10 Wonderkids Messi Tipped For Greatness in 2015: Where Are They Now?
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- čas přidán 5. 06. 2024
- Back in 2015 and 2016, as part of Adidas' 'Backed By Messi' campaign, the six-time Ballon d'Or winner, then of FC Barcelona, picked out ten players who he felt could go on to dominate world football.
From Manchester United forward James Wilson to Chelsea star Timo Werner, HITC Sevens takes a look at those 20 footballers and sees where they are now. - Sport
Alfie, I need a breakdown of Barcelona’s finances. One minute they are too broke to register players, then they are spending bucketloads.
This would be good
They sold future cash flows at a discount to get money now.
Like when people release equity in their house that's essentially what barca are doing
@@lorenzomartinez8543 Additionally: It becomes very obvious that companies can survive without having the necessary cash for their daily operations JUST because others WANT to do business with you.
Barca is such a huge club, people still stand in line to play for them. Lewandowski has the better team and ability to win internationally at Bayern. His yearly paycheck of ~20 million is most likely not met in Barcelona too.
He still striked himself to Barca.
People desperately want the club to survive, including banks and business partners outside of football. Sure, they wanna earn money too but surprisingly that's not the first and foremost goal rn. Everyone banks on the possibility of Barca actually reducing their debtflow (the money that actually goes out every months to repay) and somewhat keeping the sporting side together.
It's not that complicated. It's like selling a part of future income, so they can buy players now. They are still very much in debt and they will earn less in the future because they sold a part of it.
The fact that so many Americans are on the list is a testament to Messi not being involved in the selection.
Lol agreed I live in the us and don't even know any of them. Then again I couldn't give a rats about us football.
@@cisco9281 cool story bruh
@@josearias9825 what
@@cisco9281no way you haven't heard of the lord and savior Gyasi Zardes
I don't think nearly any of them were picked by Messi.
Fun fact: Chanathip Songkrasin one of Messi’s 2016 selection, just played against him in a PSG vs Kawasaki Frontale friendly match a few hours ago.
Ah, Gyasi Zardes.
The player who scores more goals on accident than on purpose when playing for the national team.
I've seen this man score by accident with bad first touches in the box
@@davidzamarripa6141 That's got to be some sort of a talent.
Wasn't Crouch a bit of the same? :D
lol fair enough, but I still love the guy as a Columbus fan
You should watch Chicharitos highlights lol
Video suggestion - 7 greatest 10 man performances
Accursio Bentivegna my god what a blast from the past. I can’t believe that in 2015 that Palermo team had the likes of Belotti and Bentivegna seemed like the future of Sicilian football. If I remember correctly I think Beppe Iachini was the coach most of that season. I watched a lot of Palermo games then, can’t imagine what my reaction would’ve been to hear that since then, the club has gone bankrupt, ceased to exist, been refounded in Serie D and worked their way back up to Serie B (so far), Maurizio Zamparini has passed away, AND the club is now officially part of City Football Group. A lot can happen in this game in 7 years.
Day 5:
A detailed look at the state of Crotone would be nice, going from Serie A in 20/21 with a 20 goal a season striker to Serie C by 22/23. Two relegations in a row, something surely has to be wrong at that club.
If you go into the history of a lot of Italian clubs, it usually comes down to mismanagement of finance and a new owner coming in who bites off more than they can chew.
Foggia, Reggiana and Catania are three examples I can think of, off the top of my head.
Like my team Sunderland
Oh shit they got relegated to serie C?
Most stable italian yoyo club
@@gailwyattstevewyatt like a lot of clubs boo hoo mackem
Glad to hear Messi has the same eye for talent as Pele has 😂😂😂
Just shows Messi could never work as a scout for any club😂
Messi didnt pick them it was someone else
Pretty obvious this was just an Adidas marketing project with just Messi’s name attached to it. Just look at the amount of American / Chelsea players in it who I bet he had never seen or heard of back then
Fun fact #13:The first player who won the Golden Boy award was Rafael van der Vaart in 2003.
Don't think many people realize how good he was at that age. He was rated above the likes of Sneijder and Ibrahimovic at Ajax. Truly magical. Even though he covered deceptively much ground during matches, he never really lived as a top athlete. Could've been much more (although his carreer is definitely still very good).
@@daarom3472 wasnt this an issue for Sneijder as well?
I think the dutch generation they were part of, could have crowned their time with a National trophy or two if they would have lived as professional athletes.
@@bongoan for Sneijder it started a bit later I think. He was never Ronaldo level of dedication but until his 2nd season at inter he was fine.
I'd love a documentary style video talking about Heart of Midlothian, especially in the 21st century when they experienced financial difficulties in the early 2000s only to be bought by Millionaire Vladimir Romanov and he promised Champions League Football for the Edinburgh club only for that fall flat and enter administration by 2013. Would be a great vid Alfie.
