7 Footballers Who Had The SHORTEST Primes

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  • @redchampion
    @redchampion Місяць тому +513

    Paco alcacer, one of the craziest and shortest primes I have ever seen

    • @ballsinspector
      @ballsinspector Місяць тому +1

      paco at dortmund was something else honestly

    • @56postoffice
      @56postoffice Місяць тому +45

      That is true. If any player I thought would've gone on to bigger things, is that guy.

    • @Tris2000
      @Tris2000 Місяць тому +23

      True. Shame he didn’t stay at Valencia. Peter Lim was hardly going to turn down 30€m from Barcelona, with Munir on loan as part of deal. Much as I hate Lim, it probably made financial sense. Considering Alcácer’s prime went down so quickly, it may have even been the best decision, with hindsight. My guess is Alfie didn’t pick him because he did have a number of glorious years at Valencia. So probably not a one-hit-wonder like the others.

    • @redchampion
      @redchampion Місяць тому +17

      @@Tris2000 I am talking about his time at bvb more so

    • @rikki6
      @rikki6 Місяць тому +4

      Fifa 14 legend

  • @JLvideocp
    @JLvideocp Місяць тому +316

    Adriano's story is so sad, but also very important, because it showed everyone how mental health has a huge impact in every human, even footballers

    • @Cold_Logic
      @Cold_Logic Місяць тому +6

      Adriano was the original Haaland

    • @misakworkneh6917
      @misakworkneh6917 Місяць тому +2

      "every human" as opposed to "every robots"?😂

    • @morkujinirukandji4820
      @morkujinirukandji4820 Місяць тому +15

      @@Cold_LogicAdriano wasn’t a tree trunk like Haaland. He could dribble and was very involved outside the box. Way better footballer than haaland

    • @Ash-BRFC
      @Ash-BRFC Місяць тому +4

      Football is the job of humans. Why people don't auto accept footballers as humans I don't know , so disrespectful

    • @andrasszabo1570
      @andrasszabo1570 Місяць тому

      "every human, even footballers" 😂

  • @MrAtzu
    @MrAtzu Місяць тому +179

    Luka Jović could be a shout. He was unstoppable during the 18/19 season with Frankfurt, scoring 17 goals in the Bundesliga and 10 goals in the Europa League. Then Real Madrid signed him for €60 million and his career took a complete nosedive. Ever since moving to Los Blancos, Jović has never scored more than six league goals in a season.

    • @rikki6
      @rikki6 Місяць тому +9

      He was so fun on fifa 19

    • @escape2nirvana
      @escape2nirvana Місяць тому +11

      Totally forgot about him! Good shout

    • @konzza
      @konzza Місяць тому +5

      I do like to see him mentioned here.
      Personally after watching couple of games from Frankfurt, i never thought that much of him as a footballer. He was a good fit for their high scoring 3 striker system and scored a lot, but more for being a willing runner, than actually having any other world class attributes.

    • @tlcgottkaiserdermassen
      @tlcgottkaiserdermassen Місяць тому +8

      @@konzza Exactly. He was incredibly reliant on Haller and Rebic. When he din't have those two, he faltered.

    • @maccabees1000
      @maccabees1000 Місяць тому +4

      @@tlcgottkaiserdermassen good shout, but he is still only 26, it looks unlikely, but he could still turn it around

  • @oh1yeah2
    @oh1yeah2 Місяць тому +181

    Adriano's "I have a hole in my ankle and my soul" is actually poetically beautiful imo

    • @youknowlos
      @youknowlos Місяць тому +8

      Beautiful and tragic 😢

  • @bens4602
    @bens4602 Місяць тому +16

    Piatek is a shout, he was everywhere in 2018-19, had AC Milan fans chanting his name. Scored immense figures. Then went totally off radar.

  • @Leanbean4
    @Leanbean4 Місяць тому +117

    Man…how could I forgot about the cheeky girls 22 goals in 18 games for Real Madrid. What a time

  • @JimTheFly
    @JimTheFly Місяць тому +46

    That second Cisse goal vs Chelsea is still one of the greatest goals I've ever seen. That ball took at least a 45-degree turn in midair and he made it dip so much that he had to get it over a leaping Cech and under the bar, and it wasn't even close, but I swear if he was 2 feet to his left, that ball is curving so much that it doesn't go for a goal kick for for a throw-in. Absolutely memorable stuff.

    • @bricktop.
      @bricktop. Місяць тому +4

      That strike was an utter MADNESS. All time banger of a goal fair play

    • @JimTheFly
      @JimTheFly Місяць тому +2

      @@bricktop. I swear I remember Cech just standing there like "... what the F can I do about something like THAT?"

    • @vman99
      @vman99 Місяць тому

      You can see the utter shock in the Chelsea fans too. They had no idea what happened and frankly neither did we.

