Not really seconds, but what comes to my mind is Loris Karius in the UCL Final, Liverpool vs Real Madrid.. it seems that he disappeared after that game

Gio Dos Santos was such a frustrating case because he had everything to succeed and he just squandered it away. His wondergoal against the USA will forever be his peak.

The one player that always come to my mind when similar lists are made is Mario Balotelli. He had his problems outside and inside of the pitch but he also had the potential to be one of Italy's best strikers of the 21st century. He was a beast on FIFA 14 as well.

I can see the thought on Coutinho, though. But think he's fine with it tbh. being a Spain and Germany champion, and Champions league winner. Think many would take that. Prob his motivation went down after that.

As someone from Costa Rica I cant help but mention Joel Campbell he joined Arsenal at the age of 19 even rejecting a move to Man United and after several loans he was playing in Mexico at the age of 27 and now at 31 he’s back home. He was brilliant at times like in the 2014 World Cup and had some decent loan spells at Betis and Olympiakos.

Tanguy Ndombele would legit be top 5 midfielders in the world if he laid off the McDonalds and put hardwork in.

Kalvin Phillips was great at Leeds he just needs to find his way again

This was before my time but Sebastian Deisler was seen as Germany's new big talent in the early 2000s. Injuries and severe depression destroyed his confidence. I think he retired in his 20s while at Bayern saying "I don't have what it takes. This life isn't for me." I think if the weight of expectations weren't as immense, it would've worked out differently. "I was 19, 20, when the Germans believed I could save their football on my own." - Sebastian Deisler

I’d also say players like bojan krkic,Alexandere pato,Jessie Lingard or Paul pogba that had ALOT of hype around them before they fell off for their own reason’s.

This title doesn’t fit this video at all

Main player who I’ve surprised you didn’t add was Adriano. The career he could of had if his father didn’t pass away when he did

Nile ranger definitely comes to mind, given so many chances and was quality but just kept ruining it for himself. Always a disappointing story to hear

oscar is a big one for me since ive been a chelsea fan my whole life. seeing him leave for money was one of my biggest upsets for the club.

"Ruined their careers in seconds", goes on to highlight player issues persisting for years until eventually nobody wanted them. Mate your content is top notch, no need to clickbait, here I thought that these people were caught snorting coke off club toilets or sum shit like that.

I’m a massive Barcelona fan and a massive Coutinho fan. That being said, I think our signing of Coutinho was one of the dumbest signings in history. He likes to have the freedom to roam, drop into the middle of the park, play long balls, and carry the ball in and out of the wide spaces. Who else does that? The one and only Lionel Andres Messi. They could never work in a system together. Had we signed Coutinho after Messi left, I think it could’ve been a massive success. Messi needed out and out wingers, and unfortunately (for both parties), that’s never been Phil :(

Coutinho won a treble mate scoring and assisting in that semi final too cmon guys

Michael Johnson at Man City was tipped as future England captain, retired at 24 😔

When Ravel came to Derby it really did seem he matured as a person and definitely showed his quality and what he’s capable of

Would love to see a video focusing on dele alli as he is quite a confusing player with a confusing background

The seconds between hazard signing for madrid he was gonna win a ballon dor but flopped it

i miss coutinho. i remember when i bought PES 2019 with coutinho on the cover of it. and he was my idol since i was a kid but i cant say i can idolize him anymore., but i can still say he has a place in my heart and will always be one of my top 5 or 10 favourite footballers

3:50 Tbf, his father was also a footballer. He even played for America as well. But the same thing could still apply to Giovanni. In a way, once you reach fame, you see football differently. And as a Mexican American it still hurts me he didn’t reach his full potential

peter odemwingie comes to mind on this subject for me. Tried forcing a move from West Brom to QPR on deadline day even though the offer wasn’t accepted. Never was same since

It’s sad to see all these legends fall from grace

Hi Viz, great vid always gonna be a banger. I would recommend talk about the Ghana national team. We have the players but our FA is corrupt and keep using the older players instead of the new younger and better ones. Hope you read this. Love from Ghana🇬🇭🇬🇭

Part 2 for Paul Pogba, Adam Johnson, Bojan and Pato. Moise Kean maybe 😂

One player I can't get over is Nile Ranger bro had it all at Newcastle but with troubles with the law and huge attitude problem he went to Barnsley and Sheffield Wednesday on loan then started bouncing between L1 and L2 teams until landing in the National League, sad to see someone have it all and then they throw it away

Honestly, that was way more delicately handled than I thought it would be. Compliments!

