2001's top 100 youngsters in the world

[Neville Neville Neville 0]

seems like the guy was either a scout, or copied it from 442 magazine based on a couple of other topics that refer to it. Quite an interesting retrospective look methinks

 

there's chopra, collocini, and viana with newcastle careers... not sure what makes me more, the performance of the ones who were playing or went on to play for liverpool.... or cherno samba (championship manager legend!!)

 

http://www.redcafe.net/f15/first-draft-top...rld-list-30449/

 

1. Djibril Cisse (STR, Auxerre)

2. Andres D'Allesandro (AM, River Plate)

3. Leandro Bonfim (AM, Vitoria/PSV Eindhoven)

4. Fernando Jose Torres (STR, Atletico Madrid)

5. Jermaine Pennant (R/WNG, Arsenal)

6. Rafael Van der Vaart (C/MF, Ajax)

7. Florent Sinama-Pongolle (STR, Le Havre/Liverpool)

8. Piotr Trochowski (AM, FC Bayern Munich)

9. Anthony Le Tallec (AM/CFWD, Le Havre/Liverpool)

10. Mourad Meghni (AM, Bologna)

11. Pedro Mantorras (STR, Benfica Lisbon)

12. David Odonkor (FWD, Borussia Dortmund)

13. Darren Fletcher (C/MF, Manchester United)

14. John Welsh (C/DM, Liverpool)

15. Kim Kallstrom (CM, BK Hacken)

16. Philippe Mexes (CB, Auxerre)

17. Johnny Heitinga (CB, Ajax)

18. Juan Andreu Melli (CM, Real Betis)

19. Baldo Di Gregorio (CB, Eintract Frankfurt)

20. Andres Iniesta (AM, Barcelona)

21. Milan Baros (STR, Liverpool)

22. Marius Niculae (STR, Sporting Lisbon)

23. Fabricio Coloccini (CB, Milan/on loan to Alaves)

24. Ricardo Bernardo Quaresma (L/WNG, Sporting Lisbon)

25. Maicon (RWB, Cruzeiro)

26. Hugo Viana (CM, Sporting Lisbon)

27. Arjen Robben (L/WNG, Groningen/PSV Eindhoven)

28. Julio Colombo (CB, Montpellier)

29. Gregory Vignal (LB, Liverpool)

30. Jermaine DeFoe (STR, West Ham United)

31. Gareth Barry (LB, Aston Villa)

32. Marat Izmailov (AM/FWD, Lokomotiv Moscow)

33. Hassan Yebda (DM, Auxerre)

34. Leandro Romagnoli (AM, San Lorenzo)

35. Zlatan Ibrahimovic (CFWD, Ajax)

36. Dean Ashton (CFWD, Crewe Alexandria)

37. Ednilson (AM, Benfica Lisbon)

38. Chris Kirkland (GK, Liverpool)

39. Emilliano S. Dudar (CB, Velez Sarsfield)

40. Helder Postiga (STR, Porto)

41. Ahmed 'Mido' Hossam (STR/LWNG, Ajax)

42. Joaquin Sanchez (L/WNG, Real Betis)

43. Diego Ribas (AM, Santos)

44. Jay Lucas (CFWD, Southampton)

45. Niko Kranjcar (AM/CFWD, Dinamo Zagreb)

46. Christian Petereit (RB/CB, Schalke 04)

47. Ewerthon (STR/FWD, Borussia Dortmund)

48. Gael Givet (CB/LB, Monaco)

49. Francesco Lodi (AM, Empoli/Parma)

50. Massimo Donati (DM, AC Milan)

51. Gatti Ribeiro (RWB, Blooming)

52. Jeremie Aliadiere (STR, Arsenal)

53. Francesco Tarantino (LB/CB, Athletic Bilbao)

54. Lourenco Da Silva (FWD/LWNG, Sporting Lisbon)

55. Alexander Ludwig (L/WNG, Werder Bremen)

56. Landon Donovan (STR, San Jose Earthquakes)

57. Ricardo Costa (CB, FC Porto)