  • @lmd3556
    @lmd3556 Місяць тому +312

    Brazilian here. You pronounced Grafite correctly 👍

    • @silviofelix1991
      @silviofelix1991 Місяць тому

      😅😅😅

    • @ricardopperez
      @ricardopperez Місяць тому +10

      Almost, the last "te" sound more like "cci" like in "Pucci".
      (btw, grafite is a racist nickname )

    • @truthoverlies1820
      @truthoverlies1820 Місяць тому

      What does Grafite translate as?​@@ricardopperez

    • @joaosantiago7010
      @joaosantiago7010 Місяць тому +4

      I can't say the same for the name of the club Goiás...😂😂

    • @helloiamenergyman
      @helloiamenergyman Місяць тому +2

      ​@@truthoverlies1820Graphite. Probably in reference to the color of their skin

  • @bzilla-d4i
    @bzilla-d4i Місяць тому +61

    We lost Toto Schillaci last month. R.I.P Legend 🇮🇹

  • @Sinanengin3468
    @Sinanengin3468 Місяць тому +60

    Guiza, in his third season as our third choice striker, was subbed on in buca away, the game was 3-3, guiza scored the goal that gave us the lead and went on to hug one of our disabled fans. We won the game and the league.
    He didnt met expectations in fener but we all remember and love him for that goal and that hug. Gracias matador.

    • @leonardodelacruz3859
      @leonardodelacruz3859 Місяць тому +1

      He was actually one of the strikers I respected in the time. He was a born scorer and didn't care what team he was playing against. The other striker I respect a lot who was also underrated was diego tristan

  • @GardinerAlan
    @GardinerAlan Місяць тому +62

    Woah woah woah Macheda scored against Sunderland in his next game after Villa. His prime lasted a whole week. How very dare you.

    • @GreekHouseEffect
      @GreekHouseEffect Місяць тому +2

      His prime was for Panathinaikos actually. Lit Superleague Greece in fire

  • @Erredupizer
    @Erredupizer Місяць тому +61

    Adriano, the ultimate Pro Evolution Soccer player of the PS2 era

    • @J4MIE96
      @J4MIE96 Місяць тому +1

      Any time I hear Adriano, there's always someone who treats him like a video game character

    • @samfisher2306
      @samfisher2306 Місяць тому

      I used to play with Inter back then. 4-4-2 system with Adriano and Ibra up front....scoring was too easy with that team 😅

    • @alkendjakimi8768
      @alkendjakimi8768 Місяць тому

      +zlatan, zanetti and stankovic?

  • @滋榎本
    @滋榎本 Місяць тому +29

    Prime Adriano was one of the most dominant and unstoppable players in the world at that time.
    Shame that prime didn't last longer but it's still unforgetable.

  • @John17489
    @John17489 Місяць тому +62

    Streets won’t forget Adriano and Obafemi Martins duo in PES

    • @fairphoneuser9009
      @fairphoneuser9009 Місяць тому +9

      Adriano's prime and PES' prime was approximately at the same time!

    • @YashMezzala
      @YashMezzala Місяць тому +8

      PES 6 still the greatest football game

    • @fairphoneuser9009
      @fairphoneuser9009 Місяць тому +1

      @@YashMezzala *THE* all-time classic! ❤️

    • @michaelward5370
      @michaelward5370 Місяць тому

      I just commented a little list of my own, I had Obafemi Martins on it! He looked like he was going to be an absolute superstar when he was at Internazionale!!

    • @chlcrk
      @chlcrk Місяць тому +2

      @@michaelward5370 And yet he somehow wound up at Newcastle, where he would score belters then miss sitters. Still remember a glorious goal he scored at Spurs though

  • @NKJonSnow
    @NKJonSnow Місяць тому +85

    Please do a vid on the 7 biggest teams that flopped. Teams that were expected to dominate and yet completely and utterly failed. I think of the galacticos and psg when I imagine this.

    • @livwake
      @livwake Місяць тому +13

      He did one on worst pound for pound teams recently with those teams in

    • @faeembrugh
      @faeembrugh Місяць тому +5

      Leeds in the 1970s? Won a few trophies but missed out on plenty too!

    • @Paufranne
      @Paufranne Місяць тому +4

      Atletico Madrid 2024-25. So much money spent. No better results.

    • @herrerasauro7429
      @herrerasauro7429 Місяць тому +2

      Flamengo's 94 squad, the so called "Melhor Ataque do mundo" (best attack in the world) with Romário as a Ballon D'Or winner, Edmundo and Savio springs to mind

    • @nyecrozier8663
      @nyecrozier8663 Місяць тому

      Arguably MSN era Barcelona, they were very successful domestically but only winning one Champions League with that team was a disaster

  • @mrmeeseeks2534
    @mrmeeseeks2534 Місяць тому +38

    Alfie I genuinely think you’re one of the best football channels out there and I really hope you continue to grow and make more deep,intellectual videos(p.s I would really like it if u began making history videos and social issue videos) x

    • @effkay3691
      @effkay3691 Місяць тому

      Is that actually, really how he speaks?

    • @Lucaz99
      @Lucaz99 Місяць тому

      @@effkay3691he has his own channel, you can see it there.
      If I remember correctly, yeah kinda. He talks a bit slower for these videos, you want everyone to understand you.

    • @AfifFarhati
      @AfifFarhati Місяць тому +1

      Never seen someone on youtube with as much wide and obscure knowledge on football , crazy stuff...

