7 Footballers Who Had Incredibly Misleading Debuts
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- čas přidán 7. 06. 2024
- From former Manchester United prospect Federico Macheda to Chelsea centre-back Thiago Silva, HITC Sevens takes a look at a number of footballers whose debuts didn't come to reflect their future at a specific club.
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Watching Manchester City down the years I think the best debut I ever saw was Carl Griffiths, we signed him for 500,000 from Shrewsbury(then in the 3rd Div) I think he came on as a sub 20mins or so to go against a very good Leeds side scored and really turned the game. Our next game was at home to Everton and he scored very early on, but was sadly injured within the first 15mins... In the rest of his time with us he only managed 2 goals in 20 odd games and he dropped down the leagues again
Do you think his injury was the catalyst of his demise?
@@thesecond4767 Honestly I think it was more of a confidence thing going from the 4th tier to the top is a huge ask, even then he really did explode in those two games, I will add that the Everton game he was kicked to hell and when he came back it was into a side that was also struggling to score goals(and in general). I will maintain though that had his career been managed better he would have played at the top level for an extended period of time, but anyway I guess that's football the margins between success and failure are so small.
Wow a what a find... a golden relic!
A genuine man City fan!!
Thiago Silva's redemption in Chelsea after the bad start is quite amazing to see ⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽
definitely
he finally won the elusive CL
It's not, good things happening to a club like Chelsea is never positive
@@bri1085 Salty
@@rohithraman6488 salty how? I'm allowed to just hate Chelsea without being salty
Seeing the Thiago Silva section makes me think a video about footballers who suddenly and unexplainedly suck against certain teams/rivals/players on a consistent basis would make for a very fun watch!
Vidic against torres
That Thiago Silva entry reminded me of a video idea with some potential (hopefully). I don't think many people will know that Thiago Silva used to play for FC Porto and Dynamo Moscow on his first attempt in Europe, but that his second attempt in Europe was the succesful one. Could you list seven Brasilians who failed on their first attempt in Europe, but succeeded on their second one?
Jese scored on his debut for Stoke, the winner against Arsenal nonetheless. Then he was awful for the rest of the season, refused to play, and we got relegated. Ah well.
Pirlo at NYCFC could be a decent honorable mention here. He was subbed on in the 60th minute on his debut against Orlando City and almost immediately grabbed hold of the game - it was just a joy to watch. Most everything after that game, however...
One that stick out for me is Eden Hazard's debut against City in the Comm Shield. He was awful compounded by triping himself up trying a backheel
Day 17 of asking: Ranking every center-back pairing in the premier league right now.
Freddie Sears for West ham is a great shout. Came on scored winner in prem at 17 hanging in youth goals. Spent carrer failing to score for ipswitch n colchester
MOTD pundits suggested he could be the next Shearer bcos he celebrated in a similar way
Reece Oxford
OMG he made a video from my idea :D
I left a footprint on this channel^^
EVEN USED BOTH OF MY EXAMPLES :D quevedinho!
Congrats!
Loved the video! Wouldn’t mind seeing a “what is going on at inter” video, been a mad summer for them
This was a good video, thanks Alfie!
Always makes me happy when any Peruvian players or teams make a video. I support Universitario so an Alianza flop is extra enjoyable
I think Rome's most famous son of Rome be should Francesco Totti.
Nah, everyone knows Rome's most famous son is Gazza, burping on Italian telly 😆
Day 1: 7 biggest three-way transfer in football history
Leicester city had a pretty big one in 2015
Jan 2018 - Giroud to Chelsea
Batshuayi to Dortmund
Aubameyang to Arsenal
7 most controversial 3-way sex tapes 🤔
2003 - Beckham to Madrid, Ronaldinho to Barcelona, Ronaldo to Man Utd
@@RichO1701e I get Beckham leaving paves the way for Ronaldo, but where does Ronaldinho come in to play there?
Seeing Alfie's early videos,he certainly mislead us into thinking he wasn't special✨
I thought you would mention Larsson won the European golden boot while at Celtic which is incredible considering the goals to points ratio for Scottish based players
Before watching:
Willian is 1000% in the list
I was right :)
3:49, Jimmy McGrory is regarded to be Celtic’s greatest ever player, he carried the team when he was playing, scored 50+ goals in one season, Celtic didn’t even win the title when he had two incredible seasons!
I still think it’s Jimmy Johnstone, but McGrory gets criminally overlooked because of the era he played in.
Ricky Van Wolfswinkel
Signed for Norwich for a record fee to much hype and scored on the opening day of the 2013-14 season against Everton. He didn't score again that season, then spent the next few out on loan before going back to Holland for a bag of crisps.