58. Filip Trojan (L/WNG, Schalke 04)

59. Carlos Martins (CM, Sporting Lisbon)

60. Serhat Akin (STR, Fenerbahce)

61. Johnnier Montano (AM/FWD, Parma-on loan to Verona)

62. Mark Fotheringham (C/MF, Celtic)

63. Rubinho (GK, Corinthians)

64. Michael Chopra (STR, Newcastle)

65. Edward Johnson (STR, Dallas Burn)

66. Johnny Van Beukering (STR, Vitesse)

67. Santino Quaranta (STR, DC United)

68. Andreas Hinkel (RB/RWB, Stuttgart)

69. Bojan Djrodjic (L/WNG, Manchester United)

70. Matteo Brighi (CM, Juventus)

71. Cherno Samba (CFWD, Millwall)

72. Hassan Ahamada (LWNG/STR, Nantes)

73. Theo Janssen (LM, Vitesse)

74. Derik Boateng (AM, Panathinaikos)

75. Mauro Rosales (R/WNG, Newell's Old Boys)

76. Dulee Johnson (STR, BK Hacken)

77. Fernando Macedo Nano (L/WNG, Barcelona)

78. Michael Essien (D/MF, Bastia)

79. Andres Oliveira (STR/FWD, Perth Glory)

80. Candido Costa (AM, Porto)

81. Tuomas Aho (CB, My-Pa)

82. Dimitar Berbatov (STR, Bayer Leverkusen)

83. Thijs Houwing (CFWD, Twente)

84. Labinot Harbuzi (AM, Malmo FF)

85. Michael Zepek (CM, Bayer Leverkusen)

86. Mika Vayrynen (AM, FC Jokerit)

87. Ramon Calliste (STR, Manchester United)

88. Christoph Preuss (RWB, Eintract Frankfurt)

89. Keith Kelly (CM, PSG)

90. Aldo Jara (FWD, Cerro Portano)

91. Kieran Richardson (L/WNG, Manchester United)

92. Leonardo Santiago (L/WNG, Feyenoord)

93. Shaun Maloney(STR, Celtic)

94. Azar Karadas (CFWD/CB, Brann Bergen)

95. Kaka (AM, Sao Paulo)

96. Benjamin Auer (CFWD, Borussia M'Gladbach)

97. Daniyel Cimen (LB/CB, Eintract Frankfurt)

98. Erdal Kilicaslan (CFWD, Bayern Munich)

99. David Prutton (D/MF, Nottingham Forest)

100. Alexander Hleb (AM, Stuttgart)

[Shak 0]

Cherno Samba was the business.

 

His stats stayed shite but he was immense nonetheless.

[ewerk 31225]

Cherno Samba was the business.

 

His stats stayed shite but he was immense nonetheless.

 

Plying his trade in Finland these days.

[Douggy B 0]

Postiga

[Douggy B 0]

Cherno Samba was the business.

 

His stats stayed shite but he was immense nonetheless.

 

Plying his trade in Finland these days.

 

He played for plymouth a couple of seasons back. Lots of promise...zero delivery.

[richg 0]

95. Kaka (AM, Sao Paulo)

[Neville Neville Neville 0]

On paper wouldn't argue with the 90 spaces between kaka and pennant........ just not in that order!!

 

to be fair, there's no indication (i don't think) that the players are ranked, although if they weren't then you'd expect them to be grouped by club or position or alphabetically, so maybe they are

[Geordieboyo 0]

Funny how in 2001 Chopra was more highly rated than Martins

[Ketsbaia 0]

To be fair to Chopra he was a complete monster in the youth team and reserves. I can remember a rumour doing the rounds that SAF had tried to sign him and Robson had told him to fuck off.

