7 World Class Footballers Who Were TERRIBLE At One Club 

Suggestion: a top 7 list with no introduction, we have to figure out what the topic of the list is.

Fulham managing to sign Van Der Sar was an absolute coup but I hadn't realised his time at Juve was so poor. He was easily one of my favourite goalkeepers during the '90s and 2000s.

Inter Milan manager...ROY HODGSON????? WHAT!?! Just the mental image of big Woy giving pep talks in broken Italian absolutely sends me

Here's a good idea for a video, that kinda came from this: "world class" players that went to lesser leagues and got embarrassed. You even mentioned a few of the possible candidates in the video. You could do also a sort of up/down video, where after every humiliation comes a player who left Europe for the big check, then owned that league, decided to go back to Europe and went right back to being a world-class player again.

Vidić? He is considered to be one of the worst CBs to have ever worn the Inter shirt.

(00:55) Holy shit - I'd forgotten how powerfully built Roberto Carlos was....

"I will be setting the bar for terrible very low" "Dennis Bergkamp won the uefa cup in his first season at inter scoring 8 in 11 games"

We all know the one truly consistent standard for "World Class" is a CA of 170 or more on FM.

Another thing that happened with Adelaide the season that Romario played was that although they made the A-League Grand Final that season, they ended up losing 6-0 where Archie Thompson (the same Archie Thompson that scored 13 goals against American Samoa) scored 5 goals in it.

Not a world class player yet maybe but I think Patrick Schick fits perfectly in this category. He’s been amazing at every club he’s been at (Czech national team too) except As Roma.

I don't think anyone who saw Roberto Carlos at Inter in the 1990s would say he was terrible. At times he looked quite brilliant. The only question I remember at the time was whether he was better than Javier Zanetti, whom Inter signed at the same time. There was was talk about how one of the club's signings that season was struggling - but it was Paul Ince, and never Roberto Carlos.

02:57 Impressive pronunciation of Michelangelo

Day 19 - The Fall and Rise of FK Velež Mostar From a Club that has beaten Borussia Dortmund, Twente, Derby County and many others to a club that was forced from their own stadium, reduced to nothing during the Bosnian War, becoming a mediocre top-level team in the 00s to nearly being forced into folding in 2016 to its amazing rise back to the top-level football which culminated in return to Europe after 33 years and recent cup win

Riquelme was one of the best players I've ever seen in the flesh. Was outstanding at Ibrox against us in the champions league.

"Romario is undoubtedly the best player to ever play in the A-League" C'mon, Alfie, why you gotta do Lord Heskey like that?

Alfie how have you low key created the best football channel on RU-vid? It's kinda just happened over time. Kudos.

Best German players in the premier league of all time. (Day 342) 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.

in Cruyff's autobiography he says that free thought and stubbornness are traits very common in the dutch, which led to all sorts of friction in and outside of the netherlands with coaches and board members

These videos are absolute gold!

I saw Rio in a live game for QPR where he was magnificent, blotting out any attack that came near. His pace was shot, but he made up for it with positioning. But his fellow defenders were rubbish, and to be totally fair, Rio could have been a bit better at communication with his defence in that game, but otherwise, it was masterly. So, maybe it was Rio not fitting in with his supporting cast and a touch of Anno Domini, rather than being truly terrible, perhaps?

Looking forward to your documentary about the rise of Bodø/Glimt :)

Mishelangelo, genius behind the Cistern Shapel.

Alfie, Crespo wasn't terrible at Chelsea. His record wasn't bad, he just didn't settle in London x

Alfie: " here's another video I worked really hard on" Comments section " whatever, do a video on some obscure Bulgarian team from the 80s"

Video suggestion 7 best players who where late bloomers / 7 club legends that arrived for bargain transfer fees

Fun fact #2:Edwin van der Sar holds the record for the most minutes without conceding a goal(1311).

Your analogies are gold!

awesome video again lad! Would you manage to do a video similar to this but in the reverse - like Luka Modric being voted worst la Liga signing when he joined to winning the Ballon'dor

7 player who were bought for squad depth, but ended up to be key players

Love the introduction 😎 a true work of art

Rumour has it Juan Roman Riquelme didn't run a single yard in his career, he just wondered around the middle of the pitch & everyone gave him the ball because he made magic happen. Not only idolised in Argentina, he is often named as many Brazilian fans favourite player with many naming their newborns after him.

a documentary on the afc Wimbledon on the nine promotions in eleven years, how they’re a fan own club and how they have a stadium in plough lane now. The story of they lost the club, how the F A allowed that and won’t allow that anymore. How they were very close to moving to ireland How they went up the English football leagues. It would be a good documentary video if you can do this. #thepeopleschannel

Every time I see those Dreamcast branded kits, I get a wonderful chuckle

The great Leo Gamalho! I love him, he is a beast playing for smaller clubs and in the serie B in brasil.

