I know it’s more of a gaming question than a football question. I have recently started playing football games again and there are those young players with the comment „has potential to be special“ or „an interesting prospect“.
Especially those that aren’t stars already like Musiala, Haaland or Pedri.
Players like currently Arda Güler, Gavi, Antonio Nusa, Ansu Fati or Youssoufa Moukoko.
The question/discussion I wanted to spark is which of those players that you remember from the past didn’t actually become stars/good players, or even, which players rated very low by the games in their early careers did become actually good players.
Around 2019-2021 Houssem Aouar was FIFA’s favorite boy. In career mode he had like 90-91 potential and in Ultimate Team he was always getting those crazy good special cards, with insane all-around stats. The fact that he offerred a green link to Mbappe, or other popular guys like Kimpembe and Ben Yedder and his cards were pretty much the best midfielder in the game, made him extremely popular and some people actually believed he was gonna be world class irl as well.
Nowadays he is an okay-ish player, sometimes starting and sometimes getting benched for Roma. He also just changed his nationality to Algerian, so he could play a little in the NT as well.