I didn’t hear anything about Forlqn after the Jabulani World Cup, or anyone from that Ghana team

As a Galaxy fan Giovani was frustrating. His inconsistency was infuriating. He string together like 2-3 good games and then nothing (I forgot he was actually injured a couple times cause he’d have so little impact)

Thanks for the great content Vizeh, always a pleasure seeing your videos. Also, If they are French speakers over here Id also recommend the youtuber "VALFOOT", he also does alot of "footballers who ruined their careers" videos and really good analysis about players/clubs/teams journeys.

Greenwood had a kid with the women in the audio 😂💀

Berahino man. So talented he was

I'm surprised Adel Taarabt isn't on this list but i guess he did sort of claw it back at Benfica later on

Berahino was decent for us (swfc) but always looked like he needed a big man next to him to deal with the stronger defenders as he’d lost a yard of pace

lol as a mexican gio case is prob the most known yet is common for alot of our players. So much wasted talent over the years

Everyone likes to clown on footballers showing hung over to training and getting in trouble. But you know what, I'm not a hypocrite, I show up hung over to my job all the time. Good for them. They are living life. Legends.

What an amazing vid viz watched the whole thing in the first min. Keep up the great work.

Not sure if you'll see this but thauvin ended his career after moving to tigres... I bet you didn't know he's back in europe currently playing for udinese

The thing with mason is his wife literally forgave him gave him a family are married he fix with life why would y’all still attack him yes he doesn’t deserve to be in a big team but come on

Aubameyang when he got that new contract for Arsenal, Alexis Sanchez to Man United were also huge fall offs

What a moronic thing to say that a player ruined his career when all they did was not live up to the early hype that hundreds upon thousands of players get

As a Mexican seeing gio dos santos hurts as he had so much potential

As a wolves fan bright enobakhare and Owen Otasawie were frustrating. Both had amazing potential but awful attitudes

A somewhat "lighthearted" suggestion for a future video: why not make a tier-list with the clubs you like and the ones you hate, regardless of country?

OSCAR … HULK ….. BOJAN ….. DENNNERRERR…. Especially DENER

Can't help but think of Sandro Tonali setting himself WAY back by the age of 23. It also seems like Marcelo Flores made a bad call going from a possible contract extension with Arsenal to Tigres in Mexico.

That greece player which celebrated a goal with a, hmmm, questionable gesture, and was banned.

Can't believe you didnt show ravels solo goal for west ham against spurs. As a west ham fan I will never forget that one, a wassted telant indeed.

Berahino has a chant by the Albion fans that I won't say but it is to the tune of Hey Lady. But I remember going to Molienux as a West Brom fan to watch him play for England U21's alongside Harry Kane he scored and wasn't booed. Gareth Southgate asked the Molienux crowd not to boo him.

Has a Belgian hearing him say Zulte Waregem is something.

I think an interesting topic for another video would be players who got their careers ruined through no fault of their own. And I don't mean cases like Roberto Baggio or Marco Reus who despite all the odds had great careers and we just wonder what more could they achieve with functioning bodies (Baggio would have page-jacked the Matrix I'm sure). Just heartbreaking stories of complete failure (although it may be a bit depressing)

12:41 “we’ve all heard the audio so it’s baffling he’s still playing” is it? is it really? what do you think actually happens in that audio? not raping her that’s for sure. he pressures her for sex and gets angry when he can’t get his way but that’s not the same as actual rape. not to analyse a crime too much but you can rape someone without saying anything. and in case you didn’t notice he was suspended for 18 months and is widely hated. it’s not like Thomas Partey where the allegations came out and he just carried on playing like nothing happened. I’m not defending him but people are having their emotions swayed by that audio too much, he doesn’t rape her in it, that’s the fact. we actually don’t have evidence at he raped her at all. the images are more damning actually, because he’s obviously hit her. but to say it’s baffling that he’s still playing after that evidence came out - it actually isn’t, you just want to maintain a pure and idealistic view of football that these types of characters aren’t in it. footballers are not role models - they are stars, which is an important difference. you don’t have to be a nice person to succeed in football. you just have to be good at football. everyone wants to pretend otherwise but the Greenwood case just shoved it all in our faces that that’s not true.

Saido Berahino damn that's a name i haven't heard for years

so Ravel Morrison didn't have the work ethic of Paul Pogba or Jesse Lingard? Damn that's saying something!

Coutinho still hurts me, he fitted flicks system to a T, pain Barca wanted so much atm for him

I read almost all the comments and noone mentioned Adrian Mutu. edit: also Micah Richards.