  • @panic_2001
    @panic_2001 Місяць тому +33

    Probably nobody here knows him: Thomas Doll played for HSV in 1990/1991, went to Lazio for a lot of money after that season; and then things went downhill…

    • @hijisfriend9030
      @hijisfriend9030 Місяць тому +9

      Nah, Indonesian knows him. Currently, He is coaching one of our big team, Persija Jakarta. He is quite a great coach so far.

    • @paultapner2769
      @paultapner2769 Місяць тому +1

      Vaguely remember his name from the early days of Serie A on British channel four, but I'd totally forgotten him till I read this and didn't know what had happened to him.

    • @AblemanSy
      @AblemanSy Місяць тому +2

      In Germany most football fans know him because of his legendary press conference as Dortmund manager when he answered a stupid question with "that's all just bla bla bla is that!" But his prime were actually his 4 years with BFC Dynamo (the most successful club in GDR) before the fall of the wall. He was actually from the east.

    • @johnnythemachine6949
      @johnnythemachine6949 Місяць тому +1

      @@AblemanSy 'N Wörns und 'n Kovac, die sind nächstes Jahr gar nicht mehr hier, die sollen aber jetzt die Kohlen aussem Feuer holen!

  • @drex5160
    @drex5160 Місяць тому +23

    PES 6 Adriano was a cheat code 🚀

    • @herrerasauro7429
      @herrerasauro7429 Місяць тому +1

      Having Adriano and Eusebio as strikers on your Master League was absolutely unfair

  • @rezarfar
    @rezarfar Місяць тому +79

    Trying to call Benzima a "one hit wonder" is beyond ridiculous 😂. Dude was legitimately a world class top 10 player for 80% of his career and at one stage, managed to get to the very top of that ranking, but in reality he was always competing on that top level.

    • @brokendoll3368
      @brokendoll3368 Місяць тому +13

      I honestly doubt that he was top 10 for even half his career unless your "top 10" includes at least 10 honorable mentions, but I agree that he was very good for way too long to even think about putting him on the list for half a second.

    • @benhoughton7009
      @benhoughton7009 Місяць тому +10

      @@brokendoll3368there’s a reason Madrid kept him for 14 seasons…

    • @rezarfar
      @rezarfar Місяць тому +1

      @@brokendoll3368 This is a take I'd expect from someonewho has never even touched a ball with their feet.

    • @rogerioceni2640
      @rogerioceni2640 Місяць тому +3

      He was a top player for longer than Rooney (who ironically would qualify for the “shortest peaks” if using the same logic as people who say that about Benzema).

    • @ninjalectualx
      @ninjalectualx Місяць тому +2

      No one called him that though

  • @Emmanuel-lp9fp
    @Emmanuel-lp9fp Місяць тому +25

    Please make a video on Ghana's downfall

  • @MattSaysHello
    @MattSaysHello Місяць тому +17

    Alfie could you please do a video on games that have saved managers jobs. EG Ten Hag being saved by the FA cup win against Coventry and the Arsenal game against Chelsea.

    • @bjehulk
      @bjehulk Місяць тому +1

      Ole’s win over PSG in the Champions League in 2020 which saved his job too

  • @welshfinn1
    @welshfinn1 Місяць тому +1

    You are the most erudite, informed and insightful football journalist that I have come across - this is another excellent video in a collection of excellent football videos. I really hope you find the recognition that such determined work deserves

  • @itspaintosee
    @itspaintosee Місяць тому +4

    Albert Reira was amazing for Liverpool for that one year he was there. His stats might not have been amazing but he was a key part of Benetiz' team that year

  • @KaijuofSteel
    @KaijuofSteel Місяць тому +21

    That original tweet calling Benzema a “one hit wonder" is so out of touch
    You just don't casually become Real Madrid's 2nd and Champions League's 4th all time goalscorer

    • @joejo4549
      @joejo4549 Місяць тому +1

      It's deliberate to bait a response

  • @ChrisMeerkat
    @ChrisMeerkat Місяць тому +32

    Unprecedented longevity? Stanley Matthews, Teddy Sheringham not to mention all the goalies that played into their 40s.

    • @HITCSevens
      @HITCSevens  Місяць тому +45

      An unprecedented era of longevity, not unprecedented isolated examples.

    • @danielkarmy4893
      @danielkarmy4893 Місяць тому +1

      Hey Chris! I've gradually been compiling a record through the last seven or so years of all players (professional at club level, regardless of the level at which they ended their careers, and inclusive of amateurs at international level but international only) who have been known to have played beyond the age of 40. I have 1,203 entries thus far, the majority of which concern players who were active during the 2000s, 2010s and 2020s; as of course I'm sure you'll know, there is John Goodall, the doyen of the early years of league football, who played until 1913 aged 50, and the great Arthur, Lord Kinnaird, who retired in 1890 aged 43, then Ned Doig the legendary goalkeeper who hung up the gloves in 1908, at 42. Between the 1910s and the 1980s, just looking through now, I find an average of perhaps 30 to 40 entries per decade, then 78 for the 1990s, 256 for the 2000s, 618 for the 2010s, and 368 for the 2020s so far. Note that we are not yet halfway through the current decade. :)

    • @ChrisMeerkat
      @ChrisMeerkat Місяць тому

      @@danielkarmy4893 Great research, hats off! Goalies tend to last longer so it would be interesting to know how many of those veterans were outfield players. ,👍

  • @bababababababa6124
    @bababababababa6124 Місяць тому +57

    This now has me wondering which players have had the LONGEST primes?

