Saw an article here in Cyprus whilst on holiday that he has given up a footballing career and retired from playing football at 24 years old, after failing to find a tesm since leaving Pafos FC in the summer of 2018.
Still cannot fathom this. That half a season in 13/14; the best and most consistent performances I’ve ever seen from a Charlton youngster just breaking in - ahead of Rufus, Parker, shelvey, Gomez, lookman. Absolutely out of this world he was, and only 18. How he has ended up in this position I will never know.
Still cannot fathom this. That half a season in 13/14; the best and most consistent performances I’ve ever seen from a Charlton youngster just breaking in - ahead of Rufus, Parker, shelvey, Gomez, lookman. Absolutely out of this world he was, and only 18. How he has ended up in this position I will never know.
He had plenty of money and therefore insufficient desire
Still cannot fathom this. That half a season in 13/14; the best and most consistent performances I’ve ever seen from a Charlton youngster just breaking in - ahead of Rufus, Parker, shelvey, Gomez, lookman. Absolutely out of this world he was, and only 18. How he has ended up in this position I will never know.
Not for me. Poyet was very good for us the time he played, but Gomez was on a completely different level.
Not sure if we will have anyone as talented as him come through our youth set up again, or at least for a while. A once in a generation sort of player.
Saw an article here in Cyprus whilst on holiday that he has given up a footballing career and retired from playing football at 24 years old, after failing to find a tesm since leaving Pafos FC in the summer of 2018.
Such a shame
Wow, if you had told me this would be his future when he was playing for us, I would have laughed at you.
Still cannot fathom this. That half a season in 13/14; the best and most consistent performances I’ve ever seen from a Charlton youngster just breaking in - ahead of Rufus, Parker, shelvey, Gomez, lookman. Absolutely out of this world he was, and only 18. How he has ended up in this position I will never know.
Can only be his mindset.
As you say the talent was clearly there, so that leaves his desire/workrate.
Still cannot fathom this. That half a season in 13/14; the best and most consistent performances I’ve ever seen from a Charlton youngster just breaking in - ahead of Rufus, Parker, shelvey, Gomez, lookman. Absolutely out of this world he was, and only 18. How he has ended up in this position I will never know.
He had plenty of money and therefore insufficient desire
Still cannot fathom this. That half a season in 13/14; the best and most consistent performances I’ve ever seen from a Charlton youngster just breaking in - ahead of Rufus, Parker, shelvey, Gomez, lookman. Absolutely out of this world he was, and only 18. How he has ended up in this position I will never know.
Not sure if he was better than Gomez, but he was excellent for those 3 months, effortlessly replacing the departed Dale Stephens.
Baffling how his career went backwards after that, and the strange moves to South America and Cyprus
I always got the impression from looking at his social media at the time that he was more after the "celebrity" football career EG: David Beckham rather than a Lampard. He had barely kicked a ball in first team football and yet appeared in some advert. Given his dad's advice and money not being a issue I saw the West ham move as a status one rather than a footballing/money one.
Still cannot fathom this. That half a season in 13/14; the best and most consistent performances I’ve ever seen from a Charlton youngster just breaking in - ahead of Rufus, Parker, shelvey, Gomez, lookman. Absolutely out of this world he was, and only 18. How he has ended up in this position I will never know.
I totally agree, one of the weirdest stories in recent football regarding a player’s development that I can remember. Shocking that he was a top, top champ player that half season and easily our star player. To this!? So strange.
Poyet's story only serves to confirm that once ability takes a sportsman to a certain level, it is the mental side that dictates whether they will be successful. When self doubt, over thinking the situation and a lack of playing instinctively takes over, everything becomes a trial and the inclination is to go for safety or even to go missing.
Poyet is the best academy player I've seen come through the ranks for us since Parker, and that includes Gomez. Astonishing to think that this is how it has ended up.
Surprised he hasn't even managed to find something in the lower leagues.
Worst case scenario, surely he should have been able to walk into any League One club, that's what I don't get. To not progress is a very sad thing, but to actually drop backwards is completely bizarre.
Poyet is the best academy player I've seen come through the ranks for us since Parker, and that includes Gomez. Astonishing to think that this is how it has ended up.
Surprised he hasn't even managed to find something in the lower leagues.
Worst case scenario, surely he should have been able to walk into any League One club, that's what I don't get. To not progress is a very sad thing, but to actually drop backwards is completely bizarre.
As I say it's all to do with what is going on in his head - and when that goes everything goes. Once that happens the player finds himself dropping down leagues so the desire goes too - one because he is financially comfortable but also because he believes he will never hit the heights he once did. So he retires.
It is the complete opposite of a Jamie Vardy. Poyet is the privately educated son of a former professional footballer and manager as against the lad who was discarded because he was too small and ended up working in a factory and playing part time. The fire was still burning for Vardy because he had a point to prove and continues to do so because he has witnessed what the alternatives were for him.
Poyet is the best academy player I've seen come through the ranks for us since Parker, and that includes Gomez. Astonishing to think that this is how it has ended up.
Surprised he hasn't even managed to find something in the lower leagues.
He was very good, I thought Gomez was better. I seem to recall around the time that Gomez was with us that it was often said that he received very good guidance from his family. Perhaps, in Poyet’s case, his fathers success provided him with everything he needed apart from the hunger to succeed.
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Such a shame
Not sure if we will have anyone as talented as him come through our youth set up again, or at least for a while. A once in a generation sort of player.
Crazy.
As you say the talent was clearly there, so that leaves his desire/workrate.
Baffling how his career went backwards after that, and the strange moves to South America and Cyprus
Oh well.
Surprised he hasn't even managed to find something in the lower leagues.
It is the complete opposite of a Jamie Vardy. Poyet is the privately educated son of a former professional footballer and manager as against the lad who was discarded because he was too small and ended up working in a factory and playing part time. The fire was still burning for Vardy because he had a point to prove and continues to do so because he has witnessed what the alternatives were for him.