This Falloff Is Crazy

[@seidrondaer2093]

He was injured going into the World Cup. The manager pushed him to play, aggravated his injury against the advice of LFC's medical team. Keita never recovered.

[@Pikabo0]

Thought it was AFCON? Regardless, his knee issues popped up significantly more after that. He'd string together two good games before getting hurt again

[@MrSchmekel]

@@Pikabo0must have been afcon, Guinea have never been close to making the WC

[@louistyrer18]

Good.

[@jonnyvelocity]

I think it was the president who said if he doesn’t play he would never play for them again.

[@LiftandCoa]

Zealand could have prevented that falloff if not for that cataclysmic knee injury wait, wrong channel

[@benjaminduah8812]

Though it was an ACL tear😂

[@ImLivingVictoriously]

You are not watching FNG

[@4_celsius]

CANT GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD

[@dasadman]

What's the context behind the FNG knee injury meme?

[@victorsioufi7142]

​@@dasadmanHe always claims he would've been a professional footballer if it wasn't for his injuries. It's a common thing to say. If it wasn't for the injury I had in highschool I would've made it pro is the typical thing your delusional uncle would say

[@CommanderRion]

As added context for his time on Werder Bremen: Werder is a team that has always been known for prefering team synergy over individual star power. Especially now after we got relegated and got back up to the Bundesliga, the team has become more than the sum of its parts over time. We barely had any big roster changes since 2022/23 season (except the big loss of Füllkrug ofc) and it shows, the team is playing better than statistics would allow. Naby Keita never meshed with the team, hes a bit of a diva and as Zealand said probably expected to be a "star player" when Werder doesnt really give a shit about this kind of stuff. Heck, Marvin Ducksch, our "star striker" constantly underperforms, barely scores goals, has catastrophic ball losses every once in a while but he is still 100% set for the starting eleven because he is still an integral part of the "team synergy", so that should show you how much more this matters than individual skill. What Zealand alluded to with Keitas boycott was the away game to Leverkusen in 2023/24. Keita refused to get on the team bus because, according to him, it was a worthless match to play anyway. And it kind of was, we lost 0:5 and it gave Leverkusen the early Meisterschaft by points. This had never happend before in the history of the team, so naturally management just straight up removed him from the roster and said we will sell you as soon as possible.

[@maba1503]

The pure fact that Keita wont even make the starting eleven at FTC adds to this story😅 they got him for the bench

[@skrinyarzsombor8083]

he definetely makes the 11 as a hungarian. He just needs to build his fitness up

[@fairphoneuser9009]

@@skrinyarzsombor8083 Well. That's the point. He doesn't.

[@eavyeavy2864]

Another kid younger than Minecraft players adding 'fact' adding 'fact'/tru / real/raw/ pure to their comment to feel better and get likes from other kid

[@arianf3301]

@@fairphoneuser9009 we'll see lol

[@maqpi8335]

I never thought Keita was bad at Liverpool. I always enjoyed his game and he did score some goals.I am really saddened that he couldnt live up to his potential though.

[@calgon5689]

He had like a good 6-9 months getting starts with goals and assists. But then constant injuries kept him from getting any meaningful game time to make any impact, but by then the team had evolved. They would've gotten rid the season before if they could agree but guess he was happy on a good wage.

[@spsawyer22]

He played well for LFC...he was just hurt ALL the time.

[@xxazzlaackxx8467]

As a Werder Bremen fan i was so hyped when this transfer happend i really believed he could return to his old self

[@joedonnelly387]

With all due respect anyone being hyped to sign Keita off the back of his injury record at Liverpool was guaranteed to be disappointed😭😭legs of breadsticks mate he was finished from day 1

[@CentreHalfBack]

King Kazu is still playing in Japan. He is 50 years old and then some.

[@OhJustSomeRandomGuy]

Yeah, but he's just out there as a novelty on a fourth-tier side. He hasn't scored a goal since 2022. Shows up on a bunch of commercials, though. Like, I've seen his TV spots more than literally any other Japanese players, combined.

[@CentreHalfBack]

@OhJustSomeRandomGuy facts and data in a Zealandism comment? What sorcery is this?

