| Strikers - Their Promise faded away 18:52 - Mar 5 with 5656 views | Gloucs_R |
Name a striker who had lots of potential but never actually made it....
Jermaine Beckford - banged in the goals for Leeds, went to Everton and scored 1 in 4 but didnt make the grade and is now at Huddesfield |  |
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| Strikers - Their Promise faded away on 22:51 - Mar 5 with 1176 views | TacticalR |
After his injury I thought Gallen was still a good player. Maybe he didn't score as much as he used to, but he was a good hold-up man who made thoughtful passes.
Hopefully they can get him back into the youth structure at QPR. |  |
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| Strikers - Their Promise faded away on 23:01 - Mar 5 with 1165 views | FredManRave |
| Strikers - Their Promise faded away on 22:51 - Mar 5 by TacticalR |
After his injury I thought Gallen was still a good player. Maybe he didn't score as much as he used to, but he was a good hold-up man who made thoughtful passes.
Hopefully they can get him back into the youth structure at QPR. |
Mike Sheron
Fernando Torres
Jason Lee. Well he faded away hairwise at least. |  |
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| Strikers - Their Promise faded away on 00:29 - Mar 6 with 1129 views | CowleyR |
Matt Jansen - he was on verge of an English national call-up before he was seriously injured in a road accident in Italy.
Jon Stead, Paul Gallagher and Matt Derbyshire - started out well and lost the quality over the years.
Michael Bridges - injuries ruined his career. |  | | |
| Strikers - Their Promise faded away on 08:57 - Mar 6 with 1085 views | TearsOfaClown |
| Strikers - Their Promise faded away on 21:21 - Mar 5 by Sudbury_Hill_R |
And in a very similar way, Peter Marinelo just a few years earlier at Arsenal. |
Peter Marinello - what a sad tale. He was so hyped up by the press at the time.
Marinello started his career at Hibernian, and could play either as a forward or right winger. He was regarded as being talented enough there that he was dubbed "the next George Best" by the British press.[3] In January 1970 he joined Arsenal for £100,000 (a club record fee and the first time Arsenal had paid a six-figure sum for a player) and he scored on his debut, against Manchester United at Old Trafford on 10 January 1970.
However after that his career quickly took a downturn, a combination of homesickness,[4] his celebrity lifestyle and heavy drinking[5] and a knee injury[5] led to a dip in form which meant he was left out of Arsenal's first team; he did not take part in Arsenal's Inter-Cities Fairs Cup triumph of 1970 and only played three matches in their 1970-71 Double-winning campaign.[4] Unable to break into the first team consistently in his Arsenal career, he only played eight league matches in 1971-72 and thirteen in 1972-73; he eventually left Arsenal in July 1973 for Portsmouth after failing to agree a new contract.[5] In total he played 51 matches for Arsenal, scoring five goals.
He later played for Motherwell, Fulham, Phoenix Inferno, Heart of Midlothian and Partick Thistle. Though he retired a wealthy man,[4] a failed business venture left him bankrupt in 1994,[5] and he suffered a nervous breakdown.[4] He now lives in Bournemouth, Dorset.[5] |  | | |
| Strikers - Their Promise faded away on 09:50 - Mar 6 with 1068 views | Bluce_Ree |
Kevin Gallen. I was never that convinced. Possibly the least composed striker I've ever seen when one on one with a keeper. Only ever remember him scoring once outside the box too.
Theo Walcott's another one. But all his striking potential was wasted by Wenger playing him as a winger. He's playing a few more games up front these days and doing okay to be fair but he's missed out on years of experience in that position. |  |
| Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. He runs like a cheetah, his crosses couldn't be sweeter. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore. |
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| Strikers - Their Promise faded away on 09:51 - Mar 6 with 1066 views | TheBlob |
Dougie Freedman. |  |
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| Strikers - Their Promise faded away on 09:53 - Mar 6 with 1062 views | simmo |
Michael Bridges |  |
| ask Beavis I get nothing Butthead |
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| Strikers - Their Promise faded away on 10:08 - Mar 6 with 1051 views | DesertBoot |
Ryan Babel. Top striker who went to Liverpool for about £12m.
Oddly Benitez saw him as a left winger and ruined him. |  |
| Wish I could be like David Watts |
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| Strikers - Their Promise faded away on 10:19 - Mar 6 with 1043 views | ElHoop |
Stan Collymore
Justin Fashanu
Connor Wickham |  | | |
| Strikers - Their Promise faded away on 10:25 - Mar 6 with 1036 views | ShotKneesHoop |
Any QPR striker for the last 15 years.
