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What has happened to Diego Poyet?

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  • paulie8290
    paulie8290 Posts: 23,344
    Henry Irving said:

    But posh drawing

    Henry Irving said:

    Donny now winning

    Is Poyet playing for 1 of these??
  • LondonIrish
    LondonIrish Posts: 42
    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
  • colthe3rd
    colthe3rd Posts: 8,486
    Such a weird situation. You have to wonder what his mental state is like to end up like that as it definitely wasn't a lack of ability. 
  • paulsturgess
    paulsturgess Posts: 3,800
    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. 
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977
    paulsturgess said:
    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
  • FishCostaFortune
    FishCostaFortune Posts: 10,773
    edited February 2020
    paulsturgess said:
    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. 
  • Huskaris
    Huskaris Posts: 9,848
    LondonIrish said:
    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. 

    Crazy.
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,010
    paulsturgess said:
    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. 
  • mendonca
    mendonca Posts: 9,405
    He was a hard worker too. Badly advised by his Dad?
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977
    mendonca said:
    He was a hard worker too. Badly advised by his Dad?
    The opposite.  His dad wanted him to stay at Charlton as he was developing so well.
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  • Vincenzo
    Vincenzo Posts: 2,911
    What a waste. Can only imagine how different it would have been if he'd stayed at Charlton. 
  • LenGlover
    LenGlover Posts: 31,651
    Such a shame to see talent that many of us would love to be blessed with unfulfilled.
  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,126
    Swisdom said:
    paulsturgess said:
    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
    So did Frank Lampard. Doesn't mean anything.
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,344
    It's okay... The truth will come out... Allegedly.
  • Stefco
    Stefco Posts: 848
    He lost his powers when he cut his hair.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,844
    paulsturgess said:
    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
  • CL_Phantom
    CL_Phantom Posts: 5,513
    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. 

    Oh well.
  • Chunes
    Chunes Posts: 17,347
    Chris Dickson scored 19 goals in 24 games for Pafos, Poyet's last club. Just to give you an idea of the level out there. 
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,034
    For someone like me with 0 footballing talent it’s really frustrating to see someone with lots throw it away, his choice I guess.
  • Danny Addick
    Danny Addick Posts: 3,930
    paulsturgess said:
    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.
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  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    If only he had stayed with us a bit longer - his footballing career would have been such a different story. 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    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.
  • Chris_from_Sidcup
    Chris_from_Sidcup Posts: 36,010
    Chunes said:
    Chris Dickson scored 19 goals in 24 games for Pafos, Poyet's last club. Just to give you an idea of the level out there. 
    Dickson played for them in the second division. Poyet at least played in their top league. Pretty sure the level isn't great either way.
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,365
    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.
  • Huskaris
    Huskaris Posts: 9,848
    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. 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,767
    edited February 2020
    cafctom said:
    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.
    Huskaris said:
    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. 
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,034
    cafctom said:
    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. 
  • FishCostaFortune
    FishCostaFortune Posts: 10,773
    cafctom said:
    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.
    I personally don't think Poyet was fit to lace Gomez's boots. That's no slight on Poyet's ability, but after 5 minutes of seeing Gomez playing you could tell he would go on to be an international player.
  • I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY
    I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY Posts: 4,608
    How quick his decline was is the most baffling thing. Our POTY in may 2014 then not getting into the Huddersfield team in end of 2014 and then MK Dons team in 2015.
  • Sage
    Sage Posts: 7,278
    He’s a body builder now according to Sols.

    Such a waste of talent who seems to have completely lost any real desire to make it in the game. Sometimes making a living is the motivation, there’s no need for that with him. Sometimes due to previous success of a relative, especially a father, they’re not totally in love with the game to make a right go of their own career. Probably a lot of factors come into it, but sometimes no matter how talented someone may well be, they just aren’t cut out for what the professional game requires.

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