    • @SilliusSodus
      @SilliusSodus Місяць тому +34

      Neuer, Modric, Thiago Silva, Buffon and many more. #1 might be Stanley Matthews tho.

    • @danielkarmy4893
      @danielkarmy4893 Місяць тому +11

      @@SilliusSodus I'll add Vitorino Hilton to the list - still starting games, week in, week out, in League 1 for Montpellier, as an outfield player, when he was 43! I was actually genuinely surprised when he announced his retirement...

    • @junthergauch3089
      @junthergauch3089 Місяць тому +18

      Kroos the first one who comes to mind for me

    • @ReadytoDiveIn
      @ReadytoDiveIn Місяць тому +9

      Thomas Müller has been the greatest attacking midfielder in history. And still is.

    • @barca.fan_11
      @barca.fan_11 Місяць тому +9

      Kroos is that guy because if I asked y'all "when was Prime Kroos ?" I'd get as many different answers.

  • @justhuy7960
    @justhuy7960 Місяць тому +5

    Seeing Michu and Papiss Cisse in this video gave me strong nolstagia, that was the time I was in middle school and followed EPL every week, even came to class and discussed football with lads, can't believe it was already 12 years ago.

  • @tomhoey9008
    @tomhoey9008 Місяць тому +24

    7 worst owners of EFL clubs since 2000

    • @chlcrk
      @chlcrk Місяць тому +4

      Shall we have a look at the 75+ contenders?

    • @gurururuwarararara8164
      @gurururuwarararara8164 Місяць тому +1

      Hicks & Gillett, Glazers, Kjell Inge Røkke, Vincent Tan, Farhard Mousiri (spelling might be wrong), Mike Ashley, Todd Bohely

  • @Hyde_Hill
    @Hyde_Hill Місяць тому +1

    Vincent Janssen. He was insane that half season at AZ that got him the Tottenham transfer. Then went downhill and recovered a bit later.

  • @ifan_1234
    @ifan_1234 Місяць тому +11

    on Thursday the champions of the Welsh premier league won 2-0 against Astana in the Europa conference. please make a video diving into the Cymru premier's history, the reason behind 4 of Wales' best clubs playing in England, and where the league could go from here 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🙏

    • @gwheregwhizz
      @gwheregwhizz Місяць тому +3

      Imagine the joy this season watching Merthyr Town beating the English every week in Southern South and the fans not having to drive at 20 MPH to get to away games. Better than Tom Jones singing Delilah.

  • @ThePB77
    @ThePB77 Місяць тому +22

    Michu better be on this list

    • @leobuscaglia5576
      @leobuscaglia5576 Місяць тому +2

      He is and is on the top of the list. 😄

    • @ThePB77
      @ThePB77 Місяць тому +1

      @leobuscaglia5576 it really was that obvious wasn't it 🤣🤣

  • @HeracrossTheGreek
    @HeracrossTheGreek Місяць тому +5

    It makes sense that this video is full of strikers since they are easier to evaluate. A non-striker inclusion could be Victor Moses. He was world class as RWB in 2016-17 under Antonio Conte in Chelsea, but average in every other club or season.

  • @phoenixj1985
    @phoenixj1985 Місяць тому +12

    A brief moment of purple form that is never recaptured shall now forever be known as 'Chico Time'

  • @HonestWatchReviewsHWR
    @HonestWatchReviewsHWR Місяць тому +4

    That Cisse goal against Chelsea is still one of the best I've ever seen in the Prem.

  • @bzilla-d4i
    @bzilla-d4i Місяць тому +4

    The driving force in that 07/08 Wolfsburg squad was the incredible Marcelinho Paraiba, probably the most underrated Brazilian playmaker of all time.

    • @johnnythemachine6949
      @johnnythemachine6949 Місяць тому +1

      Yes but he left the season before Wolfsburg won the Bundesliga. He was replaced by the Bosnian playmaker Zvjezdan Misimovic, who also had an excellent season with 38 G/A in all competitions

  • @alexrn416
    @alexrn416 Місяць тому +2

    We live in an era of unprecedented longevity in football video intros arent we Alfie?

  • @classicbananamilk
    @classicbananamilk Місяць тому +4

    man that wolfsburg season as a whole was lightning in a bottle, unbelievable

  • @bzilla-d4i
    @bzilla-d4i Місяць тому +5

    If you're talking about long primes, look no further than Paolo Maldini, Cafu and Alessandro Costacurta, the 3 of them were winning the Champions League at the ages of 39, 37 and 41. With a 34 year old Inzaghi and Ronaldo also being part of that Milan squad in 2007.

    • @ymca4547
      @ymca4547 Місяць тому +4

      Interestingly, Ronaldo does not have a CL winners medal. Was cup-tied.

    • @ezraezra2928
      @ezraezra2928 Місяць тому

      @@ymca4547 He played for Real Madrid during the first half of the season.

  • @willcomrie2853
    @willcomrie2853 Місяць тому +7

    Adriano had an absolute hammer of a left foot.

