Anyone remember when Pato and Falcao were among the best strikers in Europe? Good times...

I'd put Robinho here, he was "the next Pelé", Pelé himself said that

Adu signed for a professional club at 14 I still look at my mum when the doctor asks whats wrong

Mario Balotelli, Sebastian Giovinco, Jack Wilshere, Phil Jones, Nani, Lucas Moura, Marko Marin and Lewis Holtby.

Xherdan Shaquiri, Ibrahim Affaley, Sergio Canales, Iker Munian, Bojan, Balotelli,

imagine if pato reached his potential omg he was incredible back in day...cant believe there are ppl who know neymar but not pato

Dos Santos was nasty at Mallorca and Villarreal though. Didn't reach his potential, but still really good. Specially in his first season at Villarreal.

Quaresma, Nani, Balotelli, Ravel Morrison

El Shaarawy

Before Watching, prediction is Ballotelli

predicting that Giovanni dos Santos will be in the list

Gourcuff should be on this list, cant even find him on the comments

Kim Källstrom and Kennedy Bakircioglu. Another two FM legends that never lived up to their talent.

What about Bojan?

Where is Adnan Januzaj, Bojan and Marin?

Who else thinks Renato Sanches will be a failed wonderkind?

Saviola, Aimar, Ortega- All called to be Maradona successors. Also Keirrison, Kerlon, Jean Carlos Chera, Balotelli, Bojan Kirkic. Adriano?

Any other suggestions out there?! We've seen some great shouts for Balotelli and Ravel Morrison?!

Dos santos is amazing in the MLS

Carlos Vela should definitely be on this list too..

Another name on this list should have been Ebi Smolarek. He was a really promising talent who played for Feyenord and Borussia Dortmund. He was also the son of famous Polish football player Wlodzimierz Smolarek and although he had a decent career alcohol problems prevented him from reaching the very best level and later on in his career he played for the likes of Racing Santander and Bolton Wanderers.

They DEFINITELY reached their potential in fifa :)

Pato and Robinho were my idols growing up. Man these players were such a joy watching.

Pato injured yesterday again,.. he just doesn't have luck, does he? What a talent he was, i adored this guy

Brazilian edition: Adriano the emperor, Robinho, Ganso and Dener. I miss Dener.

Most of this players were just overhyped and didn't have it to begin with. But there were some real talents that could become legends, like Adriano, Vicente, Deisler, Quaresma and most importantly Ivan de la Pena. To this day I think Ivan de la Pena was the most gifted playermaker ever.

Memphis Depay will probably be on this

Sahin,Cicinho,Halilovic,Odegaard,Pato,Falcao,Robinho,Diego Costa,ADRIANO,Lucas Moura,BALOTELLI,Giovinco,Coutinho,Illarramendi,Ashley Young,Saha,Guti,Nakata etc etc etc

you forgot ADRIANO

Ibrahim afellay, balotelli

As a fan of France, Yoann Gourcuff should have been on here. They were calling him the next Zidane and he started pretty well actually. He performed some of the same moves and was a key player for Bordeaux (same club Zidane once played for) when they won the title in 2009 and made the ECL quarter finals in 2010. He even France player of the year for 2009. But then we all found that poor bastard had glass legs. You sneeze on him and he gets injured for like 2 months. Frustrating. He had so much potential, especially for a country has a history of world class creative midfield players.

I can't believe Walcott didn't make the list

you forget Wilshere, (the forgotten) Ganso and Sotris Ninis

that team pato joined. one of the top 5 club team of all time . and he was breaking into the first team of such a quality team. so sad ,even ricardo quaresma one of my fav players , i kinda think it was mourninho's fault :/

Mario Balotelli?!?!

Bojan Krkic, Halilovic, Emre Mor are about to join this list.

i fear martin odegaard will be on this list one day

I think it's safe to say Adu was never 14 when he broke through, he was probably closer to 21

Robinho, Afellay, Bojan, Balotelli, Obertan, Januzaj...and the list goes on.