Great video, really good, one thing West Brom aren't a Birmingham team
Ricky Van Wolfswinkel. Cost Norwich 8 million and scored a great header on his debut against Everton but that was his only league goal.
At a lower level, I remember Portsmouth signing Peter Marinello from Arsenal for £100K in 1972, a huge sum in those days. His debut was in a friendly against top division West Ham where he played a crucial role on the wing as Pompey won 4-2. But in the league he achieved very little and Portsmouth struggled in the lower reaches of the old Div 2 for a couple of years before being relegated.
In 2000 the Cherries signed Chukki Eribenne and his debut was memorable because of the 30 yard rocket which he tucked away in the top corner of the net. Dean Court went mental believing that they had the new Pele - come the next game , many kids had his name on their replica shirts and the place was buzzing with expectation for this new hero. Unfortunately Chukki never scored again for the club but did manage to gain his own chant after creeping up behind the Reading Mascot , lifting of his head and getting chased which earned him the then controversial chant which went “ Chukkis’ gonna get you “……I have a feeling he was moved on to Weymouth then Havant & Waterlooville or vice versa. I do remember Peter Maranello being touted as “ the new George Best “ because it’s the first time I’d heard this phrase connected to another player. Best of luck to Pompey 👍
4:29 - aha, Chic. What a nice and chilled guy, always with gentle and fair tackles. Never went over the top, never got booked or sent off. What a nice guy.
*in all seriousness, I love seeing players that had his fire and competitiveness. In that respect, he is someone to look up to.
the picture of eddie howe when you said anyhow had me in absolute stitches haha
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Do some videos on women’s football please? -Greatest ever player best 11.
-Current WSL best 11.
-7 reasons to watch/support the WSL (as it’ll be on Sky Sports from now on).
I would like a 7 reasons to watch the wsl
@@taxman4197 yeah. But if he doesn't himself watch women's football then I dont think he'll Make a video on this
I'm not trying to be rude, but those videos would probably garner very few views. I'm sure the networks that televise the women's leagues have this covered.
@@lalitthapa101 I’m sure there’s a lot of topics covered on this channel which need researching.
@@davidwikeley What I meant was Alfie can't really make these videos like "why watch WSL" if he himself doesn't watch it. For example- me making a video "why watch the bundesliga" while I myself don't watch it wouldn't be good.
Other topics I can agree. I'd love for him to make a video on why women's football is so unfairly hated. That would be a banger topic.
0:16 how lucky is he that his shirt is the same colour as the ball?!
Day 1: The rise and fall of Gretna FC
Great idea.
Day 11: where would a team of Alfie Potts Harmer lookalikes finish in the premier league?
I think we already know the answer...
The streets need this video to happen 🙏🐐
Best German players in the premier league of all time. (Day 170)
Also I don't care if you consider this spam. I'm doing this for too long, I'm not giving up now.
If you don't believe my number, just go back to the previous videos. I'm at the bottom most of the time, but I'm there.
I've seen your reply for a ridiculous amount of time.
Michael Ballack is amazing
Havertz and Wimo GOATner
Alfie should make the vid just to make this guy stop commenting this over and over again
Stfu man
7 footballers on the wrong side of 30 who got better and won more trophies than
in their teens/20’s.
Worth noting that Macheda also scored a pretty late winner in his second game for united, vs Sunderland
Moral of the story:
Don’t judge too quickly
John Guidetti should be mentioned when he played at Feyenoord. He was bagging goals like nobody's business and I thought he was going to become a superstar, but never did
Make video about managers rivalry
It reminds me of Eden Hazard’s debut against Man City in Community Shield where Chelsea lost 3-2 and people thought Hazard is such a waste of money. He end up become one of the greatest Chelsea’s players ever. :)
@Bangsat Somyeondan BTS That was a taste of what was to come at real madrid unfortunately
Please do a video about" Psg financial stability" 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Correct me, if I am wrong, but Andreas Thom scored in his debut for Bayer Leverkusen, Celtic Glasgow, Hertha BSC Berlin and the German National Team. But the only club, where he really left a lasting impression, was Celtic. Even though he only played for 3 years in Scottland.
I’d like to see a reversal of this video, the worlds best players who had shocking debuts for clubs they ended up achieving great things with too
Ok nvm I commented after the first player lmao
To be fair macheda scored the winner in his second game as well 😂
Finally HITC Sevens mentions Peruvian football!