  • @kobiowujubriladedeji4803
    @kobiowujubriladedeji4803 Місяць тому +7

    An Updated Top 100 greatest players of all time will be nice.
    A lot has happened in football in 6 years

  • @10minutesfacts66
    @10minutesfacts66 Місяць тому +4

    Darko Pancev could have been included. Second best player in the world ( a lot of them say he was n.1 ) Golden boot and top goalscorer at the time when he joined Inter.

    • @SKa-tt9nm
      @SKa-tt9nm Місяць тому

      That’s a fair shout. He had 3 great years at zvezda and was never the same after the butcher defenders of 90s serie A were done with his knees. A shame. He was a great talent. Should have gone to Barca and partnered up with Stoichkov.

  • @tomnolan5574
    @tomnolan5574 Місяць тому +2

    A very enjoyable video as always, but I don't know how Schillaci is not the top of this list. His prime was only for one season, and he reached his absolute peak during a few short weeks when he became the most iconic star of arguably the most iconic football tournament of all time. When he sadly died last month, even people with a passing interest in football seemed to remember the name. Few players with primes that went on for years would have been as well remembered.

    • @SKa-tt9nm
      @SKa-tt9nm Місяць тому

      Excellent point.

  • @RyuzakiTaiyou
    @RyuzakiTaiyou Місяць тому +33

    Best German players in the premier league of all time. (Day 690)
    Alternativly you could do "Best German players who played outside the Bundesliga" or something like that if you prefer.
    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.

    • @beno1129
      @beno1129 Місяць тому +3

      I genuinely admire your perseverance.

    • @gurururuwarararara8164
      @gurururuwarararara8164 Місяць тому +4

      ​@beno1129 Same. At this point I just feel like Alfie won't make the video until his day count reaches 1000. If it gets to 1000, and Alfie STILL won't make this video, Imma get rid of this subscription 💔

    • @beno1129
      @beno1129 Місяць тому +3

      ​@@gurururuwarararara8164 Yeah I agree that Alfie should at the very least respond to the request and confirm whether he'll be doing it or not.

    • @gofannon1943
      @gofannon1943 Місяць тому +2

      I’d skip it because I loathe Klinsmann more than any other player or manager in history. USMNT is still recovering from his hellishly poor and selfish leadership.

    • @gurururuwarararara8164
      @gurururuwarararara8164 Місяць тому +1

      @beno1129 100%. At this point, I'm beginning to think Alfie is somewhat diabolical

  • @michaelay4900
    @michaelay4900 Місяць тому +7

    Video suggestion Day 9: 7 pairs of footballers that fit the "regen" idea the best (one retired, one rise up with similar background in position, nationality, ability etc)

    • @silviofelix1991
      @silviofelix1991 Місяць тому

      He did a video whose idea is very similar to that. I don't remember the title but has Donnarumma on the image.

    • @ninjalectualx
      @ninjalectualx Місяць тому +1

      Players everyone thought were irreplaceable but weren't

  • @WilliamJMartinj
    @WilliamJMartinj Місяць тому +10

    You should include Mario Götze too. He flourished during 2012-2013 season with Borussia Dortmund.
    Then Bayern Munich bought him the next season and he performed well and score against his former club. Then he won the World Cup with Germany and score during the Final game vs Argentina and was named Man of the match! But eventually he flopped since then and never make a big impact!

    • @williamcross210
      @williamcross210 Місяць тому +5

      Götze didn't so much flop as he fell victim to myopathy which caused some of his muscles to not function properly

    • @AblemanSy
      @AblemanSy Місяць тому

      He was already absolutely stunning in the 10/11 campaign at age 18 when they won the Bundesliga. He never really played great for Bayern.

    • @johnnythemachine6949
      @johnnythemachine6949 Місяць тому

      Götze never reached his potential but he also never fell that deep like many others in that list. I mean he's still a regular for one of the better teams in the Bundesliga right now (Frankfurt) an recently made his 300th Bundesliga appearance and scored in the same game

  • @AndrewBrown-fq6vp
    @AndrewBrown-fq6vp Місяць тому +3

    Even with Messi playing in the MLS, Christian Benteke was top scorer this year for DC United!

  • @georgechappell2169
    @georgechappell2169 Місяць тому +1

    For me as Leeds fan, I questioned if Bamford was even good enough for the top of the Championship, then becoming one of the best strikers in the Prem and then back to playing like he had cinder blocks for boots all 18 months.

  • @WrestlingWithMyself
    @WrestlingWithMyself Місяць тому +5

    Honestly I think Ronaldinho should be here, 2004 to the end of the 05/06 season and that's it, from the world cup onwards he was a shadow of himself

    • @Fmfcg
      @Fmfcg Місяць тому +4

      Prime neymar > prime ronaldinho

    • @SKa-tt9nm
      @SKa-tt9nm Місяць тому +1

      @@Fmfcg😂😂😂

  • @John17489
    @John17489 Місяць тому +13

    Adriano a harsh inclusion as his downfall was caused by his father’s death, affecting his mental health and in turn his decline

    • @AblemanSy
      @AblemanSy Місяць тому +3

      Doesn't change the fact that his prime was short.

