Forgotten Great Footballers

[Walken]

Lentini was unreal. Had a massive car crash in his early 20s and he was obviously never the same after that, awful stuff.

Him and Marco Simone are two of my favourites

Goals from the halfway line with him on sensible soccer

 

[Walken]

What a shout, legit the best in the world for a period

 

[Walken]

Mate....they're is absolutely zero romance anymore.

Too much money involved for it to be as much fun anymore, pro athletes are developed now not discovered.

 

[Walken]

Even at Ipswich you could see the class to beat his man nearly every time

 

[Simon Buttle]

What a shout, legit the best in the world for a period

Yeah he was such a good player although he never gets mentioned very much in discussions on the subject.

 

[Exeter_Gently]

Too much money involved for it to be as much fun anymore, pro athletes are developed now not discovered.

Quite

 

[heatmeiser]

Gianluigi Lentini: The rise and fall of the world's most expensive player

A spectacular untamed talent, Gianluigi Lentini became the most expensive player in the world in 1992. But lust, luck and a determination to live life to his own rules derailed his top-level career.

www.bbc.co.uk

Brilliant piece on him...Classics rags to riches story.

Great read.

"When Cosenza were demoted to Serie D for financial irregularities in 2004, Lentini stayed on. He did so because they asked him to - and because they were nice people."

Enjoyed that part

 

[Neiler]

Carlos Valderrama.

 

[Runub]

Stefan Kuntz

 

[Billy Dean]

Huddle was around then as well. Maybe towards the end of his career in 1990.

Taylor then dropped Beardsley and Waddle and played Carlton Palmer and Andy Sinton.

Christ, yeah Waddle and Beardsley were absolutely killing it during Taylor's reign weren't they. He was picking Nigel Clough too at that time

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Christ, yeah Waddle and Beardsley were absolutely killing it during Taylor's reign weren't they. He was picking Nigel Clough too at that time

They were aye. Totally wasted. Venables brought Beardsley straight back in when he took charge.

Taylor picked Geoff Thomas as well I think. What a mess

 

[Billy Dean]

Italy throughout the 90s had the likes of:

GK: Zenga, Pagliuca, Toldo, Buffon
DEF: Maldini, Costacurta, Bergomi, Baresi, Tassotti, Cannavaro, Nesta
MID: Albertini, Donadoni, Ancelotti, Giannini, Conte, D. Baggio
FWD: Baggio, Signori, Vialli, Mancini, Vieri, Del Piero, Zola, Massaro, Inzaghi, Ravanelli

Pretty mad that they never managed to win anything in that time

 

[NathDogg]

Yeah he was such a good player although he never gets mentioned very much in discussions on the subject.

Unreal for a time this fella, loved watching him play - we used to be arguing who was schifo on the playground.

 

[Billy Dean]

Stoitchkov
Michael Laudraup
Pavel Nedved.

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Magic

 

[Nymzee]

Recoba