Players you were wrong about.

Players you thought would be good but ended up failing / players you thought wouldnt be anything special but ended up excelling.

It can be just signings for a team or entire careers.


For example, I thought Ibra would do very well for us for various reasons. Of course I didnt expect he would be used like a number 9 but indeed he wasnt good enough for us.

One I didnt believe would be this good was Iniesta. I just didnt see what Rijkaard saw in him at the time, didnt see anything special at all...boy, how I was wrong.


I am sure there are others, I will remember and add later on.

But what about you?

Busquets. Initially I thought he was only but a shadow to Yaya and an overrated player overall.
However no matter how I dislike his character I can see how he is a brilliant DM

I thought higuain would fail miserably at real madrid. I used to watch him in river and he never seemed anything special.

I thought Gourcouff would be world class ages ago.

And I was convinced messi reached his peaked 3 years ago

Robinho, in his last season at Madrid he really looked like he could become Ballon d'Or material. Now he's just an good attacker.

Imho it's bullshit to claim that "Ibra wasn't good enough". He was excellent until he fell out with Pep and lost all his confidence and became unproductive. Ibra could have been excellent for Barca with the right coach who could've handled him.

i thought alntintop will play a major role this year n would be a great player/signing

wasnt following the player before he signed for madrid

but i dont see anything special..


also thought torres would do very good at chelsea.. meh me..

Nah, thats not true. He got his goals, but he didnt fit at all. Individually he wasnt horrible, but his overall game made the team much less effective.

When Bojan played, he scored just as easily and the team functioned MUCH better.

On a playing level, it didnt work.

Pep shouldnt of used him like a normal number 9, but bottom line, he wasnt anything like as good as I felt he could have been.

feghouli... he had flashes of brilliance in pre-season, i thought as he got more game time he would provide them more often... boy how wrong was i

on the other hand, guaita... loaned to segunda three years ago, third choice at valencia a year and a half ago, now one of the best keepers in the league... it's even better when i remember the outrage emery caused by not loaning him out for 10/11, then our first choice and second choice got injured and guaita never looked back

Arbeloa.

I thought he would flop at Real Madrid, but in all fairness he has been pretty solid.

i am going to be honest here, when Benzema came i thought he would be like the Dutch players, i.e. sold after the first/second season, his first seasons performances made it look genuine.... he then turned it around and i was :vagi:

Also never thought Juanfran would turn this good with Pathetico, he hardly saw the pitch with Reyes there, now with Reyes gone he has owned that flank

che wrote:feghouli... he had flashes of brilliance in pre-season, i thought as he got more game time he would provide them more often... boy how wrong was i

on the other hand, guaita... loaned to segunda three years ago, third choice at valencia a year and a half ago, now one of the best keepers in the league... it's even better when i remember the outrage emery caused by not loaning him out for 10/11, then our first choice and second choice got injured and guaita never looked back

che wrote:feghouli... he had flashes of brilliance in pre-season, i thought as he got more game time he would provide them more often... boy how wrong was i

on the other hand, guaita... loaned to segunda three years ago, third choice at valencia a year and a half ago, now one of the best keepers in the league... it's even better when i remember the outrage emery caused by not loaning him out for 10/11, then our first choice and second choice got injured and guaita never looked back

Guita for me is the future for GK after Casillas retires. In my opinion he is better than De Gea (who I like) as the difference is he has great command and leadership within his box unlike the latter.

Guita is by far one of the most underrated keeper in the Liga if not Europe.

As for the Alves Bandwagon, Guita is comfortably better.

And I hope you agree with me here

Until recently I thought Tomas Rosicky's career was done with Arsenal and that he offered very little of value to the team whenever he played. His recent form has proved me very wrong, though.

After Andrey Arshavin's first year and a half with us I thought we had a genuinely world class player who would take us to another level. Turns out I was very wrong about that one, too.

To a smaller extent, I believed Theo Walcott would be playing at a higher level than he is now. Not that he's bad by any stretch, but the ability he showed from a young age suggested he could be even better than he is now.

I thought Huntelaar would last more than half a season

:vagi:

i was really disapointed when we let Joe Cole go, boy was i wrong
also thought Zhirkov would have a big impact at chelsea and tbh i wasnt that wrong because when he did play he was class but he was just injured way too often

I dont think Giuta is going to take the place ones Casillas retires.De gea is 5 years younger and has showed much much better potential.He will be the one,i believe.

I used to think Jonathan Greening is shit.

But then, he benched Borja Valero and cemented his place in WBA's starting XI with commanding displays :vagi:

Ozil for me was a unnecessary buy

I also believed Benzemas Madrid career was over.

I was deceived by Cannavaro though,yeah he won two la liga titles with us but he was far from the defender he was with Italy/Juve.

I thought andy carroll was a good player judging his first half season performance,but boy i was decieved :vagi: so was Daglish :vagi: some used to compare him with llorente back in the day makes me

Arquitecto wrote:

Guita for me is the future for GK after Casillas retires. In my opinion he is better than De Gea (who I like) as the difference is he has great command and leadership within his box unlike the latter.

Guita is by far one of the most underrated keeper in the Liga if not Europe.

As for the Alves Bandwagon, Guita is comfortably better.

And I hope you agree with me here

oh absolutely, guaita >>> alves... people overrate alves because of the saves he makes, but that comes at a price... he saves one on ones in a really weird way, he doesn't rush out and close the angle completely like other keepers do, but leaves himself 2-3 metres everytime... this does give him the time to make a reaction save but also leaves him looking like an absolute retard if the forward can chip him, see ronaldive's goal at mestalla this season or messi's first in the 5-1 rape

also he's utterly useless in the air, while i'd go as far as to say that guaita is the best in the league at dealing with high balls

don't agree on the casillas's replacement part though, he's too old for that... as i said before, spain's future gk is now in his teens/very early 20s because casillas will be playing until he can't walk anymore... if he retired at, say, 40, guaita would be 34 at that time, that's too old for a replacement tbh

oh yh forgot Kaka, never would i've thought he would be this inconsistent and avergae

On behalf of all Arsenal fans: Song

Nuri Sahin.
I thought be would have been a starter, but alas, that did not eventuate. Granted, he has been injured for like forever, but I still get the feeling that had he remained injury free, he still wouldn't have been a starter or first choice sub.
I hope my initial prediction will ultimately be correct.

The Verminator wrote:On behalf of all Arsenal fans: Song

I think iam the only one in existence that saw this potential in Song when he was on-loan at Charlton all those years ago, iam so glad he's finally showing what he's capable of he's a wonderful player.

As for me i said at the start of the season that Demba Ba is shit and wont even score 5 goals

I was also wrong about James Perch who i considered a joke and not even a decent championship player but in the last month no matter if he play DM, LB,CM or CB he has been fantastic and definitely has my confidence for next season and beyond.

where is idrisozet to say badstuber??

Always thought Busi was just a pretender. But he is a genius.