Who is the biggest “what if” player of all time? What I mean by this is a player who could’ve had a dramatically different or better career if he had chose a different option.

One of my picks is Neymar. What if he stayed at Barcelona?

  • mdg_ign@alien.topB
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    11 months ago

    Ousmane Dembele, what if he wasn’t so injury prone and had more discipline and ambition? I’ve never seen a player more both footed than him, you can see it in the way he runs, with and without the ball, dribbles, shoots, etc. There are players who have almost perfected their weak foot later in their career, but Ousmane was like that since he was at Rennes, before he moved to Dortmund. He was beating defenders mainly with body feints and fake shots/crosses. He is so impossible to read precisely because he has no weak foot, how can any defender possibly call the bluff on a player’s body feints, fake shots and crosses when the guy can do everything so well with each one of his feet? He was such an immense and unique talent at Dortmund…