Most goals seem to come from midfielders, when was the last time a QPR striker hit 20 goals? Sir Les? |  |
| Why does it feel like R'SWiPe is still on the books? Yer Couldn't Make It Up.Well Done Me! |
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| Strikers - Their Promise faded away on 10:33 - Mar 6 with 1029 views | TheBlob |
Who was that Yank striker - single name - going to be the next big thing? | |
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| Strikers - Their Promise faded away on 10:34 - Mar 6 with 1027 views | BasingstokeR |
Freddie Adu? Him and Cherno Samba |  | | |
| Strikers - Their Promise faded away on 10:35 - Mar 6 with 1023 views | HollowayRanger |
dean aston |  |
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| Strikers - Their Promise faded away on 10:41 - Mar 6 with 998 views | Bluce_Ree |
| Strikers - Their Promise faded away on 10:34 - Mar 6 by BasingstokeR |
Freddie Adu? Him and Cherno Samba |
you've been playing too much Championship Manager 00/01! | |
| Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. Stefan Moore, Stefan Moore running down the wing. He runs like a cheetah, his crosses couldn't be sweeter. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore. Stefan Moore. |
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| Strikers - Their Promise faded away on 10:42 - Mar 6 with 996 views | ElHoop |
Forest have provided quite a few candidates over the years.
Peter Davenport was another one and maybe Gary Birtles too. | | | |
| Strikers - Their Promise faded away on 10:45 - Mar 6 with 992 views | BasingstokeR |
| Strikers - Their Promise faded away on 10:41 - Mar 6 by Bluce_Ree |
you've been playing too much Championship Manager 00/01! |
If we were talking Champ Manager young players I'd have a bucketful | | | |
| Strikers - Their Promise faded away on 10:45 - Mar 6 with 992 views | Rangersw12 |
| Strikers - Their Promise faded away on 10:25 - Mar 6 by ShotKneesHoop |
Any QPR striker for the last 15 years.
Most goals seem to come from midfielders, when was the last time a QPR striker hit 20 goals? Sir Les? |
Andy Thomson | | | |
| Strikers - Their Promise faded away on 12:35 - Mar 6 with 959 views | GroveR |
We might be bad but Chels** has been a striker's graveyard for the past 25 years. With the exception of Drogba, Jimmy Floyd HasToWánk, Eidur Gudjohnsen and Zola (if you count him as an out-and-out striker), pretty much anyone who's gone there has turned into an enormous bag of shite.
Torres - nuff said
Shevchenko - most feared striker in Europe at one point, touch of a rapist at Chels** (to be fair, Rebrov fared no better at Spuds)
Crespo - his record suggests otherwise but I'm fairly sure he was toilet
Mutu - started like a train, ended up like a hoover
Kezman - coveted by everyone at PSV, gash at Chels**
Pizarro - rated in Italy, his career highlight was probably scoring against us in the cup
That's without going into Chris Sutton, Robert Fleck, Tony Cascarino, Mick Harford or Joe Allon (throw that name at 9 out of 10 Chels** "fans" and wait for the look of utter bewilderment...) |  | | |
| Strikers - Their Promise faded away on 12:46 - Mar 6 with 951 views | bob566 |
agree with alot of them. Robbie Fowler should not be on the list though. He was an absolute class striker. | | | |
| Strikers - Their Promise faded away on 12:57 - Mar 6 with 939 views | Jamie |
Bojan Krkic.
Barcelona's highest ever scorer at youth level - 1000+ goals - in Barca's first team at 17, decent goalscoring record but sacrificed as he didn't fit the Guardiola system. | | | |
| Strikers - Their Promise faded away on 13:20 - Mar 6 with 920 views | QPunkR |
Even with all these international names flying about I think Leon Jeanne's gotta be included |  |
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| Strikers - Their Promise faded away on 14:05 - Mar 6 with 896 views | kingo |
The most famous has to be Ted MacDougal. Scored for fun in the lower leagues , got his big move and then flopped beyond belief. |  |
| RIP: Sniffer, Doug and Pat |
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| Strikers - Their Promise faded away on 17:35 - Mar 6 with 863 views | karl |
I thought Kevin McLeod would be a star in the lower leagues but he flattered to decieve, shared more than a flat with Jeffers. |  | | |
| Strikers - Their Promise faded away on 17:43 - Mar 6 with 914 views | runningman75 |
David Nugent, always destroyed my LMA manager back 4 on play station 2. 1 England cap and in the Championship currently with Leicester always thought he would be at a bigger club though struggled in the Premier league with Portsmouth. | | | |
| Strikers - Their Promise faded away on 19:13 - Mar 6 with 876 views | Gloucs_R |
Stil a very good player, all the way to the end. Hardly a failure. | |
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