[@redbuIIracing33]

He is 57 years old.

[@tutuatoa]

At the opposite side of this type of story, you should read and talk about the comeback story and hero status of Memphis Depay at Corinthians. Is amazing how sometimes there are this stories about a player whos leaves his pride “kinda” behind and goes to outside of the main leagues or big teams and ends up becoming a hero! You should do a video on him 😊

[@Drigallski]

moral of the story: FM needs to make Mental attributes matter more.

[@troytheboy1985]

And have injuries actually effect players

[@venturer9400]

I've seen players retire early because they go some time without finding a new club and they collapse during that time. But that should honestly happen when they're rotting on the bench and don't have good mentals and hidden attributes

[@sehu1291]

​@@venturer9400chris kramer is still free agent. German who played in the WC final 2014 in the starting line up for Germany and became World Champion. He is only 33 now and no club wan't him despite he said he will play for no money. He said in the podcast there is maybe not really a market in europe for 30+ players. But rumours said Miroslav Klose who is now coach at Nuernberg will maybe gave his old WC teammate an contract

[@k1llz0ne64]

In my fm save a journalist named Naby Keita spawned in once the actual Keita retired, wish I could actually check his details

[@1whippple1]

There was so much hype and excitement for Keita when he joined, we agreed the deal but had to wait an entire season for him to join. Then Fabinho signs, there were no rumors or stories beforehand, he wasn’t picked for months and then overnight became one of our most important players while Keita became a squad player. Keita wasn’t bad but I was very surprised how those two signings turned out.

[@BiaZarr]

"That's why no 50 year olds are playing" except for King Kazu. My man. I keep saying that I am not old as long as there are professional footballers older than me, and King Kazu is singlehandedly ensuring that i won't be old for a long, long time

[@caseysilkwood47]

Funny you specifically mentioned Millie in reference to pros being a different animal... I got to see Liverpool and Roma in St. Louis, Mo in 2016 and out of everyone on the pitch (including Mo Salah and Coutinho), James is the one seared in my memory. Just the way the ball sounded off of his foot when he took a corner really spelled out loud and clear how far off of that level I was in my so-called "prime" (NAIA). He will always be my favorite pro no matter which club he is a part of.

[@therealking6202]

That's so cool...the sound of the ball off their foot....Great detail. (To be clear, I just mean having a specific memory like that. I completely understand what you mean).

[@afrofantom6631]

james milner: your favorite pro's favorite pro.

[@josephborreggine6421]

Salah wasn’t at LFC until summer 2017 so maybe you are talking about Mane

[@caseysilkwood47]

@@josephborreggine6421 Nope, he was playing for AS Roma. I can't remember if Mane was on that tour or not.

[@bastage5932]

There actually is one active professional footballer who is older than 50. Kazuyoshi Miura, who's signed to Yokohama FC but is on loan at Atletico Suzuka. He's actually closer to 60 than 50, at age 57.

[@darthdonkulous1810]

Everyone here already knows that.

[@McPilch]

He was also known as the first player to take Stevie G's #8 at Liverpool, he was that well thought of.

[@swardasaurus]

ferencvaros signing naby keita sounds like such a fm signing.

[@Heyhey7764-e8s]

thanks for stretching this 2min video to 13min29 !

[@benjaminwollner9092]

That forehead is not 28 years old...

[@JPayne95]

😂

[@klogott3462]

28 Square Meters

[@MattMcMatt]

Shoutout to Kazuyoshi Miura still playing at 57

[@GamerFrisco]

Kevin De Bryune would be a main character in a football reality tv show. He has that box office appeal of greatness. Injurerd then🏆 , injured then 🏆 just thought of this But just thought of 115 as well...

[@timopint1125]

he is doing a reverse Robert Andrich LOL

[@ninjalectualx]

I remember Keita for knocking Atletico out of the Champions League on a random worldie 😭😭😭

[@zorkoro]

its astronomically criminal to be this early to daddy zealand

[@DanCoffee]

I have seen Keita play in Leipzig in the flesh. The guy was worth every penny then, and I thought he would be the PERFECT fit for Klopp's Liverpool.

[@wilhelmh9495]

Have a friend who played with him. Said he had never met anyone in football with so many demons as Keita. His words.

