11 Football Manager stars who sadly flopped in the Premier League in real life

Your club that buys a player you have signed earlier on Football Manager is one of the great pleasures of life – but as Arsenal, Tottenham and Newcastle United know, among other things, it does not always end well.

If, like us, you have spent the best part of your adolescent and early 20s years of religious championship or football manager, you will know everything about the various Wonderkids who have adorned the game.

The landing of a young prospect at the start of the game and then forming your team around him is the best of the game, and sometimes those players also become stars in the real world.

However, others have ended up in the Premier League and have crushed all our dreams.

An incredible bargain at football manager 2003, Kallstrom could be beaten for less than a million pounds from Djurgarden and would soon be worth ten times more.

His goalkeeper teammate Andreas Isaksson was not half bad either.

In honesty, Kallstrom enjoyed six seasons in Lyon and won more than 100 caps for Sweden in real life.

But it was only when he was 231 that fans saw him the Premier League Grace when Arsene Wenger brought him in a six -month loan from Spartak Moscow in January 2014.

Yet it made its lack of impact no less disappointing.

Touched by injuries, the spell of Kallstrom in North Londs can be submitted under the 'Blink and you will miss the category' because he was only shown three times in the competition, although he scored a crucial FA Cup fine against reading.

It says a lot about the time of Vanden Borre in England that he is best remembered because of his role in a classic Chris Kamara -Blooper on football on Saturday.

You have all seen the clip now. Jeff Stelling asks Kammy what is going in Fratton Park and he is a bit further, completely not aware of the fact that Vanden Borre was sent.

They are vintage things.

Anyway, while colleague football manager Wonderkids Vincent Kompany and Romelu Lukaku continued to larger and better things after leaving other stitches in real life, those forming years were the best for the original AVB.

The original and best, Bakayoko was a wonderful championship manager 97/98, so imagine what it should have been to be an Everton fan when they signed him from Montpellier in 1998.

And imagine what it should have been to be an Everton fan when the signature of £ 4.5 million – when not peanuts – scored only four goals in 23 games in the Premier League that season was sold after just a year to Marseille.

Also a legend at the game of 97/98 was also quite productive in real life, and scored 36 goals in three seasons for Karlsruher in the Bundesliga.

The South African was even quickly followed a German passport, so his promise was, so when Liverpool signed him in June 1998, fans could be forgiven because they were excited.

And they could have been forgiven that they felt a bit disappointed when Dundee made only three replacement performances in the Premier League that season, which did not score before he was immediately sent back to Germany with Stuttgart.

Read: Sean Dundee: I was not fit enough in Liverpool; I should have worked harder

Dimitar Berbatov is the largest player of Bulgaria this millennium at a distance, but if FM05 was something to pass, it was Bojinov who was the superstar of his country in waiting.

You might not be Sven Goran-Erikssson if the archetypal FM player is hit, but apparently he brought Bojinov to Manchester City in 2007, together with other FM super stars Elano and Geovanni.

However, injury problems teased the time of Bojinov in Manchester and he managed only one Premier League goal of 11 trips in the top flight for an unfulfilled three-year period.

Kylian Mbappe has adopted the tag 'Next Thierry Henry' and ran with it for Les Bleus, but according to FM08 Saivet was the next to become the next Superstar striker of French football.

Blessed with frightening statistics for speed and gear and finish, Saivet was ready to start on the wing before he was again modeled as a central striker on FM, a la mr VA-VA-Voom itself.

By the time he ended up in Newcastle about seven years later, he had become a kind of all main trades midfielder not completely a winger, but not entirely a central midfielder.

Rafa didn't like him and went on.

FM Wonderkids are not only all the playmakers of Fancy-Dan or goals, you know? Sometimes you can come across a young keeper with the talent to stay around for a decade or longer.

Unfortunately, it seems that we will never see the famous FM legend Igor Akinfeev in England, but Argentinian Shot stopper Ustari was the next best thing on FM08.

At that time he was in Getafe in Spain, but a ridiculously low release clause connected to an Italian passport made it very easy to pick it up.

Sunderland finally took a point in real life in 2014, but Vito Mannone kept him out of the side.

There was no better striker to break at championship manager 01/02 than Aghahowa, who owned the ultimate 20/20 combo for pace and gear. He was electric.

Not only was the Nigerian striker blessed with 100m runner speed, he was also a deadly finisher if he received the right service.

He spent a decade in Shakhtar Donetsk over two spells, but in between there was a fateful stint with Wigan.

Aghahowa could not score any goal during a period of a year and a half with the Latics. That is an even worse return than Conor Sammon Fyi managed.

The first port of approach at Championship Manager 01/02 was to go to the Player Search Bar, type 'Taribo West' and type a Wad-Load virtual money to him to become a member of your club.

At the time, West, known for his rather different hairstyle choices, was a free agent after he had seen his contract with AC Milan. In the game he was a defensive colossus.

In his peak years, West was a player of some reputation, won the Olympic Games with Nigeria and both Milan clubs represented.

But it is reasonable to say that his short period with Derby County in the season that they were banned will not be remembered as one of the better spells of his career.

Read: an ode to Taribo West: CM Legend & Henry's 'Toughest Tegenponent'

He may have the turning circle of a cruise ship, but Fazio has career a pretty successful career in Europe after he had left his native Argentina as a teenager.

However, if there is one spot on his CV, it is his time in Tottenham, where his lack of pace and mobility was associated with a tendency to commit the strange disastrous mistake, he meant that he did not settle in the Mauricio Pochettino team.

Perhaps the scouting department of Spurs decided to give him a chance after he played with him at FM because he was Rock-Solid for Seville in the 2008 version of the game.

Another of the fast winger/striker variety, Norwegian Braaten was hot ownership on cm 03/04 just before he made his large switch to Rosenborg.

Braaten eventually moved to England in 2007 and joined Bolton Wanderers for a meager £ 450,000. Fans of football manager could not believe how little the trotters paid for this gaming god.

There was a reason why Bolton of course got him cheaply; He just wasn't that good.

Braaten only played 14 times for Bolton, but he did much better in French football and became five seasons for Toulouse.

Read more: Where are they now? The best XI of Wonderkids in World Football by Football Manager 2015

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