[Craig 6700]

Funny how in 2001 Chopra (#64) was more highly rated than Berbatov (#82)

 

FYP

[Ayatollah Hermione 14069]

Is this in order? If so, the notion of Pennant being more highly rated than Kaka tickles me.

[Neville Neville Neville 0]

well, from Wiki, John Welsh #14 (who apparently plays in a similar style to Gerrard!!) has only had 4 top-flight games in his career thus far. doubt anyone else in the list has had as shoddy a career as him yet

[Geordieboyo 0]

well, from Wiki, John Welsh #14 (who apparently plays in a similar style to Gerrard!!) has only had 4 top-flight games in his career thus far. doubt anyone else in the list has had as shoddy a career as him yet

 

Chopra played for the Mackems ftw

[Neville Neville Neville 0]

well, from Wiki, John Welsh #14 (who apparently plays in a similar style to Gerrard!!) has only had 4 top-flight games in his career thus far. doubt anyone else in the list has had as shoddy a career as him yet

 

Chopra played for the Mackems ftw

 

true, but he also managed to score against them without breaking stride from running on as a sub

[Isegrim 9906]

Hmm, this list looks very FM-esque to me and the guy a bit of a bullshitter.

 

Just from those Jorman players he mentions most didn't make it and I can't remember them being really rated very highly at that time (with the exemption of Trochowski).

 

I particularly am puzzled with this one:

 

46. Christian Petereit (RB/CB, Schalke 04)

 

I've never heard of him tbh, neither from the club he is now playing for. No wonder they are playing in the league that is something like the 6th or th division. But apparently the guy with the list considered him as one of the only defender with the potential to be "world-class".

Edited November 13, 2008 by Isegrim

[Neville Neville Neville 0]

would be a complete giveaway of champ manager use if someone like pete prospar popped up!!! was a beast on cm3

[Deano 0]

No way is it in order

[Meenzer 15737]

Disappointing lack of Tó Madeira, for that matter.

[Optimistic Nut 190]

Interesting to see Essien on that list from his Bastia days!

 

Remember looking through the "Rumours" section on nufc.com, and he was linked with us from Bastia in 2000/1.

[Optimistic Nut 190]

Some fantastic previous links!

 

December 14th, 2000 - Peter Crouch - FORWARD - QPR - Private Source

March 15th, 2001 - Andy Johnson - FORWARD - Birmingham - Teamsquawk

April 2nd, 2001 - Rafael van der Vaart - MIDFIELDER - Ajax - Midas Soccer

August 23rd, 2001 - Andy Cole - FORWARD - Man Utd - Private Source

November 30th, 2001 - Dirk Kuyt - FORWARD - Utrecht - Journal

March 10th, 2002 - Paul Kitson - FORWARD - West Ham - Sunday Mirror ()

November 23rd, 2002 - John Terry - DEFENDER - Chelsea - Private Source

November 24th, 2002 - William Gallas - DEFENDER - Chelsea - Mail on Sunday

January 2003 - Michael Essien (Bastia), Rafael Marquez (Monaco)

May 28th, 2003 - Morten Gamst Pedersen - MIDFIELDER - Tromso - Dagbladet

[Kevin Carr's Gloves 3982]

i read a magazine interview with the fm guys and they have the largest football scouting network in the world.

[Tooj 17]

Disappointing lack of Tó Madeira, for that matter.

[Billy Whitehurst 933]

Disappointing lack of Tó Madeira, for that matter.

 

He was one of the programmers that worked on the game. There is quite a funny article on The Guardian website about Championship Manager.

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2008/...yofsix-football

Edited November 14, 2008 by Billy Whitehurst

[Park Life 71]

Disappointing lack of Tó Madeira, for that matter.

 

He was one of the programmers that worked on the game. There is quite a funny article on The Guardian website about Championship Manager.

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2008/...yofsix-football

 

 

I remember Bakayoko.

[Gejon 2]

I remember being linked to Terry in the Chronicle, even remember the headline 'TERRY'S ALL GOLD"