Also a notable example is Martin Fenin. A Czech attacker, who arrived as 20 years old talent to Frankfurt in 2007. He was a finalist of FIFA 2007 U-20 World Cup in which he scored 3 goals and won the award "Talent of Year 2007" in Czech Republic. In his first ever game in Bundesliga he scored a hattrick (Frankfurt won 3:0), but since then everything went down for him. Alcoholism, depressions, injuries, this all led to his downfall. In 2013 he came back from Germany to the Czech League, but injuries didn't let him to play football regurarly. He was losing his form, he then shortly experienced French second division, German third division and in 2017 he ended his professional career in Czech second division with FK Varnsdorf at the age of 30. Now he plays only on amateur level with FK Řeporyje in 6th divison of Czech League system
As soon as I saw this I thought of either Mark Bright at Leicester and Ricky Van Wolfsvinkel at Norwich
BEST COMEBACKS FROM CAREER THREATENING INJURY, CIVILIAN OR SOCCER RELATED, with respect to Eriksen...
Japp Stam was only a Titan at the back because he was seemingly exempt from the rule that prevents defenders from all out physically assaulting opposing forwards
Re Ibrahimovic - It's worth noting that Cesena that season (either newly-promoted or starting their second season in the top division, I forget which but I think they'd just been promoted) were very impressive against the bigger teams, and stayed up with relative ease. That first-season courage and enterprise was very much with them, and in that context, it's not quite so surprising that Zlatan didn't make an impact against them...no-one else really did that either!
Than newly promoted Cessna had a very fast start and some good results, though were inconsistent and were a 2 season wonder like Huddersfield or Bradford
@@elaychscrazyworld4173 Good to know my memory hasn't got any worse! Yeah, I remember they went downhill about as quickly as they'd started climbing up. After a few games of the 10/11 season I thought they'd be staying around but they kind of brought their A game to the top teams and faltered against the teams they were expected to beat. Now you mention it, Ipswich is another example of the 2-season wonder and probably the biggest one for me - first season, 5th in the Premier League, second season, relegated in 18th, and like Bradford, they haven't been close since.
@@danielkarmy4893 I think Huddersfield is the easiest case:
* very fast start
*decline in form
*beat big names (like Hudddersfield beat Man U) but struggled v smaller ones
*survived with room to spare but bottom next season.
Please do a list of young players that went on to do much better and achieved more fame than their teammate who, at that time was seen as a wonderkid with great potential. Example- a teammate of hachim mastour who is now a regular starter in the serie A. Someone who played in the shadows of a failed wonderkid in the past but became a better player years later.
Nice idea 👍🏿😊👍🏿
@Tshering Pejore Ronaldo & Rooney but on a less extreme scale. Both wonder kids,both had brilliant carreers but Rooney was the better wonderkid but Ronaldo was something else when he became older
@@cryptocsguy9282 for one to feature in the list, the other supposed wonderkid should have had a failed career.
@@tsheringpenjore3939 Rooney failed at international level 😏 for the most part, does that count?
Very proud to be part of that 0.3% of Peruvian viewers 🤝
How about 7 players who's signing foreshadows relegation (7 most relegated players)
i like this one
Fourth time: We need a revised Nordic best eleven.
I would definitely be happy with a "what if Kalmar Union went to the Olympics"
With at least one inclusion from each country my eleven would be
Olsen
Lustig - Lindelöf - Jansson - Krafth
Ekdal
Ødegaard - Forsberg
Damsgaard - Pukki - Isak
(Please outdo me, I might be horribly biased)
it’s the little things that keep me watching this channel like what he says anyhow, and eddie howe pops up 😭
What about Freddie Sears's debut for west ham in 2007-08 ? I remember he scored goal in his 1st match then fell off pretty quickly 😭😭😭🤧
Day 3 of asking XI players that turned down moves that they now regret
Alexis Sanchez to Man city would for certain make the list.
Berardi to Juventus his chances are getting slimmer as the days go by.
Lastly that I can think of is Berahino who if I recall rejected arsenal and signed a new deal then wanted out months later
Alexander golovin turn down chelsea, he could won The UEL and UCL
Do the debuts which predicted the player’s future at the club
Could do something similar but instead debut campaigns/seasons where the player reversed their trajectory afterwards
The West Brom part was hilarious
Danny Cadimiteri or whatever he was called. One super match for Everton against Lfc
What's going on at Sheffield wednesday
How about your 7 favourite players to watch from each league?