Agreed 💯
Isn’t Romanov living in a submarine in Siberia
As an Oregonian myself, I'd say less than 1% of us are keeping up with Oregon State Beaver Soccer.
I go there and barely hear anything about the team 😂
In the future I think people will stop comparing their players to Messi..
Cause its nearly impossible to arguably be the GOAT in Goalscoring, Dribbling and Playmaking simultaneously
Along with 7 Ballon d’Ors, 6 Golden Boots, 1100 G+A, 35+ Trophies, numerous records etc etc
Lol Ballon Dor?A bunch of journalists and people voting for thier friends
@@oladejioriola5672 most corrupt trophy in football
@@oladejioriola5672 Ballon d or is still the most prestigious individual award in football followed by the European Golden Shoe..sometimes the most deserving doesn't win but only those who deserve wins the Ballon d or.
@@kurtchester7073 LMAO get a load of this crap.
@@oladejioriola5672 well Ballon d’Or is older than UEFA Euros.. so 🤷🏻♂️
But I digress, you can ignore the Ballon d’Ors if you want and add 6 time UCL Top Scorer as well 🤷🏻♂️
On Zardes - LA Galaxy kinda torpedoed his career after his breakout season by shifting him to the wing and even to fullback for a bit. When Columbus got him they moved him back up top and low and behold he delivered.
Despite them being the most famous team in the league, Galaxy is one of the biggest jokes in the league at this stage and an inability to develop players is a big part of it.
Shelton on the other hand....woof. BAD miss. The guy isn't good at...anything. SKC's starting striker (Alan Pulido) had a surgery in the offseason that ruled him out for the entire season and Shelton has looked DISMAL in his stead. Muyl's a passable MLS squad player, but as a Philadelphia Union supporter I will only remember him for putting his penalty in the playoffs against us last season in the Delaware River (when Nashville managed to go 0 for 4 on the shootout)
I always thought the point of the "LA Galaxy," was to be like the Lakers(or kinda like Real Madrid). Winning with star players. Not developing. Take a look at their DP list compared to other MLS teams.
@@Mad_Intalect they don’t even do that anymore though
Shelton at least used to be fast. Like Zardes, they needed to use their speed to chase down their poor first/second touches
I remember him from FIFA's "The Journey".
the galaxy are extremely, extremely poorly run. they just sign big names without considering if they will fit the team or not, then fill the rest of the roster with mostly mediocre players. chicharito is decent but needs service and the galaxy can not create chances. douglas costa is only there for a paycheck and kevin cabral is one of the worst finishers i have ever seen at the professional level. galaxy are a joke, i don’t even think it’s about winning at this point just selling tickets and club merch. the Lakers of the mls
Wilson is back home in Stoke and we love him. He's going back up with The Vale.
You could make it up to the Oregon State Beavers by talking about College soccer in the USA and the positives and negatives of the system and how it impacts players career before (childhood) and after being in college and playing. Can also do a women’s component too if interested!
Roberts actually signed for Sunderland on a permanent transfer in January but only on a 6 month contract. He did just sign a new deal though so I understand the confusion, a lot of our fans get it wrong too.
As a resident of Oregon for over a decade, and has seen and played with guys from Oregon State U, it is actually astonishing that they thought Messi watching some guy from here would be believable💀😂 OSU is one of the most overhyped Division 1 teams out there, a lot of D1 schools are actually. If you ever actually watch the football, it's alright at the best of times, and snooze worthy at the worst. It's a testament to the main issue of football culture in the US. Here talent is somehow still considered surplus to requirements, coaches and scouts in the states don't care if players are good, they care if they look the part sadly🤦♂️ They look for guys who are built like CR7 and Varane, and think they'll just teach the guy to not have the reactions of a dead cat and 1st touch of an elephant. Case in point, when was the last successful USA player who came out of a college here...? Nobody. The US wants guys who LOOK like theyd be world beater athletes who in reality, just like Shelton, would get made to look a clown against even the Barca u14 team. Pulisic, Adams, Mckennie, Reyna, all of them weren't brought up on American style football, and thats why they're as good as they are now.
The problem is the mentals and technicals aren't there and thus American coaches reject talent and go for does the guy look like the athlete thus missing a Garrincha (bow-legged to put it lightly), Peter Crouch (extremely tall and lanky, not particularly imposing or fast), or Ailton (quite heavy) who doesn't quite look the part.
You should do this type of video for other years. This one was very entertaining.
Great vid man
a documentary on the afc Wimbledon on the nine promotions in eleven years, how they’re a fan own club and how they have a stadium in plough lane now.
The story of they lost the club, how the F A allowed that and won’t allow that anymore.
How they were very close to moving to ireland
How they went up the English football leagues.
