The 10 most overhyped footballers of all time

#8 – Bojan Krkic

Bojan exploded onto the scene at Barcelona....but then failed miserably at Stoke City

Barcelona have produced plenty of world-class players in the last decade or so, and it’s basically a proven fact that if you can break through into the first team at the Nou Camp, you’re probably destined for a legendary career. Unfortunately, that hasn’t proven to be the case for Spanish-Serbian striker Bojan Krkic, who showed such promise in his early years that he broke Lionel Messi’s record of being the youngest player to appear for Barca in a league game.

In October 2007 he became Barca’s youngest ever league goalscorer, and then in April 2008, he became the first player born in the 1990s to score a goal in the Champions League. It seemed that the sky was the limit for Bojan, but by 2008/09 he fell down in the pecking order and also fell out with new Barcelona boss Pep Guardiola. A move to Roma was supposed to kickstart his career, but it didn’t work and he wound up on loan at Milan and Ajax to little success.

In 2014/15 he made a surprising move to Stoke City in the Premier League, but somehow he struggled to even establish himself there, and he spent the majority of last season on loan at Mainz 05 and is now on loan at Alaves. He’s still just 27 years old, but it looks like his potential is long gone, and he remains one of the most overhyped players of all time.