What? Don't other GM's give their players away for free?Quote:
Originally Posted by Gary Fish
Oh, just ours.
**** Middleby.
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What? Don't other GM's give their players away for free?Quote:
Originally Posted by Gary Fish
Oh, just ours.
**** Middleby.
Yes, we do, so looking good with the keepers for a few yearsQuote:
Originally Posted by plague
David Carney released by NY Red Bulls.
With Jamieson out of Perth, would seem logical for them to have a go at signing Carney as a replacement.
Carney has middle east written all over him.
Carney has definite SFC recruit written all over him after Tiago copes a year long ban.
Just when I thought Sydney's defence couldn't get any worseQuote:
Originally Posted by Grimario
Carney at DL isn't as bad as Warren at DL, let's be honest...
A garden gnome beats both. Carney and Warren are both pretty much moving chicanesQuote:
Originally Posted by Grimario
And its funny that you brought Carney into the Socceroos transfer thread.
Good move for davidson and good to have another aussie in the prem.
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The World Game
The Baggies have paid an undisclosed sum for Davidson, who was in dispute with Heracles bosses over whether he was able to leave the club as a free agent.
After long negotiations the left-back, who played all three games for Australia at the FIFA World Cup where his reputation was significantly enhanced, was informed he was free to pursue his dream of playing in one of Europe's top leagues.
Heracles was seeking to impose a one-year contract extension to keep him at the club and Davidson has been effectively in limbo after declining to return to pre-season training.
He will meet his new teammates on Tuesday (AEST) after undergoing a medical and officially signing his contract at the Hawthorns.
West Brom led a multi-club chase for Davidson, with strong interest from two Serie A side and another in the Bundesliga.
Davidson will be competing for the left-back spot with Sebastien Pocognoli, the Belgian international signed from Hannover 96 for an undisclosed fee three weeks ago, following the exits of Liam Ridgewell and Goran Popov.
While he missed the bulk of the pre-season due to his dispute with Heracles, the 23-year-old is willing to back himself to claim the spot as West Brom boss Alan Irvine seeks depth in every position this season.
The Baggies kick off the new season at home to Sunderland on 17 August (AEST).
I don't know a heap about Wbrom but I've been told this year they're looking to play a 5 man (or 3 man, however you look at it) backline, similar to LVG at Manure. Davidson can play a bit of CB too - maybe a left sided centreback, or left wingback, can see both him & the new Belgian player both line up.
Don't know what the love in is with England with Aussies.
If Serie A were interested a defender should want to go there. They know how to teach you how to defend
money
Getting beaten every week at a club who won't win a thing seems like a great career move regardless of how much money you get.Quote:
Originally Posted by GazFish35
Then again we don't hold it against those blokes who signed to play for Newy:rof:
West Brom leads nowhere. Serie A will see you develop so that one day you may end up at a club with legitimate aspirations to actually win trophies
I really don't see the issue that Australian football fans have with the English leagues nowadays. All the hipsters be like "Eredivisie, Belgium or Bulli 2 for development", when let's be real for a second - have a look at our golden generation, the 06 WC team, and tell me what league the majority of them played in.
Most of them were playing for the lesser lights in England. Take Kewell Viduka when at Leeds Bozza at Man U Slater for the season he spent on the pine at Blackburn and now Schwarzer riding the pine at Chelsea and they have all been at clubs without a hope in hell of competing SERIOUSLY for anythingQuote:
Originally Posted by pv4
We should be looking for well rounded footballers at the end of the day. Ridiculous how we have very little interest in getting blokes into La Liga or Serie A. Regardless of how the Italians have gone in recent times in the UCL it has always been a breeding ground for the best players on the planet to converge.
We will never advance as a nation if the holy grail is to get blokes playing for middle to lower end EPL sides
That route didn't hurt Tim Cahill innit?
I feel like you're contradicting yourself.Quote:
Originally Posted by MFKS
Our best ever national team, who made it out of the group stage (a feat we haven't done since) was mostly playing middle to lower EPL sides. But to get our current gen all into the same spot wouldn't be advancing as a nation?
To think repeating where we were in 2006 will achieve much is incredibly naïve.Quote:
Originally Posted by pv4
We were well drilled by one of the worlds leading tacticians and we played with no fear.
That being said we were actually lucky to get through the group as most World Cups will see 4 points going home. Despite how much people fap over the 2006 effort we still only won 1 game and never kept a clean sheet.