Even though his career wasn't bad, Micheal Owen never reached his true potential imo.

Kerlon was not even on your list. Shocking

Pato is such a nice guy. I wish he got more playing time at Chelsea because he was decent when he played. He scored a sick penalty on his debut

I still recall watching live Adu, Pato and Aguero play in the U17 Word Cup in Canada. I remember exited about going to the Brazil-USA game hoping for a show from the Samba boys, but what I saw was Adu and an impressive USA team run circles around the Brazilians. It was unreal to see the USA completely dominate that game. I also got to see other countries play, and it was clear that Argentina's Aguero was the top talent in the tournament.

Pato was one of the best in the world with less than 20 years old, he had potential to score more than Ronaldo and messi every season, he was world class, but the injuries finished his carear.

Marko Marin, Diego (Ribas da Cunha)? Werder Bremens wonderkids

Ricardo Quaresma Nuri Sahin?

i like your channel, very well researched while most Football channels only know about messi and Ibrahimovic (and dont even know about them very well)

Adu is more of a cautionary tale. Partly it is because we in the US are looking for our great soccer hope. As you said this lead to Adu having to much pressure placed on him. He was doing ads with Pele and was a fixture on tv ads. Now he is playing second division here whenever a new phenom comes up Adu's name is always mentioned.

bojan and Balotelli?

I always get severe depression when somebody mentions Giuseppe Rossi. Thanks for making me want to die.

i remember when dos santos went to spurs and i was just shocked and its a massive shame he never lived up to all the hype around him. But the one that hurts me the most is pato as i watched a lot of Milan back then and was obsessed with him but he just kept on getting injured and started ti become slightly depressing

Going back a little further for someone as old as me when they were under 10 the likes of Julian Joachim, Danny Cadamarteri, Francis Jeffers and even Emile Heskey were touted as future England greats. You could argue with Heskey's cap tally but he hardly lived up to his teenage billing.

Alex hunter should be here

Where the hell is Balotelli?

LORD BENDTNER!!! As a very promising talent, he got his debut for Arsenal at the age of 17. Now he's 28 and has been without a club since April.

Anyone remember Kerlon? I just did some check ups on him, and he is currently still playing, in Slovakia, after a career that took him to Italy, Holland, Brazil, Japan, America, and Malta

Love the content of the videos, but all the presenters are such knobs

Are you wearing the St.Pauli kit

Yano what, well done. Very well presented and very clear. Keep it up.

Nuri Sahin :( We thought he'd be world class but it never really happened for him. Still a solid player. I knew from the moment Arsene Wenger said he was a great talent, he was destined to be 4th place.

Giovani dos santos is. Beast!!! 🔥 don't know why he's on here but ok

ADEL TAARABT?

Royston Drenthe, Keirrison, Bojan and Slobodan Rajkovic are all honorable mentions

Balotelli, Ravel Morrison, Nani, Robinho, Bojan, Januzaj (still young), Jack Wilshere, Mario Gotze, Thiago Alcantara.

Pato is still *only* 26/27, plenty of time left to fulfill his potential

Another hipster in a St.Pauli kit..

Rossi is training with Man U again. I don't know what odds he will have at making it back though, not at 31 and 126 knee injuries. But wish him the best since he's a local kid, growing up next town over from me..

No one English player ?? That's funny. Wilshere, Owen, Walcott, Phil Jones and many more. English media build these guys up to being the next world class player and they never are

in future- youri tielemans :) :D

Adnan Januzaj will be a part of such a video, it's hard on Utd but that's how it will be

Adu had talent and could've been a superstar if it had not been for the fact he was labeled as the next big thing in US soccer and massive expectations heaped upon him.

What are you talking about, Anderson was world class at United

A little early to put Gio Dos Santos on this list imo. I watch him often here in MLS, and while he started off poorly he's really got his game together recently. He's finally developed great chemistry with Keane and Gerrard in LA and he's been playing exceptional the past few months. He's only 27, I could see him going back to La Liga within the next 2 transfer windows.

