I've always said it, Zlatan was never a flop at Barcelona, he just had personal issues with his manager.

I don't know why, but I find it insane that Owen was only 24 when he signed for Real Madrid. I know he was so young when he broke through, but the fact that he joined Newcastle at 25 therefore feels weirder.

7 players who everyone thought he was good but was an actual flop

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Spurs fan here and we truly do look back at Lamela as a character player who embodied an era of our team but also see him as someone who would probably stab someone for Spurs, the badge meant a lot to him and it was visible

Griezmann at Barcelona was played out of position during all his stay and still got like 50 goal involvements in 2 years

I feel like James Rodriguez at Bayern gets labeled as a flop a lot when I found him to be pretty exceptional in his first season at a minimum

lukaku to man united also wasn't that bad of a transfer
he was brought in for 75m euros and sold for around 60-65m euros which isn't that bad given that he had 55 goal contributions in 96 games with a goal contribution less than 2 games and was a part of a few memorable games for man united in recent years like scoring a brace in the comeback of paris, scoring a brace on his debut, he missed like 9 games because of injury in his 2 years at old trafford (in all competitions), scored or assisted in all rounds of fa cup in 2018 (except the final)

With Neymar it is also important to note that he significantly boosted the league's profile which no doubt boosted PSG's revenue as well

Alfie thought we would forget about the "7 best center forwards in the 2000s" video

The Micheal Owen Story is definitely the England Curse nowadays… always have a plethora of attackers under 25 that all look “as good as the Golden Generation” and then in the next World Cup/International tourney usually none of them are to be found with either bang average performances or injuries beyond belief

To this day I'm still baffled by how often Ibra's Barca season is labaled as a flop, given how prolific his scoring remained despite the stacked team. Guess all what is really remembered is the Guardiola falling out which soured the whole thing.

Most Barca fans who watched Ibra during first half of that season do not think he was a flop. Guardiola was an awesome manager but his mistake was the romantic idea to play false 9 which worked in the league but not the CL. He under appreciated Eto’o as well who was an extremely effective goal scorer.

Could maybe even make a case for Et'o being in last week's under rated video, he was absolutely fantastic and probably didn't get the credit he deserved, also the 20 million valuation as part of the Zlatan deal is criminal, he was worth at least twice that at the time

Nasri is such a good pundit in France now. He always speaking his mind, no bullshit, a huge smile and a friendly guy overall. Coming from a Parisian, that should tell you how good he is. He has a lot of things to tell about his career and this city squad and it's always interesting

Neymar was a good player, even at PSG, but they overpaid for him. That and injuries didn’t exactly help!

Owen's move to Madrid was in a decent size part down to Raul making a point of treating him like shit as a result of Owen having replaced Raul's mate Morientes. I'm pretty sure I saw that he refused to speak to him and shit like that, not to mention the amount of different coaches they had

Zlatan is unique and i don't think there will ever be a second Zlatan maybe a better striker but there won't be a personality like Zlatan ever in this era where you need Massive balls of steel to go against Pep

The idea that Crespo at Chelsea was a flop is a bit of a football paradox. I dunno if it's just my experience but despite it being an accepted thing, when you talk to people about it (Chelsea & non-Chelsea fans) it's never hard to reach a consensus that he wasn't bad at all. He seems to have hit to perfect combination of high expectations & acceptable (not great) performance, and again acceptable (not great) return on investment contrasting with the players bought around the same time.

I think having two separate spells with differing expectations plays into that curious paradigm as well, and it's interesting that you brought up Morata here as I think he had potential to have fallen into the same weird space lol. Lets say Atletico couldn't afford him & he had to come back but as an established no.2 (behind Abraham it would've been), if he'd have returned the same passable numbers but as a rotational option this time, I reckon the perception of him at Chelsea would've looked different today.

Di Maria is labelled a flop because he started out incredible with 3 Goals and 4 assists in his first 6 games, then only managed a single goal against Yeovil after October, and 8 more assists across the whole rest of the season