A video on every team that's competed in the Premier League era and their highest finish would be pretty interesting Wimbledon finished 5th and QPR got in the top 6

Alfie you’re a legend. I love your videos!

You can always count on Roy Hougson to waste attacking talent as he did with England

Schweinsteiger is a bad example. He was way past his prime already when he arrived in Manchester. He sacrificed his fitness for the 2014 World Cup. He was injured but played all matches of the tournament of which two went for 120 Minutes. After the World Cup Basti wasnt the same anymore, he dropped off alot. Thats why Bayern gave him away. In Manchester they were dumb to put much expectations in him. Everybody in Germany knew that he was finished.

Day 494: Ways to fix VAR with your suggestions

What I really learned in this video is that Roy hodgson managed inter Milan, how in the fuck did he blag that job?

Certainly not world class, but Patrik Berger at Liverpool and even Patrik Berger at Portsmouth, compared to his time at Villa was really something. He looked like he'd never seen a football sometimes. Was unfit, but refused to play for the reserves to get fitness. Was loaned to the Championship in his first season. And then went to the press and publicly encouraged Gareth Barry to leave Villa that summer leading to his contract being terminated.

A video about the success story of Port Vale since Carol Shanahan took over, considering we just won the playoff final.Her charity work, bringing in Darrell Clark, then the things he went through this season. Plus we were on a winning streak and 1 point off the playoffs and she voted to end the first covid season early.....

Mario Jardel had a shocking stint in the A-League with Newcastle Jets.

Has there been a video of what a present day East Germany squad would look like?

Am from 🇯🇲 and I love your contents keep up the good work

Great vid e

Shevchenko at Chelsea should be on this list, possibly the worst case of Chelsea's striker curse

Take the oldest goalscorer of every season and rank the players in their prime

As an aside, forgotten brilliant player mentioned here: Ruben Sosa

Here's a video idea @HITC Sevens: an all-time World XI based on each player's best single-game performance (league, cup, or international)

I'd like to add something about Romario, a lot of ex-players turned politicians in Brazil went for it because of money, religion and/or ideologies, power or just flat out the corruption lifestyle that is rampant here. Romario on the other way, went on politics because he does have one child with Down's syndrome, and back than, the usual way of treatment for that and the majority of disabilities was just locking them up on some state-owned asylum. The initial stages of his career as a congressman was focused on improving the lives of ppl with disabilities on Brazil, and looking back now, I think he somehow surpassed the expectations (it's nowhere close to perfection, but at the time was a taboo just to see someone with DS in public with you, they were considered as people by the system and shit, nowadays it's MUCH better). I know, he's overly pragmatic with another stuff, very outspoken and on a uncharacteristic way for an idol turned politician, does not went over the "populist character" train. I'm VERY left leaning, but in my state, the politician class of all the spectrum are so inapt, corrupted or outwardly pathological, that everytime he tries to run, as a congressman or as a governor, I vote for him instead of the names on tge left-wing agenda, just because i know, that are thing i don't like, but none of things i do hate and unfortunately that's how you choose someone to vote on Brazil (And yes, because of all of that he is unscathed by the wild polarization that's happening here, it's like he is against all the sides just the right amount to not be hated for not being on the same agenda as the enemy beside don't being an allied.) Well, with that said, love your videos, your production and the gargantuan amount of knowledge you have, you're a terrific bloke, the best sports channel on the platform, I wish your content never changes!

Do a video on the safest managers, as in least likely to lose their job no matter how poorly they do

Love your work Alfie! Although I'm not sure I agree with the declaration that Romario is surely the greatest player to play professionally in Australia. Alessandro Del Piero and George Best may have something to say about that!

You could have included David Seaman at Manchester City... Who quit halfway through a season due to his form, it was quite a fall when you consider he joined City only the season after his last game for England...

