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Players who we sold off and improved

Kanoute is a good shout, also Luke Young especially considering after they were sold we were screaming out for players like them to get in our side.

Routledge is an interesting one really struggled for form after losing his place to Lennon but when he got consistent first team football again he really took off. Ironically enough, 8 years later I would actually prefer him to Lennon now his end product is much better and he would probably score and assist even more in our side
 
milo said:
I think that he often seems a better player in the memory than he was at the time. He was a very talented player but he was also very hot and cold.
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Kanoute wins the "most overated player in the minds of GG members ever"

Yes, he went on to a very successful career in Spain, however his record in England (across an extended period) is actually quite ordinary.
 
clevelandspur said:
Routledge is an interesting one really struggled for form after losing his place to Lennon but when he got consistent first team football again he really took off. Ironically enough, 8 years later I would actually prefer him to Lennon now his end product is much better and he would probably score and assist even more in our side
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Disagree, but even if you think so, a lot of poor years between when we let him go and now.
 
Yes, it seems like he has lasted better than Lennon, but how many years would he have been preferred to Lennon?

Here is a good example of happenstance in football. Routledge was the player we had been chasing, Lennon just another possibility. Routledge gets injured and Lennon steps up. For the next five years ago Lennon was definitely the better player.

Routledge has his qualities, but how much was lost by an injury at a crucial formative stage of his career? He had to deal with injuries, but many other prospects chose to go to bigger clubs and spend their formative years on the bench (e.g. SWP, Sidwell, Rodwell, Parker, etc.). Just when they are developing mentally and physically they take a time-out from their careers.

Imagine any other career where someone just misses out on the best opportunity and decides to take an option where they are not developing their careers. Fail to get into Oxbridge, go on sit on a park bench in Oxford or Cambridge. Fail to get a job at Goldman-Sachs, go and on a bench outside the local Barclays.
 
Raziel said:
Kanoute wins the "most overated player in the minds of GG members ever"

Yes, he went on to a very successful career in Spain, however his record in England (across an extended period) is actually quite ordinary.
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everyone knows his record wasn't all that - but when he was on his game he was such a great footballer to watch it didn't really matter
 
I guess Crouch is the best answer. We released him as a kid right?? Yet he made his way back up through the system to end up playing in the premier league and for the national team. Routledge is also another decent shout, perhaps Kaboul and Defoe when we sold them to Pompey the first time round, as we came back in for both of them.
 
Cochise said:
I guess Crouch is the best answer. We released him as a kid right?? Yet he made his way back up through the system to end up playing in the premier league and for the national team. Routledge is also another decent shout, perhaps Kaboul and Defoe when we sold them to Pompey the first time round, as we came back in for both of them.
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Sold him to QPR for 80K IIRC.
 
Didn't we sell kanoute after a pre season bust up over a tour or something along those lines?

Dalmat bloody hell, gave O'Hara a slap and we never saw him again :lol:
 
spitshine said:
Bump...
Not sure if been mentioned but think Wayne Routledge deserves a mention
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It's taken him a long while to show his initial potential. He didn't really get a chance with us because of Lennon. He was our target for months, upsetting the orange man at Palace, Lennon more an afterthought. An unlucky injury for Routledge and the rest was history.
 
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