| Footballers signed after a great international tournament 15:33 - Jun 14 with 3508 views | MB26 |
What I enjoy most about international tournaments is when players have an absolute blinder of a tournament which earns them a move to a big club only for it to turn out that they aren't very good. Let's run through some famous examples, I'll start
El-Hadji Diouf & Salif Diao to Liverpool in 2002.
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| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 15:35 - Jun 14 with 2730 views | StirlingArcher |
Wasn't Poborsky untouchable at one of the major tournaments, then a bit pants at Man U? |  | | |
| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 15:35 - Jun 14 with 2727 views | DanTheMan |
Might be wrong with this but wasn't Kleberson signed off the back of a good World Cup? Same year actually, although didn't go to Man Utd until a year later. [Post edited 14 Jun 2021 15:35]
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| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 15:39 - Jun 14 with 2689 views | itfcjoe |
Amir Karic - Euro 2000
On a more serious note his team mate Zlatko Zahovic got a big move off the back of that tournamnet and never did anything..............and Savo Milosevic went to Parma for £25m off the back of getting the Golden Boot there and did buggar all |  |
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| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 15:41 - Jun 14 with 2660 views | PhilTWTD |
| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 15:35 - Jun 14 by StirlingArcher |
Wasn't Poborsky untouchable at one of the major tournaments, then a bit pants at Man U? |
Made his name at Euro 96 if I remember rightly, as did Patrik Berger, I think. |  | | |
| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 15:41 - Jun 14 with 2656 views | marchy |
| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 15:35 - Jun 14 by StirlingArcher |
Wasn't Poborsky untouchable at one of the major tournaments, then a bit pants at Man U? |
Euro '96. See also Jordi Cruyff! |  | | |
| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 15:42 - Jun 14 with 2651 views | marchy |
Stephane Guivarc'h to Newcastle 1998.
Actually...he was just as crap at the World Cup as he turned out to be for Newcastle. [Post edited 14 Jun 2021 15:43]
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| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 15:45 - Jun 14 with 2620 views | Keno |
Finidi George? |  |
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| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 15:48 - Jun 14 with 2600 views | Churchman |
Boncho Guenchev? Or was he an international after playing for us? |  | | |
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| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 16:00 - Jun 14 with 2558 views | PhilTWTD |
| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 15:48 - Jun 14 by Churchman |
Boncho Guenchev? Or was he an international after playing for us? |
We signed him on Bobby Robson's recommendation as he didn't want him at Sporting Lisbon. He was already an international by that point (although hadn't played as many games as the clubs told the Home Office, of course). | | | |
| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 16:03 - Jun 14 with 2518 views | EddyJ |
James Rodriguez to Real Madrid
Hal Robson-Kanu to West Brom
Andrey Arshavin to Arsenal
Maybe:
Tomas Rosicky to Arsenal [Post edited 14 Jun 2021 16:05]
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| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 16:07 - Jun 14 with 2476 views | Mediocre_Quick |
Memphis Depay to United after the last euros, or was he signed the year after? |  | | |
| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 16:12 - Jun 14 with 2458 views | Swansea_Blue |
Not a signing, but Mario Götze seemed to have the world at his feet when he scored the winner in the 2014 World Cup final. I think he's only managed 3 or 4 international goals since and dropped out of the Germany team fairly soon after. So that was definitely his international high point (I think he's had a pretty good club career though). |  |
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| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 16:21 - Jun 14 with 2401 views | BluedanW |
| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 16:12 - Jun 14 by Swansea_Blue |
Not a signing, but Mario Götze seemed to have the world at his feet when he scored the winner in the 2014 World Cup final. I think he's only managed 3 or 4 international goals since and dropped out of the Germany team fairly soon after. So that was definitely his international high point (I think he's had a pretty good club career though). |
On the same note Toto Scillachi was golden boot in 90 world cup. He had already signed for Juventus the year before, however he never did hit his potential afterwards | | | |
| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 16:26 - Jun 14 with 2365 views | Parsley |
| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 16:12 - Jun 14 by Swansea_Blue |
Not a signing, but Mario Götze seemed to have the world at his feet when he scored the winner in the 2014 World Cup final. I think he's only managed 3 or 4 international goals since and dropped out of the Germany team fairly soon after. So that was definitely his international high point (I think he's had a pretty good club career though). |
Are there any players where scoring the winner in the world cup final isn't a high point? :P |  | | |
| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 16:29 - Jun 14 with 2342 views | WeWereZombies |
Sergei Baltacha was in the Russian team that finished as runners up in the 1988 Euros, he was with Dynamo Kyiv then but signed for us later that year. A better signing than Amir Karic but that's not saying much. |  |
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| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 16:30 - Jun 14 with 2344 views | JDB23 |
Not quite what you were asking for but I remember after Euro 2008 I emailed the club with the suggestion of looking at one of the Polish players who I thought looked very handy, his name was Roger Guerreiro. Having just googled him, can’t say he really had a stellar career after that! | | | |
| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 16:49 - Jun 14 with 2238 views | BryanPlug |
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| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 16:56 - Jun 14 with 2201 views | StokieBlue |
| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 16:03 - Jun 14 by EddyJ |
James Rodriguez to Real Madrid
Hal Robson-Kanu to West Brom
Andrey Arshavin to Arsenal
Maybe:
Tomas Rosicky to Arsenal [Post edited 14 Jun 2021 16:05]
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Arshavin was pretty good for Arsenal for a couple of years.
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| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 17:01 - Jun 14 with 2183 views | DanTheMan |
| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 16:56 - Jun 14 by StokieBlue |
Arshavin was pretty good for Arsenal for a couple of years.
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Rosicky wasn't bad either, spent a long time at Arsenal. | |
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| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 17:19 - Jun 14 with 2128 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 16:26 - Jun 14 by Parsley |
Are there any players where scoring the winner in the world cup final isn't a high point? :P |
Ha, fair point! Let's just say he never did properly deliver on that early promise (at international level). | |
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| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 17:24 - Jun 14 with 2104 views | eireblue |
| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 15:45 - Jun 14 by Keno |
Finidi George? |
Burst onto the scene when Nigeria first entered the Africa Cup in 1963. |  | | |
| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 17:29 - Jun 14 with 2082 views | WeWereZombies |
| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 17:24 - Jun 14 by eireblue |
Burst onto the scene when Nigeria first entered the Africa Cup in 1963. |
Presumably that was a veterans tournament... | |
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| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 17:29 - Jun 14 with 2080 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 16:49 - Jun 14 by BryanPlug |
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Dumistrescu to Spurs after 1994. |  |
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| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 17:30 - Jun 14 with 2080 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 15:35 - Jun 14 by StirlingArcher |
Wasn't Poborsky untouchable at one of the major tournaments, then a bit pants at Man U? |
That lob v Portugal in 1996!! [Post edited 14 Jun 2021 17:31]
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| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 17:34 - Jun 14 with 2055 views | EddyJ |
| Footballers signed after a great international tournament on 17:01 - Jun 14 by DanTheMan |
Rosicky wasn't bad either, spent a long time at Arsenal. |
I debated whether to include both.
Neither really lived up to their initial promise, which was hyped by performances at World Cup 2006 and Euro 2008. | | | |
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