Look at some of the other players at 3:28 Christian Atsu caught my eye in particular

omg as an albion fan ive been waiting for a Saido story for a while!

As a villa fan I'm gutted about courtinho..... that's the most I've ever been excited by a signing

if there's a part 2, i'd recommend nicolas anelka, the man who threw it all away with a hand gesture

During the 2014/15 season I thought saido berahino was going to be the next big thing so frustrating he got in his own way.

Ben Arfa, Oscar and James Rodriguez should be in there

As a dutch person i instantly thought of ihattaren.

Remember Brazilian Adryan? Was supposed to be the next big thing but ended up being a flop when he came to the Championship

I know these are some obvious shouts but the two that come to mind for me are Freddy Adu and Hatem Ben Arfa.

For me the biggest talent I’ve seen at my club was Jese . That ACL injury ruined him and after that he had problems with his partner, he missed training sessions at psg , completely ruined himself shame :(

I saw the title and i thought "oh yeah Loris Karius"

Also Escobar the Colombian defender that got killed for an unlucky own goal

I would say Ever Banega,his attitude cost him big,his link up with Messi at the 2010 and 2014 World Cup was good. And Alejandro Papu Gomez although peaked after 29 and won world cup with Argentina ruined his career. His combination with Ilicić at Atalanta BC was epic until he disrespected Gasperini and now is banned for 3 years from football after drug test. Got himself early retirement.

Could u do a video on Mario Balotelli . One of my favourite players when I was younger but just seemed to dissappear. Still always sign him on fifa career mode

Maybe not all of them are applicable, but I can think of a number of other players who didn't necessarily reach the peak they were anticipated to reach: Andy Carroll Yoann Gourcuff Zakaria Bakkali Hachim Mastour Jese Rodriguez Alen Halilovic Jorge Valdivia (the Chilean Ronaldinho) I think it's also a matter of time until Guendouzi joins that list.

5:16 “the best 14 year old he’s ever seen” 🤨🤨🤨

Imo I wouldn't say Giovanni ruined his career, he went of his own volition to la galaxy which, while definitely not at the same level as Villarreal, was one of the strongest clubs in north America at the time, asides from the fact that Los Angeles is both close to his birth nation of Mexico and has a significant Mexican population, which I'm sure were significant factors for the signing (as well as, of course, the wages). Footballers are humans too and sometimes it makes sense to lower your level. Glaring omission in my opinion would be Karius, who in 90 minutes went from promising talent to laughing stock

Slightly unfair on Coutinho who has still been a really good player. Nice to hear someone tell the truth about Mason Greenwood though.

Gio dos santos is arguably one of the best mexican players for the national team. he didn’t ruin his career, he just didn’t fully live up to his potential

should do a part two about players who went to china\saudi league

Love these vids

Don't know if you can consider Philippe Coutinho as one of the biggest flops with the others. 3 league titles, a Champions league and 68 caps for Brazil. Sure he's gone downhill but harsh to throw him with Morrison and Berahino. 🤣

Based on the title my mind first went to all the players now doing exhibition games in the Middle East, whether it be in Qatar or Saudi.

Another masterpiece from you Liam.🙌

Thank you, for keeping Dele Alli off of this list. My heart wouldn't be able to take it 🥲

Rolando Aarons springs to mind. He was supposed to be a talent for Newcastle

Harry Kewell going from Leeds to Liverpool. Sir Alex wanted him at UTD instead he went to liverpool and groin injuries completely ruined him. He was so good at Leeds

Bojan Krkcic, an insane talent ruined by pressure

Neymar Jr was on track to have a great career with PSG and then flew off to the Saudi League against players nowhere near his calibre. He absolutely knackered his potential

Great video

Somehow i forgot Coutinho played for Bayern Munchen

Dele ali comes to mind

Stephen El Shwawwy bothered that, Alex Pato, Robhino, Adan Juanzai

Seeing gio dos Santos on this is heartbreaking 😔

Fernando Torres part 2

Robinho has to be up there since Man City first good season

I'd say douglas costa deserves to be on that list

Just disagree with coutinho. You can't say that someone that played at barcelone, liverpool and bayern that they destroyed their career

His brother played for LA Galaxy. Cmon bro ez money. Thats all

Dos santos was class at ipswich! Probably the best loan ive ever seen at town. Shame we couldnt buy him

We've all heard the audio, but still the girl has delivered him a baby and married him AFTER the audio had been recorded. So, he's not guilty

Ranger (Newcastle). he got jailed Greenwood (Man U)

Charly musonda and zakaria bakali