[@incogneeto5624]

When Naby Keïta signed for LFC, I genuinely thought he'd tie up the entire midfield and attack single handedly, and win them titles. He was so good, he was just what LFC missed, and he was young. As a United-Supporter, I thought it was over for the next decade. Then he arrived, and he was just mid. And then he was gone.

[@earl.c]

When Liverpool had their post-Coutinho shopping spree, I was more excited for him than for Virgil and Alisson. Sad! Many such cases.

[@headswillroll89]

I was pumped for vvd. And thought naby was going to be the next kante too.. sad but we aren't immune to seeing this, I always look up how dele is going

[@mezykin]

Naby Keita was basically the African Alberto Aquilani

[@miguelmercieca1043]

Another fall off shoutout is Arthur Melo

[@dasadman]

Wasn't he doing well at Fiorentina at one point?

[@Holton.Valente]

I hope Deli Alli can return to his former glory. He is so entertaining to watch and I hope he plays in the prem again

[@szilardenyedi2855]

Added context: Ferencváros is the favored team of the Hungarian government. Their budget is 4 times of the other government favored teams (Puskás Akadémia, Újpest) and 8-10 times of the rest. Their main income is basically the tax payer's money given in various forms e.g. sponsoration (main sponsor is the national electricity provider, MVM). They are also known for doing some money laundering with transfers - it's basically an open secret that they try to sign as many players as possible, because the management of the club is running some shady dark business with the agents, essentially stealing money.For this reason they do 10-15 transfers every single year and the squad is so large that they can't even register all their players for the competitions, so many new signings end up rotting on the bench for years without a single match played.

[@MaGGoTs91]

aha :)

[@alexanderbanse]

One think that must be added is that Keita got chances at Bremen. But either didn't use them or got injured for another 2 months after each game he got minutes. In the games he played he was the slowest player in the whole league, played selfish and caused catastrophic ball losses. You could see that he was the best player on the pitch on a technical level but couldn't keep up with the physical game of the bundesliga or professional football in general

[@mikesimon1867]

some people lose a lot of confidence and can never recover despite there ability. Injuries can derail your confidence, and in turn, your career

[@Brandon-qd2lb]

How come we don’t get a CONMEBOL qualifier review?

[@MarcosGarcia-pj3pq]

Speaking of fall offs what happened to the chocolate turtles

[@lfcStu93]

Not only did we pay 60m we paid 60m to sign him the following year 😂😂😂

[@arnavchauhan843]

0 views 1 minute the falloff needs to be studied

[@varulven3206]

Honestly Ferencvaros is a huge step forward compared to Werder Bremen and i can say that as a German who is regularly following Hungarian football

[@adoc4015]

how so?

[@JPayne95]

He absolutely dominated united and i thought we had finally replaced gerrards tenacity and guile, then he fell apart 😢

[@dc6521]

I remember a friend of mine who was a big liverpool fan, really hyping up keita at the time he was first signed. If only he knew.

[@themog4911]

Naby Keita is made of paper.

[@willster947]

He was injured for 2 years, the fall off is completely expected! Same happened to Torres who couldn’t stat fight before Chelsea bought him.

[@olivertreumann9667]

torres never left the top level tho

[@dscwac396]

He was a menace in Germany, injuries kill anyone's career he was clearly talented look at his rb Leipzig highlights he was actions per 90 animal

[@ilekomplikacji]

with situations like this and the age argument - -> it always blows my mind even more how LeBron is able to keep up at this age, even though for the last almost a decade it was "is it THIS season?" it's probably finally THIS season for him, when he turns 40 in the next couple weeks..

[@stevendchu]

Keita was and always will be Klopp's ONLY flop and biggest mistake when it came to transfers. He got hooked before HT vs Real Madrid and barely featured again in the 2021 COVID season, yet Klopp decided to keep faith in him and not sign another CM to replace the departing Gini Wijnaldum. Keita's lack of availability DIRECTLY tied into Fabinho and Henderson being ran into the ground, they would play almost every game from 2019-2022. If Klopp and the board decide to cut losses and sign a new CM sooner, Klopp probably leaves with 1 more PL title.