Hey @HITCSevens, love the channel & content. I've a suggestion for video along similar lines: expensive PL transfer players that did not produce in their first season (e.g., Drogba, Suarez etc). Not sure if there's enough material but worth a punt.

Shevchenko wasn't world class in 2003-2006?! (He was) Shevchenko didn't flop at chelsea?! (He did) How the fudge is he not number one or even INCLUDED in this list alfie my man???

You had me clickbaited with Schweinsteiger 😂 my favourite player of all time, he definitely wasn't amazing for United but not terrible either

2:57 the way you pronounced Michelangelo made me fall off my chair 😂😂🤣🤣 omg

Do a video on the Pogmentary

Footballers are just humans after all. Sometimes a bad environment can ruin your form or impact your mental health negatively.

19:46 as a Leicester fan this hurts me

Rio did once say in a post match on sky or whatever that his year at qpr was the year too much, that he shouldn’t have gone on this extra year, so you’re right !

Imo for the world class definition you can't really say the top 2 or 3 in each position cause that means the definition always changes. If someone scores 40 goals in a season, but scored less than cr7 messi and suarez, then is he world class? And about the Rio example back then (let's say 2008 during the double winning season) then we had Terry vidic rio puyol cannavaro, each one was world class

Immobile at Dortmund comes to mind (yes, I know that he doesn't qualify for this list since he is still active)

Sick Léo Goalmalho reference

Nemanja Vidic at Inter should be on here, he's the worst defender I've ever seen play for Inter which is saying something considering his prior reputation in the Premier League.

Romario was also abysmal in Valencia, where his coach Luis Aragones didn't like him was signed by the club without asking the manager.

You should do a video on “7 players you would never have heard of had they not played at a World Cup”

Day 46: Considering that the last player who played in the miracle of Bern died about 7 months ago, I would really like to see a video about the whole story between Germany and Hungary, especially because it meant so much to at least the German population

I'm fairly sure you could do a list of 7 World Class players who were terrible only for Barça and still have leftover players

Love the Léo Gamalho reference

Schweinsteiger was treated like shit!

Ian Rush at Juventus Mark Hughes at Barcelona

Schweinsteiger was treated horribly at ManU.

re Rio. One can argue forever about his footballing skills. What is not at doubt is his ability to manage a diary and keep appointments.........

That Nike QPR kit is a thing of beauty.

Similar idea to this: world class players who were horrible for their national team

You showed Ian when you said Right. You should've shown Nicky when you said But. (I'm trying to think of some more.)

How about a video of 7 managers who only did well at 1 club

cheeky channel shoutout i like it

2:56 Michael Angelo? :DD

Video idea what is going on at Staines Town

Shevchenko at Chelsea surely is the stand out one.

@HITC7s should consider a 7s on the women's game. There's so much I'm sure most of us have no idea about the women's game.

Rio was clearly on the decline his last season at United let alone his year at QPR.

As a Roma fan, I forgot about Cole the moment he left Arsenal.

Every Ballon d'Or winner ranked from smallest to tallest

falcao at utd/chelsea 😔

it got to be done Alfie, right anyhow. you get the drift.

Rio Ferdinand was dealing with his wife dying of cancer, when he played at QPR, his drop in form to me is completely understandable.

you should've mentioned Andriy Shevchenko and his time at Chelsea

I’d add Roy Keane at Celtic

Who is that Guy that is standing to the right of Ferdinand at 8:09?

1:43 yeah i can still renember

The story of Martin Palermo

Cashley was also really bad for Galaxy. The only reason he played so much was that he was their only option at right back. He was a failure at Roma because they have this thing in Serie A that defenders have to actually you know...defend. And he was always an attack-minded fullback, the sort of player who would be a wing back in today's 3 centreback formation. By the time he got to Los Angeles he was not so good at attack because he was just plain getting old and his defending was so shoddy that he was regularly getting beaten by the wingers of MLS...and he was arguably the Galaxy's best defender for those years.

Time catches up with everyone...

A genius who a team does NOT suit is never going to work as well as with a team with whom they DO fit. This is so obvious it's amazing that it needs to be said! This is why players who perform marvellously at one club do not necessarily continue to perform as effectively with a new club. This would be particularly true of members of the new club deliberately play to undermine the newcomer for whatever reason.

Mishelangelo was a great artist🤪

Roberto Carlos only went to inter because of the Rui Costa deal to Fiorentina...correct me if I am wrong