  • @michaelward5370
    @michaelward5370 Місяць тому +6

    Few more:
    Eyal Berkowitz (West Ham)
    Janiszlai (Man Utd)
    Renato Sanches (Rennes)
    Obafemi Martins (Internazionale)
    Andy Carroll (Newcastle United)
    Paulo Wanchope (Derby County)

    • @justhuy7960
      @justhuy7960 Місяць тому +2

      did you mean Januzaj ?

    • @michaelward5370
      @michaelward5370 Місяць тому

      @@justhuy7960, yeah, that's the one!

    • @Bartleby1892
      @Bartleby1892 Місяць тому +1

      Wanchope is a legend and record scorer for Costa Rica, so he doesn't belong here. Sanches is tricky, I thought his prime was at Benfica.

    • @justhuy7960
      @justhuy7960 Місяць тому +2

      @@michaelward5370 as an Man United fan I think Januzaj had some great moments when he played for Sociedad but definately only played ok when he was at Man United.

    • @williamcross210
      @williamcross210 Місяць тому +2

      Renato Sanchez was huge in leading Lille to the Ligue Un title a few years ago

  • @seandelap8587
    @seandelap8587 Місяць тому +1

    I can remember when Frederico Macheda scored 2 vital late goals for Man Utd against Aston Villa to win the game 3-2 during the title run during the 2008/09 season thinking that he was going to become a vital member of the team but that was basically the entire highlight of his career those 10 minutes he just seemed to have faded into complete obscurity after that dramatic moment

  • @vman99
    @vman99 Місяць тому +1

    Cisse’s goal vs Chelsea still shocks me all these years later. Idk how you hit a football like that.

  • @bigmusiksosa7591
    @bigmusiksosa7591 Місяць тому +3

    Krzysztof Piątek... Streets wont never forget...

  • @rohithraman6488
    @rohithraman6488 Місяць тому +1

    Papiss Cisse and Nikica Jelavic were two similar players in 2012. Both arrived in England during the January transfer window (Cisse to Newcastle, Jelavic to Everton) both were in red hot form for the next few months and you could say both of them never hit those heights after that

  • @mr.e.8292
    @mr.e.8292 Місяць тому +2

    Pavel Pogrebnyak could have been at least a funny shout. Fastest player to score his first five goals in the Premier League only to then only score another 6 over the entirety of a calendar year and a bit

  • @JaffaJannu
    @JaffaJannu Місяць тому +3

    Spain actually has 5 exclaves in Morocco. 3 of them are military base and some rocky islands.

  • @lucastarg
    @lucastarg Місяць тому +4

    Your pronunciation of Grafite is correct, specially for the southeastern region of Brazil (states like São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro)! However, GrafiTE, stressing the last syllable, is also correct and the way it would be pronounced in the south. The northeastern region of the country would be a mix of both.
    source: am Brazilian, born and raised in the northeast.

  • @leonanthony683
    @leonanthony683 Місяць тому +1

    The people we need to get rid of in football is the the people saying "he's the next Messi", rooney, Ronaldo etc they're the real issue because it is beyond unfair to put that kind of pressure on young players that have barely made it out of their teens. And no one knows the damn future.

  • @ChubbyChecker182
    @ChubbyChecker182 Місяць тому

    That Grafite Goal is amazing, and the English Commnmentator too, thanks Alfie

  • @sydwellmyataza
    @sydwellmyataza Місяць тому +5

    Would for you to a video on my country South Africa 🇿🇦 on the state of our football

  • @Omar_Little
    @Omar_Little Місяць тому +4

    Adriano was game-breaking on FM05

  • @Brascofarian
    @Brascofarian 21 день тому

    Michael Ricketts. Played for Bolton Wonderers, had a prolific first half season in the PL, got an England call up, didn't score for England or Bolton for the rest of the season.

  • @HappyCodingZX
    @HappyCodingZX Місяць тому +1

    Tony Yeboah's second season at Leeds was mental, he seemed to get nominated for goal of the month every time it came around.

    • @AblemanSy
      @AblemanSy Місяць тому

      But he was outstanding for Frankfurt before that.

    • @HappyCodingZX
      @HappyCodingZX Місяць тому

      @@AblemanSy yes, but I wouldn't have called him one of the best strikers in the world at that time, just one of the best in the Bundesliga. In that one season at Leeds he was truly world class.

  • @chlcrk
    @chlcrk Місяць тому +1

    I was tempted to say "Cisse? Really?" but... yeah. His first half season at Newcastle got us inches away from the Champions League, only for him to spend most of the following 4 seasons with us struggling to stay onside