[@Haaton-of-the-Basement]

Weder Bremen did not enjoy this transfer at the end.

[@filmawang69]

you got a big head

[@R3RS2024]

Ferencvaros is a very solid europa league team, I'd argue we would actually do quite well In champions league, I think we would finish around 24-28 much better then Bratislava or young boys. But the Hungarian league yea is a joke 🤣

[@akosbogar1885]

The biggest problem is that the Hungarian economy can only support 1 international cup team. Now a change is starting in the league, but their budget is six times more than any Hungarian team.

[@maxl.b.m.y.g.5918]

You should talk about the Juan Soto contract even though it’s not football/soccer

[@Galantus1964]

the falloff from quite a few of the " big" players that wanted to leave /left during the klopp era, have been total flops..

[@shadowwwwsss]

28 ? What in the Joseph Minala is this ?

[@imreallybased]

I'm not surprised, water finds its level. Naby has only had a handful of good games since 2018 and was one of Pool's worse ever signings when adding in the fee. His last years at Liverpool were an unmitigated disaster, the shot against Real in the CL Final is burned into my memory. I'm shocked that anybody was willing to pay him legitimate wages to "play" at this point, Werder made a huge mistake by not paying attention to his stint on Merseyside

[@HonestTom1892]

Naby won it all at Liverpool.

[@CR0SSJ]

Keita's down fall happened when he took a shot rather than passing through for Firmino in the champions league final when LFC were 1-0 down to Real Madrid. Klopp thought fuck this guy for sure at that moment

[@dasadman]

That particular game caused the downfall of not just one, but two. Keita and Karius

[@jimwilson6449]

I don't believe his on-record age is his actual correct age

[@AntonioYatJr]

The pulisic comparison is just straight out idiotic was 24 when he wants to is almost 30. Pulisic with his national team, even when he was with Chelsea.

[@CallumWatson-jp9xq]

He was probably 15 years older than his passport suggests.

[@ninjalectualx]

Between Keita and Minamino, Liverpool hasn't done well with Red Bull system players

[@IVIichael0994]

Szoboszlai and Konate would like a word

[@kyledittman8408]

@@IVIichael0994so would minamino tbf to him

[@asuhdude6668]

@@kyledittman8408 Minamino was never ever good enough to be a front line starter for Liverpool. He was a bargain buy, which is so very typical of FSG. I did like Minamino though off the bench.

[@cetusz_maximus2]

I am Hungarian (not FTC fan or any other). This signing is marked as the second coming of Jesus. "Champions League winner has chosen FTC"

[@akosbogar1885]

És a sajtót leszámítva mindenki tudja, hogy kurva nagy pofára esés lesz belőle. Jön az első kecskeméti védő, vagy a pafc-ból a Szolnoki és egy évig kaphatja a táppénzt.

[@D4NNY98.]

You have to make a Jesse Lingard video similar situation to Keita

[@maguritang]

Jesus. Zealand is only 28? I thought he was like early to mid 30s...

[@samuelgore202]

Z: Ferencvaros might make the conference league... They're above Roma, Man Utd and Porto in the Europa league.

[@akosbogar1885]

Since 2019, they have been out in one of the international cups every year. Before that, Videoton (Now Fehérvár fc) was also in the Europa league and DVSC was in the international cup (Champions League).

[@Bill_Gamesh]

Reece James should get the same treatment in my opinion

[@bartterp88]

I'm a Liverpool fan and I never thought Keita was that great. He was this silent "engine" around the midfield with no special abilities whatsoever. Then again, this video is still relevant even though he wasn't that spectacular at Liverpool.

[@calgon5689]

He performed highly inconsistent. The only consistency were his injuries.

[@cklambo]

So just like Hendo then

[@imreallybased]

When a 98 year old Milner, washed Henderson/Fabinho and Ox with one leg are all ahead of you in the Midfield pecking order at age 27... Maybe you are just a shite player

[@ISSaloia]

He's at least 35

[@basedjenny7362]

Messi could still play a role on Barca

[@matteoDiRubbo]

What are you talking about? This stuff happens all the time… look at Renato Sanchez at Roma, Arthur at any team he’s been after Barca

[@alexteoli3378]

I mean look at Lorius Karius. What happened ro him is so sad. Just want ro have him a pat on the back and tell him its okay.