It would be a good documentary video if you can do this. #thepeopleschannel
Yes
Have you copy pasted this on literally every single video?
@@ollieduracell no. I don’t spam Alfie
@@BALHAM69 yes, you do spam this same comment every time
@@ollieduracell alright mate
WILSON MY BOY, UTV ⚫⚪
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Judging by the choices on this list i highly doubt that Messi compiled it.
Messi ain't that perfect, dude.
@@beardedentity still i doubt messi would pick so many players from the usa to begin with
Excellent stuff
Day 291: Indonesia XI If All Eligible Players Had Declared For Them.
Yeah
saddil ramdani will still start
This is quite interesting because a lot of Dutch players/ players with Surinamese descent can still play for Indonesian national team
Keep dreaming bocah
Who cares about Indonesia? 😂
It's pronounced wissam not vissam ben yedder, this is an arabic name we don't have the v letter in the arabic alphabet. Ben Yedder isn't german so no need to pronounce the W in Wissam as a V, Timo Werner is german so you can certainly pronounce the W as a V. The W in Wissam is similar to the W in Winston.
Too bad deal with it
The number one football content channel
Whether he really did these or not, the effect of Messi mentioning you can pretty much destroy your career. Everyone will have their eyes on your ready to criticize everything you do instead of letting you grow
When will you release your documentaries on Turkey's Big Three (Fenerbahçe, Galatasaray, Beşiktaş)? I remember you teased them back in your Süper Lig video.
Best German players in the premier league of all time. (Day 353)
I will not give up until the video is made or Alfie himself tells me to stop. Everyone else telling me that will be ignored.
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.
And yet still no one cares
Never thought I'd hear the day the Oregon State Beavers would ever be mentioned on this channel. They're my favorite college teams. Having said that, I don't think I knew Shelton actually played for the Beavers. I do remember Danny Mwanga being drafted 1st overall a few years before him. He also came from Oregon State, but wasn't very successful in MLS either. In fact, the Beavers have never even won an NCAA national soccer title. As far as men's team sports go, the baseball team has all 3.
Well as a Vale fan i was quite suprised to find one of our players on this list lol
Ah, Chanathip Songkraisin, or as Vietnamese know him: "The guy that is constantly compared with Nguyen Quang Hai"
The Thailand vs Vietnam rivalry could make for an interesting video...
These two lists look like commercial stunt, especially the second one with a Thai and Gambian. Also the fact that so many players from US were featured is somewhat suspicious
I remember, I used to sign Zardes everytime I did a career mode in Fifa 16, he turned into a beast everytime.
Goarrn James Wilson!
The problem is the media, especially in England. They judge a players over one good season and not a collective. Cough cough, Darwin Nunez
Exactly! However, that can be a good thing. Boro just got £12.5 Million plus add ons for Djed Spence after one good season on loan at forest. We got him on a free , he had a terrible attitude by all accounts and I'm over the moon with that type of money for a total bang average jobber. Thanks spurs!!!
I didn't expect to see Hermann Goering at Nuremberg. Was he being unveiled as a new signing? They need somebody to get back up to the Bundesliga 🤣 x
DAY 2 of hoping you could make a video about South African football and why South Africa hasn't progressed as a national team to reach the levels of West African Nations despite having the best league in Africa and having considerably good amount of funding
SUPA DISKI!!!!
This list was definitely not made by Messi.
Half is British/signed in England, the other half is US Americans. It couldn't be more obvious lol
From what I understand about him, he would have picked an awful lot of Argentinians BUT his success rate at predictions would be the same as in this list
Obviously... this seems like a case in which someone made the list and then slapped Messi's name on it to give it some credibility. As if Messi would know who most of these are...
Nice crossover pic there with Boga and Ederson, Alfie!
Respectfully, Messi should stay away from being a scouter or a sporting director.
He can't anyway. Mbappe is sporting director at PSG now
These were all the guys Messi used to take Stevenage Boro to Champions League glory in championship manager
Part 2 for next year (cz it's going to be 7 years from 2016)?
Would love to see you that an in depth look at Barcelona maybe an update on your previous video
I can’t believe you didn’t include Bogas outstanding season at my club Birmingham 😔
me: *clicks on a Messi video*
Alfie: *H E R M A N N G Ö R I N G*
me, a German: *What?*
me, also a Jew: *scared laughing*
Rollercoaster of emotions man haha
Yooooooo everybody quit the negativity in the comments alfie works too hard for that
Day 2: Best XI with only trophy-less players. (Similar idea to "7 best players without trophies" but that was outdated and a XI would definitely be more intriguing.)
Harry Kane up front deffo
I zoned out for like 2 seconds while watching the introduction and I zone back in to "That is Hermann Göring"
I feel having a Top 10 on this channel is sacrilegious
Video on acun ilicai and what he’s doing at Hull finally something for us to be happy about at the club
Damn I think I may have also picked James Wilson as one for the future, man did he make my prediction wrong
The starting 11 from Wayne Rooney's last DC United game as a player. Where are they now please!
interesting suggestion...
