There are certain players who
were great up until they met a certain manager and everything just started
going downhill from there. In this video, we want to look at some of such guys. Here are
10 footballers who were ruined by their managers. And who better to start with
than Yaya Toure? This guy was ruined by the same manager at 2 different clubs. Toure was at Barcelona when Pep
became coach in 2008. And what did Pep do? He brought in Sergio Busquets
from the youth team and relegated Toure. Then in 2010, Pep sold him to Manchester
City where Yaya began to find himself and show his worth again. He was so good that
he was named African footballer of the year for 4 consecutive years between 2011 and 2014.
He was also named in the PFA Team of the Year for the 2011-12 and 2013-14 seasons, and
was Man City Player of the Year in 2014. At this point, Yaya Toure was sure to
end his career as a Man City legend, but the club hired Pep Guardiola
in 2016, and the entire story began to change. From playing 32 Premier
League games in the 2015-16 season, Yaya’s numbers dropped to 25 in the 2016-17
season and then 10 in the 2017-18 season. Yaya eventually left in 2018, but surely not
in the manner he would have loved to leave a club he helped win so much. And all that
was simply down to Pep and how he used him. But Yaya was not Pep’s only victim, Joe Hart was, too. Back then, the Celtic goalie
was Man City and England’s number 1, but Pep joined City in 2016 and relegated
him to the bench from the very first game. And Joe Hart wasn’t just anybody. This was a guy
who had won 4 Premier League Golden Gloves before Pep arrived. He was also named in the PFA Team
of the Year in the 2009-10 and 2011-12 seasons. But Pep didn’t care about all of that, he
relegated Hart to the bench and then loaned him to Torino just months after he became
City manager. After a year in the Serie A, he sent him on loan to West Ham. Then
in 2018, he finally sold him to Burnley, and from there, he moved to Spurs
in 2020 and then Celtic in 2021. The moment Pep arrived at Man
City, Joe Hart’s career began to crumble and the former England number
1 was not able to survive it. I mean, this is a guy with the joint-most Golden
Gloves in Premier League history. He should be up there as a Premier League legend, but he’s
not remembered as such because of you know who. And it’s like Mikel Arteta learned from
his mentor, because what he did to Mesut Ozil was Pepesque. Ozil who had helped
Arsenal end their trophy drought in 2014, finished as Premier League assist leader and
Arsenal Player of the Year in the 2015-16 season, started feeding on crumbs when Arteta was hired. In the 2020-21 season, Ozil was left out of
Arsenal’s Premier League and Europa League squads for the season. So, Ozil, a World Cup winner,
was eligible to play for just the under-23 side. He was really disappointed, so he
left in January 2021 and moved to Turkey to join Fenerbahce. He stayed
there for a year and half and then moved to Istanbul Basaksehir where he
retired in March 2023 at the age of 34. A legend like Ozil should have
had a more graceful exit from football than he got but Arteta denied him that. And guess who denied Diego Costa – Antonio Conte. Diego Costa peaked at Chelsea. He helped
them win 2 Premier League titles during his time there and made it to the PFA
Team of the Year in the 2014-15 season. But after helping Chelsea win the Premier League
in 2017, Conte sent the Spanish striker a text telling him he was no longer needed at the club.
What quickly followed was Costa being banished from the first team and being excluded from the
Champions League squad for the 2017-18 season. Costa eventually left the club in September
2017 and rejoined Atletico Madrid, but he was never able to reach those heights
anymore. He moved to Brazil to join Atletico Mineiro in 2021 and then moved back
to the Premier League to join Wolves in 2022, but nothing has been the same
since his altercation with Conte. Meanwhile, you could say that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
was responsible for ruining Donny van de Beek. The Dutchman was a crucial part of that famed
Ajax squad that reached the semi-final of the Champions League in 2019, but he moved to
United in 2020 and it was like he was a nobody. After spending 40 million pounds on him, Ole
decided not to use him – 4 Premier League starts in his first season and none at all in
his second. Eventually, VDB was loaned out to Everton in January 2022, but injuries have had
the better of him since then. He’s back in United, but it already feels like the boy’s
career is done even though he’s just 26. Another player who was a victim of a Man United
coach was Radamel Falcao. Back in the early 2010s, Falcao was one of the deadliest strikers
in Europe, and when he moved to United in the summer of 2014, we all – including
Cristiano Ronaldo himself – thought he was going to tear things apart in England,
but Louis van Gaal had other ideas. On his debut, the fans at Old
Trafford cheered loudly for Falcao, little did they know that LvG had other
plans for the Colombian. Little by little, the Dutchman started reducing his game time, and
then in March 2015, van Gaal had relegated him to the under-21s, a move which drew criticism from
huge footballing figures including Diego Maradona. It was generally a demeaning and
humiliating spell for a man who is one of the greatest strikers of his generation. Another Colombian who suffered similar
treatment elsewhere is James Rodriguez. Carlo Ancelotti loved him so much and
brought him over to Real Madrid in 2014, but after the Italian was sacked, James
was relegated to the bench by Zidane. This made Ancelotti, then coach of Bayern, bring James over on a 2-year loan.
But after the loan spell was over, Zidane still refused to use him at Madrid, so when
Ancelotti moved to Everton, he signed him again. James enjoyed his first season in England, But
Carlo left him there and returned to Real Madrid in 2021, and it seemed like James Rodriguez just
couldn’t survive without his favorite manager. So, you could say this was something of a joint effort. Zidane didn’t fancy him and
Ancelotti left him high and dry. Another Real Madrid midfielder who suffered
under Ancelotti was Isco. Although the Spanish midfielder was Ancelotti’s first ever signing as
Real Madrid boss, during his second stint at the club, the gaffer no longer had use for him, so
Isco was forced to say goodbye to Real Madrid. Since being sidelined by Ancelotti, Isco
has not been able to find his feet again. He joined Sevilla in August 2022, and in
September, his contract was terminated. He was supposed to move to
Union Berlin in January, but that fell through, so
now Isco is without a club. Then there’s Gareth Bale who Zidane just didn’t
like for some reason. Despite the Welshman being one of the most important players in Madrid’s
European domination between 2014 and 2018, Zidane just didn’t fancy him and
always tended to sideline him. The whole thing eventually blew out of proportion
and the relationship between the club and the player completely broke down. Bale didn’t care
anymore, and it was very obvious. He would sleep off on the bench, refuse to join his teammates
in celebrating trophies, and then THAT flag. Anyway, Bale finally left the
club in June 2022. He moved to LAFC in the MLS where he played
until he retired in January 2023. Now, to wrap up this list, we have Dele
Alli. The lad was Spurs and England’s golden boy until Jose Mourinho
was hired to coach Spurs in 2019. In 2020, Alli fell out of favor with Mourinho
and started seeing less and less game time and that was when he began to fall off. After
Mou was sacked, Nuno tried to reintegrate Alli into the squad, but he, too, was sacked
before the midfielder could hit top form again. Antonio Conte came in and, just like Mourinho, he
didn’t fancy Alli, so he was sold to Everton in January 2022, and that’s where everything
totally crumbled. He was bad at Everton so they loaned him to Besiktas just 8 months
after he joined. The Turkish club then tried to cancel his loan deal midseason, and when they
couldn’t, they banished him from the first team. Will Dele Alli ever hit top form again? Who knows? But who are the other players that were ruined by
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