  • @Chris-ni4mk
    @Chris-ni4mk Місяць тому

    It’s a classic story, really: boy meets club, boy wins a bucket load of trophies, and boy... realizes he’s won so many that lifting yet another trophy might strain his wrists. Such was the predicament of Real Madrid’s own Enrique “Papín” Pachín, the man who made an art form out of quietly exiting stage left before victory could slap him on the back yet again.
    For years, Pachín dutifully donned the all-white kit of the Spanish giants, running circles around the opposition like a butterfly ("Papillon" if you’re feeling fancy) flitting gracefully from one defensive position to another. But it seems that, after a while, Pachín grew... weary of success. I mean, how many times can one man hoist La Liga trophies without feeling just a little fatigued? Some speculate he had a running bet with a teammate on how fast he could retire, while others say he had a philosophical crisis: what’s the point of winning when you’ve won everything there is to win, twice?
    Of course, there were rumors. That a shadowy cabal of “youthful legs” was out to get him, for example, creeping up in the form of younger, faster, and slightly shinier players. Some claim he was replaced by a newer model with extra stamina and a free year’s supply of liniment balm. Others suggest he was haunted by visions of Real Madrid’s lineup evolving into a legion of single-role specialists, rendering his all-in-one style as outdated as last season’s mullet. Poor Pachín, realizing he might be relegated to the bench, made a noble sacrifice: he voluntarily stepped aside. Let the newbies have the spotlight. (Besides, all that cheering was awfully loud for someone who’d prefer a quiet stroll to the tune of “What happened to Papillon?”)
    Then again, maybe the truth is simpler: maybe he just fancied a break. After all, can you imagine the exhaustion of winning practically everything and then being asked to do it all again, day after day? And for what? More silverware? No, for the man who once fluttered across the pitch like a butterfly, the only true victory was in the art of knowing when to fly away.
    So here’s to Pachín, the gentleman who gracefully bowed out of Madrid’s limelight with the speed of a man who’d seen enough goals, trophies, and young upstarts to last a lifetime.

  • @krismac7695
    @krismac7695 Місяць тому

    That Chico reference was a real blast of nostalgia, plucked from absolutely bloody nowhere.

  • @ThomasMai-m3m
    @ThomasMai-m3m Місяць тому

    Did you consider Sean Dundee ??? Within one calendar year he scored 33 goals for middle class team Karlsruhe in the Bundesliga. LFC signed him, but he got injured right away, missed the whole season, moved back to German and never reached that level again...
    Fun fact: he got the German citizenship in a speedy process which led to a massive discussion, but eventually never played a single match for Germany.

  • @SYKim_94
    @SYKim_94 Місяць тому

    Now we need a video of 7 players who started “late” but became great

  • @rohithraman6488
    @rohithraman6488 Місяць тому

    Video suggestion - 7 Best "Streets Will Never Forget" Premier League Teams (eg. Southampton 2014-15, Middlesbrough 2003-04, Newcastle 2011-12)

  • @frankscomiccastle4928
    @frankscomiccastle4928 Місяць тому +6

    How about Marco Negri for that one season in Rangers ?

    • @LienLeon
      @LienLeon Місяць тому

      I was going to suggest Negri! Now that was a drop off.

    • @CallumWatson-p2l
      @CallumWatson-p2l Місяць тому

      Jelavic too

  • @deborahluck539
    @deborahluck539 Місяць тому

    ❤ALFIE! Good morning and hopefully all is well……Here in Las Vegas enjoying your info! Once again I am surely becoming a football nerd!!!!!
    Keep up the great job ❤❤❤

  • @Trargent_08
    @Trargent_08 Місяць тому +9

    Reminds me of Taibi ( Man Utd Goalkeeper ) he peakes for like ... 1 match.

  • @hisham_hm
    @hisham_hm Місяць тому

    Brazilian here: yes, Alfie's pronunciation of "Grafite" is correct.
    Brazil is huge and has multiple accents, though, so pronouncing it as if it was Spanish (arguably easier for foreigners) would also be a common pronounciation in places such as Curitiba in southern Brazil.

  • @motion1picture809
    @motion1picture809 Місяць тому +4

    The first player to come to mind to me was Piatek. Me and everyone who supported poland in the 2018/19 in his season at Genoa thought we have another Lewandowski. Then the move to AC Milan where he had a good start. In that season he was a goal scoring machine so good he became the move expensive polish player of all time (at the time) in his move from Genoa to AC Milan. Then the next season he only had 4 goals, then a bad spell at Hertha. Now he is back to scoring but in Turkey but like you said not the highest level. Probably didn't reach as hight of a level as many on the list but for that season he gave all of Poland hope.

    • @maciejbala477
      @maciejbala477 Місяць тому +2

      I think a lot of what happened with Piątek wasn't necessarily his own fault. All of AC Milan was struggling at the time, until Maldini changed things, sacked the coach, and also decided to bring in Ibrahimović as one of their first moves to try to fix the situation, so obviously it meant that Piątek had to be shipped out. But then he went to Hertha, as Jurgen Klinsmann, head coach at the time, convinced him, but then Klinsmann was gone almost immediately and Hertha are a basket case so they had like 5 different center forwards and didn't have a clue what they're actually doing, so they didn't even start him a lot of the time even though they paid big money for him. For me Piątek is someone who you need to fit in right into the team and let him just be a pure goalscorer kind of center forward like Genoa did, but later Milan and Hertha weren't doing it

  • @louiswigston748
    @louiswigston748 Місяць тому

    I was in the away end when cisse scored that brace. The second is still the best goal I’ve ever seen live. Unbelievable.

  • @King_Goat_JJ
    @King_Goat_JJ Місяць тому

    That Newcastle team with Cisse, Ba & Ben Arfa is peak Barclays football & streets will never forget

  • @TiagoFerreira-zp9gi
    @TiagoFerreira-zp9gi Місяць тому +2

    What are you even talking about Mário Jardel prime? The dude was top scorer for 3 different teams...

