The Downfall of Football Boots

I've bought a lot of boots in my time nearly 20 years playing twice a week, I've had them all, Pumka kings, Mercurials, F50s etc etc and I'm sorry but you cannot get 'good' boots for £50.

Those boots are intended for people who will play like 3 games one summer, chuck the boots in the cupboard and never look at them again. If you intend to actually use them regularly, the extra money does actually mean extra quality and durabillity. Something most don't know is that if any addidas or Nike boot fails within 2 years they wiill cover it under warranty. This year I got new Addidas preds and first I went for the £60 pair in white, the sole came away within a couple of months, returned them, got another pair, same problem! In the end I got them to send me the £200 boots (I paid a little extra but not the full whack, Addidas do 3 levels of the same boot, £50 to £200) and they are holding up great, well past the 6 month mark with these.

Samuel Etoo used to wear Puma boots

To be fair the Puma Future Z are pretty nice boots, except the latest ones apparently that destroyed Cucurella.

i thought we were going to talk about the quality and durability too. Because that's for me the NUMBER one change in the boots in the last 10 years. How 300 boots last for 6 month now??? it is really mad

No Rivaldo/Mizuno ??

How can you forget Aguero and Puma boots.

that outro hit me right in the childhood

Nike CTR 360 Maestri was the best football boot I've ever bought!

I still recognize the players on the pitch by their boots...it became harder now honestly, because they are not unique like that anymore :(

Nike mercurial vapor 7-13 prime years

Adidas have started cooking again with the f50s and fold over tongue preds ngl

The predator 98,2000,2002 were the elite

Tiempos were my favorite but used to own mostly f50

"Back in the day I was going on Aliexpress" is all one needs to hear to understand this is essentially a video made by a really young guy.

Those times you could name which boot every player was wearing. You would know when in the season there were a new pair of Mercurial.

The hype for boots really died out - especially during World Cup and Euro editions.

2008-2014 was peak Nike boots hype

Back in the day you’d walk into sports direct and there would be 20+ different boots. Now it’s the same handful that have been sitting there all year

T90

For christmas, I ordered the Adidas F50 Two Horizons :))

NAI-KEY. NOT NAIKE, WTF IS A NAIKE?

Total 90

predator and ctr 360 were so goated, i think the downfall was just caused by the rise of basketball shoes or sneakers cuz lots of ppl who doesnt even play or watch sports just buys them cause it looks cool to wear casually everyday

The 2010 Messi F50s purple yellow pearlescent are the most beautiful boots I've ever seen in my life. I was dying back in the day to get one of those.

My favourites
Nike CTR360 Maestri
Mizuno Wave Ignitus 2
Puma King
Copa Mundials
Nike Tiempo IV
Nike Premiers
Adidas Predator Mania/Accelerators/Powerpulse
Umbro Speciali
Nike Phantom Venom Elite
Mizuno Morelias

I feel like people moved onto basketball shoes culturally. Jordans specifically. Let's face it, none of us are wearing a lair of football boots on the reg.

I made my parents buy me the green predators because of Gerrard, I wanted to play like him so bad

The way you feel goes away if you are good, when you are 10.

shoutout the wingers who wore predator lethal zones , e.g Di Maria

Saka « world class » 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Love the pro evolution soccer 5 backgorund music

Wish they kept the hypervenom line man... my hypervenom 3s are the greatest boot I've ever owned.

Back in the day you'd never wear vapors unless you were a clinical striker a la R9

Anyone know were I can find 2014 gold hypervenoms in size 9.5??

Bring back Hypervenoms😢

I got the Nike Mecurial Superfly 10 Kylian Mbappe's for my birthday (:

Total 90's and rooney

2011/2012 black orange and white adidas predator

nowadays I buy Fila boots for 30 bucks because they the cheapest

The kid with the blue messi boots was Xavier iykyk

the demon skin predators

CR7 x Mercurial was a match made in football heaven. I own a pair of AirZoom Mercurials that I wear every week on the pitch. I like the look and fit of Mercurials the most.

Everyone gangsta , until the copa mundial (originals) enter the pitch 🫶🏽🔥☝🏽👌🏽

I would ask if I can copa pure

Mercurial 9 is just ☠️🔥

the ace 16 + purcontrol all black were the best of all time

i love hol up and you using it makes me SO happy bro

My Favorite is the puma future and evopower (at least at a reasonable price and Good performance and lifelong durability and touch like the kings unlike the Puma ultras and Nike Boots both Mercurial, Phamtom and Tiempo.
Subs to you

A og mercurial beats everything

I wear tiempos now because of Jamal Musiala. I have also bought a pair of New balance Furon’s because of Saka. But predators r my favorite tho

What’s a football boot that holds a special place on your heart?