7 biggest bad calls/worst opinions featured on this channel!
Similarly, the best ones too!
would be very interesting to see
yea there is no earthly way Lionel Messi was able to watch OSU Beavers games. even though i live in Seattle, i would have no idea how to watch PAC-12 mens soccer on TV. this is despite University of Washington (based in Seattle) making it to the Division 1A mens soccer national championship last season, so that goes to show how unlikely it is that Messi had ever watched Khiri Shelton at OSU. finally, any American who follows soccer closely would know that stars of the league are rarely ever found in the MLS draft. the best you can reasonably hope for is a reliable squad player that is coachable and a good teammate.
The whole links between the films and rap group characters is crazy. Growing up listening to wu tang i always love the martial arts sounds and samples. The wu tang definitely doesn't get as much recognition as they should
Really wanted to have the context. Had no memories at all about Messi doing this
Your Shelton section is fucking class! 🤣
Your intro speeches are fucking hilarious 🤣
Marketing guy: Can we say Messi has tipped all these young players for stardom??
Messi's Dad: ok
Alfie Potts Harmer's top 10 English Future Kings
I had high hopes for James Wilson lol a left footed forward with an eye for goals. Such a shame he squandered his chance. i still remember what Warren Joyce says about the behaviour of young players like Januzaj and Wilson once they break into the first team.
Big James Wilson Vales number 9
Black & white army PVFC🏆🏆🏆
forgot james wilson even existed shows how old i am now 🤣
You know what! I'll sign them on my career mode club and try to make them what he predicted
Day 29 - The Fall and Rise of FK Velež Mostar
From a Club that has beaten Borussia Dortmund, Twente, Derby County and many others to a club that was forced from their own stadium, reduced to nothing during the Bosnian War, becoming a mediocre top-level team in the 00s to nearly being forced into folding in 2016 to its amazing comeback to European competitions in 2021 seeing the early exit of Greek giants AEK Athens in a sensational win in Athens!
Can you do a seven players forced to leave and how they did in light of the De Jong saga
Day 1:
The story of Pro Vercelli, one of the most successful teams in italian history with 7 league titles but now play in Serie C
10 manys!
Alfie, please do Barcelona. These guys are taking the p***.
The sudden appearance of Hermann Goring was a bit of a shock.
When I saw the first pic of Goehring, I thought that it was really weird. Then I thought it was kinda funny. Then I thought it was weird again.
8:53 I wonder what made you go with this picture
Video starts at 1min50sec
tbf some of em like dolberg i think everyone thought would’ve been good
Ten? TEN! What is this topsy turvy world I have woken up to Alfie?
Day 516: Ways to fix VAR with your suggestions
Sorry Alfie Patrick Roberts wasn’t on loan last season he was on a permanent just an initial 6 month deal which has now been extended
In Malaysia we also have Messi Kedah, Messi Terengganu but both of them not meet the expectation for Malaysia Fans
ok
"10 Wonderkids Messi Tipped For Greatness in 2015: Where Are They Now?" - writing this comment . . . . but the bit about me, aged 35, got cut out the final video. Along with the bit of Obafemi Martins and Freddie Adu.
Day 216 of asking why is messi better than pele
As an Oregon state graduate I can say I’m super offended lol🤣
That Rony Lopes signing has to be one of the worst in recent memory
Cornet looks set to join Everton on a loan-to-buy, according to The Guardian today x
Shelton plays for my local team and while I’m not a professional footballer, I can confirm he is not very good. Again I’m not a professional so I can’t really speak on his skill level, but yeah we as a fan base are more than annoyed by his lack of goals.
Day 6: Uruguay's starting XI that won the first World Cup in 1930: Where are they now?
You mean like where are their graves?
Dead
could you add time stamps please
9:31 is that the guy from fifa 17 story mode ?
Classic example of why most good players ain't good managers
8:50 crucial ligament
I almost slapped myself when I heard the name Khiry Shelton. Sporting are stuck with him at striker, since their starting striker is out for the season. During his career, he's had 8 goals in 87 appearances. Christ.
Timo Werner beeing the record goal scorer of a 2009 founded plastic club named after a disgusting drink. Impressive.
Shelton is the American Jordan Bowery.
Non had the doping of Messi, should make a video of the balco scandal which would shown state doping of Spain especially in cycling and football. Which the judge inexplicable destroyed the evidence hiding state doping, which would of banned Barca etc
Gwan the alfie
8:55 what is that picture😂😂😂
who would you have picked? with the benefit of hindsight
He watched highlights on CZcams and picked from there
All of them were wearing or under contract with adidas