What's going on at Barca, Real, Inter, Juve etc
DEBT DEBT DEBT EVERYWHERE~
Thought Willian got 3 assists on his debut
Pretty sure one doesn’t officially count because it went in for an own goal
I remember fredrico mecadea at man United back in the day 😭😭😭😭. Flopped so badly 😢😔. We still had a brilliant team back then between 2007-2009. 3 league titles in a row , 1 champions league title , 2 champions league finals in a row , 3 champions league semi finals in a row & the best player in the world CR7 😎😱
Kinda disappointed you didn't include the great ROYSTON DRENTHE for Real Madrid. 20 minutes into his debut against Sevilla in the Spanish Supercup he scored an absolute banger from 40 meters and looked unbelievable all game... he was being hyped upon his signing as Madrid's response to the emergence of Messi at Barcelona, and after that performance people genuinely thought that he could be the guy. It was all Madrid, football fans and the press would talk about for the next 2 weeks... aaaand after that he only scored 3 more goals in 65 games over 5 seasons, went on to play for a handful of clubs with unpronounceable names and now he's playing in Spain's 4th tier at 34.
Also, 2 years prior to that, ROBINHO made arguably one of the best debuts in football ever against Cádiz. Seriously, if you haven't seen it, look it up. One of the best individual performances I've seen coming from the bench. Every ball he touched he turned it into gold. He had been hyped up back in Brazil as the New Pelé (sure, one of many, but they were really serious about Robinho), and Madrid had to go through a really tough negotiation process with Santos that lasted from November to August, with a lot of media drama and attention, and in that match Madrid's effort and patience seemed more than justified... after that he was half decent during his 4 seasons at Madrid, but never lived up to the hype and is overall seen as a flop in Spain.
Someone forgot to add the good ol' background music eh?
Ariel Lassiter scored twice off the bench on his Houston Dynamo debut, scored once since
Chic Charnley is pronounced Chick, like a baby chicken. Loving the chic vibe though hahahah he was as hard a working class man as there ever was.
Massive celtic man as well . Used to sit behind me at parkhead
Current 20 Premier League teams total spending on transfers in their entire history. Burnley have spent £170m ever apparently.
Day 177: Ways to fix VAR with your suggestions
It's the Eddy Howe for me 😂😂😂
I’d put Evra, a truly shocking debut that was.
Vida as well, 4-3 loss to Blackburn.
Shocked Jamie Carragher didn't make this list! Scored on his debut and went on to make over 700 appearances for Liverpool, only scoring like 3 more goals
I would have included Vaclav Kadleć and his debut for Eintracht Frankfurt. As far as I remember, he scored a hattrick against Energie Cottbus(?).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Kadlec
Day 135: Barcelona 2011 vs 2015 Combined XI
Day 55-All the original european cup teams or champions league teams, where are they now?
0:16 😱 his hairline is fresh, i need a trim so badly lol 👌🏾
For a while basically every new striker at Eintracht Frankfurt scored twice in their first game, but failed after that.
What about lindgard who scored 4 for Birmingham on his debut but scored only 3 more the rest of the season
Day 3 of asking for what happened to Livorno?
Day 1: 7 Second Choice Managers Who Became Club Legends
OMG YOU INCLUDED ALIANZA LIMA WHATTTT
Day 1- 7 English Players who represented england cricket team and an english football club
Are there any big name players who did that?
Jaap Stams’ penalty shoot out miss against Portugal was described by Trevor Brooking as “ probably the worst penalty I’ve ever seen “ whist Frank Ricard could be seen to be saying “ f**cking h**l “ as the ball travelled over the stand .😁
What happened to Panathinaikos?
Every teams best ever kit (premier league)
West Bromwich isn't in Birmingham - It's in The Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell which is part of The Black Country along with Dudley, Walsall and Wolverhampton.
#3 Willian 😂😂😂 and I lost it.
As a Chelsea fan, I have respect for his time, but the day I heard "Wiliian is better than Ziyech", I almost knew I'll have rhe last laugh!
Ben White is already considered a 50mil flop after one game by everyone and their momma. Smh
Didn’t know Maarten Stekelenburg played for Utd
Kalou with Bootfire too, he was gud against Corinthians
Day 16 of asking : ranking the managerial careers of Alex Ferguson's ex players (alt titles - 7 best/7 worst)
Day idk of asking for starting xi of former empires like Austria Hungary
Try Alexander Büttner
Rank every champions league final since 1993
Seven teams with the single best transfer windows
I predict that Mangala will be on this list.
What about William Prunier? A central defender Signed by Alex Ferguson. First game against QPR looked really good. Second game he was awful as they lost 4-1 to Spurs. He never played for Man Utd again.
Macheda the Legend
Januzaj???
Why are all the different leagues all on different channels in the uk, why the prem is on four and why it is a lot cheaper in Ireland for the same channels. Plus Champions League is free on Irish terrestrial tv and now free on live score
Mark travers debut clean sheet vs Tottenham