Players that were class when young but got crap as they got older?


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Patrick Roberts: Champions League at 18, League One play-offs at 25.
Alex Pritchard: scoring goals against Inter Milan and Barcelona at 18 and against Shrewsbury and Morcambe at 29.
 
Almost everyone who scored while under 20 for Man Utd
That lad who scored against us in the Semi Final
mascarana or whatever he was called
The alien looking lad who went on to the mags
Both them little Brazilian lads who played left and right back for Man Utd
The lad who played or at least wore the strip during the relegation season.

There was about 10 years of Man Utd unearthing these gems that went onto mid level careers at best
 
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Connor Wickham (10m as a 17 year old, a League 1 substitute at 28), Giovanni Dos Santos, Freddie Adu, Antony Van Den Borre, Ricardo Quaresma (to an extent, he should have been absolutely brilliant), Javier Saviola, Alexandre Pato.

Championship Manager / Football Manager player?
 
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Marangoni was actually a good footballer. You could see what he wanted to do when he got on the ball but his train of thought was 2 or 3 moves ahead of his team mates. We weren't good enough for hin not the other way around.
Totally true. Just not suited to second division football and the English winter. Went back to Argentina and won all kinds with independiente and was capped by Argentina.
 
Marangoni was actually a good footballer. You could see what he wanted to do when he got on the ball but his train of thought was 2 or 3 moves ahead of his team mates. We weren't good enough for hin not the other way around.
My thoughts also. I suppose when you put a top (at the time) Argentinian international in team of journeymen the outcome was predictable.
 
Connor Wickham (10m as a 17 year old, a League 1 substitute at 28), Giovanni Dos Santos, Freddie Adu, Antony Van Den Borre, Ricardo Quaresma (to an extent, he should have been absolutely brilliant), Javier Saviola, Alexandre Pato.
You've just gone through Champ Manager wonderkids list from the early 2000s there!
 
Saudi Berahino - linked with a £20M move to Spurs at 23, 4 goals in 22 games aged 26 in the Belgian league followed by a free transfer to League One Sheffield Wednesday at 27.

Garry Kenneth - Scottish Cup winner with Dundee United, full Scotland caps and rejected offers from Championship clubs aged 23; Playing for Carnoustie Panmure in the 6th tier of Scottish football at 27.
 
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I vaguely recall a young italian lad at Man U bursting on the scene with a few goals then seems to have been abducted by aliens. I’m unsure but wasn’t there a film called fire in the sky made about him.
 
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