Yann M"Vila, Jack Rodwell, Tom Ince, Fraizer Campbell, Marouane Chamakh, Younes Belhanda, Oussama Assaidi, Yoan Gouffran, Emmanuel Riviere & Aleksandar Mitrovic

Where is Bojan?!

10. Giuseppe Rossi 9. Breno Borges 8. Anthony Vanden Borre 7. Valeri Bojinov 6. Fran Merida 5. Ismail Aissati 4. Anderson 3. Alexandre Pato 2. Giovani Dos Santos 1. Freddy Adu

Denilson, Balotelli, Anelka, Kleberson, Ortega, Mendieta, Lee Sharpe, Mutu, Quaresma, Paul Gascoigne. Adriano, George Best, Collymore, Jeffers, Joaquin, Bojan. Nii Lamptey, Riquelme, Jody Morris, Robinho.

I remember Pato’s debut for Milan. Miss those days.

Aantoont Vanden Borre did a cool skill for Anderlecht, and he actually play really good for Belgium.

Fabio Paim, the guy that you never heard about, he was better than Ronaldo in the sporting academy, so much that the club started giving him cars and big contracts when he was still under-18, he started partying and was not the same anymore, he coulda have been the best player in the world, instead he is playing in like the 3rd portuguese division or something.

I really hope both Pato and Falcao become the prolific strikers they used to be. It hurts me to see them drop massively

Giovani is playing pretty well with the Galaxy though. He's a true game changer and one you don't want to come across if you are playing against him.

At Portsmouth we all loved Vandem Borre

Odegaard (maybe too soon to tell), Ben Arfa, Walcott, Lucas Moura, Bojan

Blaming Milan' medical staff is a ballsy movie. They are the best. THE BEST.

take my soul with your extra hand gestures pls

If they do a part 2, I feel like Rashford is gonna be here

I would argue that dos santos potential was realised internationally. As he was one of the greatest players in either the african world cup or the one before

The feels. Bought every single one of these in Football Manager.

Lots of misinformation on Dos Santos. He was the best player on every club he's played on besides Barça and Tottenham. Never got a fair chance on the latter because of Redknapp. He was amazing at Villarreal, leading his team to victory against the best teams in Spain, and has always been fantastic with his National team. Signing with LA was an odd move for sure.

Where's Macheda?

+ ramon diaz (one from the 80s; he was considered to be at one level with maradona, after they became junior world champions in 1979 together); van der meyde; ricken!; saviola,...

i can t belive it fran merida was amazing for braga (my club)

Great video as ever,but i believe that others players could be inclused on this list.Please,make a part 2 of this video.

Adriano ex. Inter milan player.. he was fast, strong, skillfull, awesome freekick taker, master of power shoot and long shoot, good header, could pass several oponent with his skill,,, in his glory day, he was better than ibrahimovic.. search for his video and ready to shock for what he could do back then

Mario Balotelli --------------- Serie A (3): 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10 Coppa Italia (1): 2009-10 Supercoppa Italiana (1): 2008 UEFA Champions League (1): 2009-10 Premier League (1): 2011-12 FA Cup (1): 2010-11 FA Community Shield (1): 2012 UEFA European Football Championship Runner-up: 2012 Golden Boy Award (1): 2010 FA Cup Final Man of the Match (1): 2011 UEFA European Football Championship team of the tournament

dos santos? he may not have reached the absurdly high expectations but he was and still is a great player, he always performed for the national team and was a great player to have on the pitch, hopefully he can return to his 2011 days when he destroyed the USA

Francis Jeffers, Luke Chadwick, Gael Kakuta, Davide Pettruci

Guovani Dos Santos is my go to striker on Fifa... Well he used to be

Bojinov is a stat padder. Bottles up numerous chances a game. Just so happens to be at the right place and right time to score. As a Partizan fan I'm glad Djurdjević and Djurdjić have sat him.