This is a player that everyone remembers as a total waste of space but, having recently re-watched the 2000/01 season review, I don't think he was that bad. He scored 12 goals in 36 appearences (some of which were quite spectacular), created goals as well and I think he would have built on that if he had been given another season of regular first team football but, for some reason, Glenn Hoddle preferred a 35 year old Teddy Sheringham and Rebrov never got a look in from that point.
If we compare him to Dennis Bergkamp, who got 16 goals in 41 appearances in his first season, Rebrov's first season isn't too far off that and, if we had kept on playing him, he could have improved and given us many years service just like Bergkamp did for Woolwich.
Yes, I know Rebrov didn't fare so well at the clubs he joined after us but some players find it very difficult to get their self-belief back once they lose it; some are able to bounce back once they're dropped, others aren't. Just off the top of my head, Illie Dumitrescu, Nigel Clough, Justin Fashanu all had promising careers until they had the misfortune to move to the wrong club or fall out of favour under the wrong manager and they were never able to wipe the Ls off their foreheads and get back to where they were before.
What do you guys think? Could Rebrov have been our Dennis Bergkamp if he had been given more time in the team? Did we shoot ourselves in the foot by casting him aside for Hoddle's OAPs?
If we compare him to Dennis Bergkamp, who got 16 goals in 41 appearances in his first season, Rebrov's first season isn't too far off that and, if we had kept on playing him, he could have improved and given us many years service just like Bergkamp did for Woolwich.
Yes, I know Rebrov didn't fare so well at the clubs he joined after us but some players find it very difficult to get their self-belief back once they lose it; some are able to bounce back once they're dropped, others aren't. Just off the top of my head, Illie Dumitrescu, Nigel Clough, Justin Fashanu all had promising careers until they had the misfortune to move to the wrong club or fall out of favour under the wrong manager and they were never able to wipe the Ls off their foreheads and get back to where they were before.
What do you guys think? Could Rebrov have been our Dennis Bergkamp if he had been given more time in the team? Did we shoot ourselves in the foot by casting him aside for Hoddle's OAPs?