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Originally Posted by KingEros
For that, you have a certain Mr Houllier to blame ... Pongolle & Le Tallac (another pair of cousins apparently, though one black & one white) were once the greatest French prospects at age-group level but after getting them in, he just did not have the thing in him to nurture them to greater heights ... his only way of that was to loan them out to the cellar teams in the French league, even when they did well there, they couldn't take the hustle & bustle of the English game. On the contrary, Rafa more than welcome his young second-stringers to go out on loan ... but to the Championship sides, where life is almost without flair but just hustle & bustle. 
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I do feel Ponogolle was good, but it just seem Rafa do not like him, or not very happy with his contribution though, as for LeTallac, did remember he make a pass to Garcia for that goal against Juve in that CL match??? hopefully I got it right haha..Le Tallac did play in Sunderland team that was relegrated from EPL.
Both of them was hot prospects, and was performing so well in the age-group games for France, with Ponogolle among the top scorer right?
In fact, most of Houllier import is either gone, or on loan somewhere.....