Roland Beurre
Tony Parks
As has been pointed out in another thread, very few prospects (i.e. young promising players) let go by THFC have gone on to what might be termed better things.
We've had lots of people we let go who have had decent careers but very few who went on to be world-beaters; the only one I can think of is Graeme Souness, who should have been our new Dave Mackay.
Older fans might remember Keith Weller who did well at Millwall, Chelsea and Leicester (?), or Bowen and Culverhouse, the full-backs in that Norwich team that, hard though it is to believe, challenged for the title. They probably would've made it in the THFC teams of the day but that might say more about the quality of the THFC teams at the time.
Mostly, though, it has been a succession of players who have found their level, with that level being on a par with Tottenham or a step or two below it.
In my time on Glory-Glory, I can recall strong cases ("give him a chance") being made for Jonathan Blundell, Adel Taarabt, Lewis Holtby, Kevin Prince Boateng and Marcus Edwards, to name but five.
I myself regretted the release of Alex Pritchard, John Moncur and Tom Carroll and yet none of these subsequently pulled up any trees (I might still have Pritchard on the bench as a specialist free-kick taker - well, we've got five subs per game allowed now so I can see this sort of thing happening).
So, finally getting to the point, who is your "might have been (but in fact probably would not have been)" player?
(Apologies if this has already been covered in a thread before; it was prompted by seeing a mention of Marcus Edwards).
We've had lots of people we let go who have had decent careers but very few who went on to be world-beaters; the only one I can think of is Graeme Souness, who should have been our new Dave Mackay.
Older fans might remember Keith Weller who did well at Millwall, Chelsea and Leicester (?), or Bowen and Culverhouse, the full-backs in that Norwich team that, hard though it is to believe, challenged for the title. They probably would've made it in the THFC teams of the day but that might say more about the quality of the THFC teams at the time.
Mostly, though, it has been a succession of players who have found their level, with that level being on a par with Tottenham or a step or two below it.
In my time on Glory-Glory, I can recall strong cases ("give him a chance") being made for Jonathan Blundell, Adel Taarabt, Lewis Holtby, Kevin Prince Boateng and Marcus Edwards, to name but five.
I myself regretted the release of Alex Pritchard, John Moncur and Tom Carroll and yet none of these subsequently pulled up any trees (I might still have Pritchard on the bench as a specialist free-kick taker - well, we've got five subs per game allowed now so I can see this sort of thing happening).
So, finally getting to the point, who is your "might have been (but in fact probably would not have been)" player?
(Apologies if this has already been covered in a thread before; it was prompted by seeing a mention of Marcus Edwards).
