Banter 2009/2010

Originally Posted by MilanMikey

What happened to all the hype around Kerlon? Around the time we were buying pato there was alot of hype about this kid he's a really great player and cheap.. plays for ajax now im pretty sure and is 21-22
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6Yj7GoXPZw

Poor boy... When he was promoted to Cruzeiro professional squad, had a terrible injure(a nasty broken ankle) and was out of the pitch for more than one year .

After come back to football, with just some months of play, had a Ronaldo like knee injure. One year out... Come back again and had another knee injure.

After that(recovery from the third big injure), saw him at Chievo. Today, I have my doubts his body(ankle and knees) can support the demands of professional football again.

Didn't know he is at Ajax, and I hope to be proved wrong(regarding his physical condition), because that was a impressive young player. Shame people that never saw him, used to bash the kid focusing on the so famous "seal dribble", and saying "this can't work in EPL, Serie A, La Liga"...

Kerlon was a amazing AMD with a very good work rate. His game was much more than that dribble. The only knock was his body(Deco's like), and if it wasn't for his 3 big injures, I have no doubt he would be shinning in Europe today.

Originally Posted by Rabia15

i think the young player who is called as Silva's heir is Rodrigo Ely...

I understood... I was talking about Gerson, because he is the 17yo CB that is hyped a lot at Grêmio, Rabia... Btw, never impressed me.
So, or we found a gem that even Grêmio's people didn't rate that high, or we did another questionable business in my Brazil.