[@nickjeffery536]

No 50-year-olds playing? Is Kazu Miura a joke to you, Zealand??? Seriously, look up Kazuyoshi Miura, still doing it at 57...

[@OhJustSomeRandomGuy]

He's not just a joke to Z, he's a joke to everyone. Playing for a 4th tier side in Japan, hasn't scored a goal since 2022. He's just a novelty.

[@jepulis6674]

Sry to be an asshole but is this again the -3 years thing that can happen in certain regions? Would make a lot more sense as players rarely just vanish in their mid 20's.

[@Ganganuk]

Dele alli comes to mind

[@jord.an6123]

@@Ganganuk Dele should be respected for even managing to hold a job, let alone be a brilliant pro-footballer for a few years, considering what he's been through. I dont think its appropriate to use him as an example of a player who fell off. More the mental trauma of his youth caught up with him, than "falling off".

[@Funboihahaha]

Dele Ali :(

[@kmir1791]

fell off comments fell off

[@matthewhernandez8342]

We had fall off comments falling off before GTA 6

[@robwashers]

just because u would have signed him on a free :P

[@OfficialSatelliteMan]

Keita is the worst player I’ve legitimately ever seen. He makes Salif Diao, Yacouba Sylla and Danny Graham look like world class ballers.

[@ahmedfariheen4881]

wait. u're 28? same as me? what, i'm not gonna be rude and getting the karma on saying what is going on inside my mind

[@benjaminguzman3428]

Keita was voted most disappointing player in the Bundesliga by the players when he was at Bremen!

[@skully5473]

falloff of this channel is crazy

[@AholeAtheist]

I've never heard this man's name come out of anyone's mouth but Zealand's.

[@NewDealDem2187]

You seem weird

[@dasadman]

Wdym? Keita had massive potential when he was at Leipzig

[@CommanderRion]

As a Werder Fan we heard his name way more times than we wanted in the last year. What a complete waste of money and time.

[@AholeAtheist]

@@NewDealDem2187 I am. Just not Republican/conservative/fascist weird.

[@ew7339]

0 views 48 seconds bro fell off

[@eavyeavy2864]

Not Liverpool player, clickbait dislike

[@amarezzedine]

4 views is crazy bro u fell off 💔

[@lautarop4995]

Keita was always shit at Liverpool, so there is no falloff, just terrible scouting from Edwards & Co. I would go to say it was negligence from them, not even close to the level needed for a team that needed to push 100 points to have a chance to win a league.

[@briang2471]

Hate to say it, but there arent many players in the world you could add to Liverpool for 60 Mil or less in 2019 for them to hit 100 pts. He was probably a 30M player + PL tax + The inflation in the market by Neymar and Mbappe to PSG for 222 and 180M. Nobody could have predicted his downfall, he was awesome in the bundesliga.

[@williamcross210]

you really know nothing

[@lautarop4995]

@briang2471 In the 2018/19 season Leandro Paredes went to PSG for 40M, Paqueta to Milan for 38,4M, Fabián Ruiz to Napoli for 30M, James Maddison to Leicester for 25M, Rodrigo Hernández to Atlético Madrid for 20M (!!!!), Yves Bissouma to Brighton for 16,8M, and Giorgian de Arrascaeta to Flamengo for 15M. i gave a wide range of skill sets that maybe weren't what Liverpool wanted and/or needed, but every player here had a better carrer since 18/19 in comparison to Keita. No excuses.

[@briang2471]

@lautarop4995 hindsight is always 20/20 though. I do agree though that Liverpools transfer record wasn't great there for a few years and still has work to do but Gakpo, Luis, and Mac have been key to where they sit now.

[@imreallybased]

@@briang2471 When accounting for his future wages, the consistent injuries and the International spot he wasted while being in the squad, Liverpool was better off setting the 60M on fire than paying RB 60M for Keita.

[@chokez5175]

1sec no views bro fell off

[@prakharmathur9453]

The fall off is crazy

[@sufedyjani]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 so funny 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@jsjdhjsk]

4 comments in 5 minutes bro fell off