him dribbling the ball on his head like a seal then never heard of him again I was trying to remember the name of him just the other day! Defenders would attack him with murderous rage on the videos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g-owls Posted January 4, 2022 Share Posted January 4, 2022 10 hours ago, Socialist_Owl said: Hatem Ben Arfa That bad injury he got playing for Newcastle against Man City did for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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