Our goal has to be bumped up from qualifying for the thing and being happy to be there to actually expecting to make it out of the group comfortably and winning the next match. There is no reason in the world why we can not do this. We spend shitloads of money on the game in this country compared to other more successful nations.
Plus WLG our blokes to me take the easy option going to England. Moving to other locations like Alemania Italia Espania where they have to learn a complete new language and deal with a culture that is dramatically different to what we are accustomed to as Aussies as well as succeeding as a pro footballer in this environment is more of an achievement than bowling up somewhere where they all speak the same language and have similar culture etc.
A few rumours going around about Leckie and Oar.
Leckie to Stoke plus a few others and Oar to Palace.
leckie to Stoke would be a great move now with the way they are trying to play football now.
Not sure if this is the correct place to post this. I stumbled upon it and not sure if feel sad or find it funny. I think fulham was one of the worst teams in the world he could've moved to.http://metro.co.uk/2014/07/16/mccorm...ulham-4800236/
Troisi has moved to SV Zulte Waregem in the Belgian league.
This Luongo bloke (ie ****ING LEGEND) where would you like to see him end up when he gets out of Swindon and plays for a real football club befitting his talents???
Heard there was some interest from La Liga sides
Heard a Sevilla link, I'd love to see that move go through.
Spain would be my top choice and to avoid England unless it's an EPL side (however most links have been with championship sides).
I agree. No point going to EPL unless he is actually playing regularly. Would think the environment in Spain Italy would be much more suitable for his developmentQuote:
Originally Posted by Imyourhero
If we were talking a hypothetical situation where he's starting regularly for a mid table team in a top flight etc id probably go;
Spain
Germany
Italy
England
In that order.
Swindon are doing quite well in League 1 ATM and look like getting promotion, if that was to be the case I think he will benefit best by re-signing with them.
Why? It's an environment that he is comfortable with already, he is currently progressing well under Mark Cooper, will be likely to get regular game time and the standard of the championship isn't fantastic but it sufficient for a 22 year old still learning his game.
I have watched both Luongo and Kasim (Iraq) flourish at this Asian Cup which makes me think Swindon are doing something incredibly right in coaching these guys. Keep them at Swindon and i imagine they'll only get better!
Not that he is a Socceroo but gypo Amini is on his way out of Dortmund.
http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/artic...options-beckon
Massimo Luongo to transfer to QPR
He does know that they got relegated doesn't he???
I guess maybe he is taking the gamble of a team where he'll still get game time and a team likely to be promoted in the future.
Luongo is now official.
I don't think this will be a good move for him. Villa have played young players in the past with a number of them reaching the first team. The advantage, however, of QPR over Villa is Rangers should be a stronger team in the Championship whilst Villa may be fighting relegation again. It's easier to develop in a winning team.
Disagree Villa are a basket case of a clubQuote:
Originally Posted by Jeterpool
Going there was the worst thing he could have done
Moving to the Championship was the second worst thing he could have done.
Lets remember if his Swindon team didn't get pumped by the Nob End on Sunday he would have been in the Championship next season anyway.
He is at a stage of his development where not only does he need to play but he also needs to be adequately taught.
I don't see how he will achieve much going to a side where they will have a win at all costs attitude next season as they will want to get back in the EPL straight away.
He had also reached a level where he need to move upwards and to me he hasn't really done so. He is just moved marginally sideways with an upward slant.
Should have left England all together and went to the continent
yeah not a fan of this move at all
rip luongo
With Amini and Rogic finding some good form in pre season, could one hope of a midfield three of Luongo, Amini and Rogic somewhere down the line?
Not enough defensive capacity in that. Would need Jedinak (or similar) anchoring it, for sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Imyourhero
fixed your error Grim.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grimario
Holland should have never been dropped. He's a rich mans McKay but clearly doesn't have photos of Ange or his missus or daughter.Quote:
Originally Posted by belchardo
Probably true about Jedinak. Pretty sure Amini has been trained now as a holding midfielder rather than the AM he was back in Australia. Obviously not a ball winner though but somebody who can distribute. If we had both Luongo and Rogic fit and in form thats a good rotational option for the AM role in our lineup.
If Amini has been developing as a deeper distributor, that would be great. That's what we missed in the last game... without Luongo, we had a huge failure to link the front and back thirds.Quote:
Originally Posted by Imyourhero