  • @BugleCoops
    @BugleCoops Місяць тому

    Geoff Thomas MBE, good career in an age of largely average English footballers (and Graham Taylor) and always seemed a genuinely decent guy but nine caps in a year culminating in THAT miss against France was definitely his prime... He was never quite the same after that game.
    And yes, I'm a Palace fan.

  • @MCKevin289
    @MCKevin289 Місяць тому +2

    My girlfriend is Brazilian and she says your pronunciation of grafite was good for a gringo.

  • @lokmansahat6220
    @lokmansahat6220 Місяць тому +2

    Please make a video on the rise and fall on Malaysia football especially Malaysian national football team.

  • @victormartins1191
    @victormartins1191 Місяць тому

    Alfie is right about Grafite, at least the southeastern part of Brazil - where he is from - pronounces his name “Grafić”. As you go north and west, it starts to be replaced but “Grafiti” - like the street painting, but with a short T.
    He is now a commentator on TV and his peers usually call him, affectionately, “Grafa”

  • @AblemanSy
    @AblemanSy Місяць тому +1

    About that Grafite-goal: Yeah, one of them was Philipp Lahm, but the others were Andreas Ottl, Christian Lell and Breno. And the goalkeeper was Michael Rensing. Not that great! The goal is still absolutely stunning and one of the funniest moments I have seen (as I hate Bayern with a passion).

  • @rhysdavid19
    @rhysdavid19 14 днів тому

    As a swansea fan, thinking of the michu days nearly brings a tear to my eye

  • @pavlikmorozovgaming468
    @pavlikmorozovgaming468 Місяць тому +3

    Naah calling the early 2010s PL "the best league in the world" is criminal

  • @C-Valentine97
    @C-Valentine97 Місяць тому

    Great video!

  • @danielkarmy4893
    @danielkarmy4893 Місяць тому +3

    'With respect to those four' - well, three. Ravel Morrison by no means deserves respect in any form...

  • @tudorandrei1998
    @tudorandrei1998 Місяць тому +1

    Honorable mentions:
    Krzysztof Piątek
    Andrea Belotti
    Paco Alcacer
    Wout Weghorst
    Anderson
    Renato Sanches

  • @benjamineckford1718
    @benjamineckford1718 Місяць тому

    Michu in 2012-13 was amazing, loved watching him

  • @pascalheadley1495
    @pascalheadley1495 Місяць тому

    Could've had Lys Mousset's 3 month Premier League purple patch for Sheffield United in 2019.
    Signed for £10 million and was initially red hot, scoring 6 times by November. His decline from there was something to behold. Didn't score again for the Blades then went on loan to Salernitana before signing for VfL Bochum then out on loan again to Nimes in the French 3rd division, before having his contract terminated. Ooof.

  • @theshaman8672
    @theshaman8672 Місяць тому

    Brazilian here. You >almost< got Grafite's name eight. Only thing wrong is the stress syllable: You pronounced it like "GRA-feetch", but it is "Gra-FEEHTCH"

  • @TheBanditSlick
    @TheBanditSlick Місяць тому +3

    Should have asked Endrick about Papiyo, I'm sure he would have had something for you.

    • @ninjalectualx
      @ninjalectualx Місяць тому

      Haha last month's joke, what a callback

  • @hqcf
    @hqcf Місяць тому

    I remember Chico, but for those who have no idea who he is, you should have also mentioned he had an actual song called "Chico Time," hence the reason for the reference!

  • @GinkgoPete
    @GinkgoPete Місяць тому

    Losing your father and then when you finally get back on the horse getting injured sounds so fucking draining man...

  • @GeeQiu
    @GeeQiu Місяць тому

    I would include some of Leverkusen's 2002 squad with diego placente and yildirai basturk in the main roles. Also, most of what leaves monaco in recent years seems to go downhill: Anthony Martial, Tiemouye Bakayoko, Benjamin mendy, etc.

  • @WillKinna
    @WillKinna Місяць тому +1

    video idea: 7 best non european or south american players of the modern era

  • @beejj6190
    @beejj6190 Місяць тому +1

    I wish people would differentiate between footballing and physical prime. i.e. You have players who get their best results - while not in what is seen as their physical prime. Or those getting their best results while younger than their physical prime. I say it's more accurate to describe their *most productive footballing period* ... and then see how / if that dovetailed with their [generally perceived] *physical prime* ....

  • @meelooxavier6502
    @meelooxavier6502 Місяць тому

    11:43 I definitely remember "Salvatore della patria". Italia '90 was the first World Cup I followed as a kid

  • @wisnuzaene
    @wisnuzaene Місяць тому

    whoa HITC becoming prime Endrick mentioning Pepillo out of all people

  • @andresguerrero5586
    @andresguerrero5586 Місяць тому

    Love how you nailed “grafite”; next one should be “pichichi.” In Spanish “ch-“ it’s pronounced differently. Thank you for what you do.

  • @ThePedrovv
    @ThePedrovv Місяць тому

    Grafite pronunciation spot-on mate 👌