Hoolahan is one of the lowest paid in the squad. He only come here for the new experience.
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What the hell are you smok'n ?.
Wes is not a marquee in the proper definition of it with his wages not being paid outside the cap.
Clubs like ours like to refer to there key so called big name signings as marquee purely for status purposes but essentially if there deal is counted inside the cap they are not marquee status in the sense of what the marquee status was meant to be.
Our gypo CEO is on record time and time again saying no monies were spent outside the cap meaning both Arroyo and Wes are within the cap and as such do not meet proper marquee status.
As for owing Lee anything, nah man i don't pay by the month he has my monies in full LOL.
Ok, so if that's the case and we managed to keep him inside the cap, well played by all involved. I know he's on low wages, but we still replaced Vargas with a most likely better player in Wessi.
The point still stands that Martin doesn't have to spend money outside the cap and if he chooses not to, so be it. There's plenty of players in our squad that are bringing us down further than any true marquee could improve us.
Gut the squad and find a CEO who knows what he's doing and we will be doing better than we would by adding any marquee to this current group.
The problem I see with our squad is we have just become a club for recycled players to get another year or two at. I really hope whoever comes in next is pretty ruthless and has an eye on youth. If we are going to consider a shit journeyman winger good enough, we sure as hell should consider a young player with zero A-League street cred good enough.
Precisely right
But here is the other thing
When we were going well we didn't build on it
Who did we sign after making the GF??
No one
We then resigned a pile of blokes who over achieved
Right now we got a squad full of players not earning their wages
Dimi Hoff Topor Kanta Ugarkovic not one of them is earning 100% of their wage at the moment
Instead of being ruthless in 2018 and looking to build the Gypo CEO and Berts decisions are now coming back to bite us on the arse
Huge problem is that we have zero scouting network. We only look at players that are offered to us, and never go in search of what we actually need.
We sign the likes of Fitzgerald because we didn't have any other options to compare him with. We needed a body, he was available for low wages and we don't have to spend time and money going out and finding anybody better. Shit mentality, bit exactly what if expect from our current and past CEO.
Other issue is that agents are also involved
I would love to know who's agent Fitzuseless is
Because it wouldn't surprise me if he is managed by someone who also manages someone in our squad
This is a much bigger issue than most fans are aware
Players are offered to clubs as clubs have relationships with agents
I be backing most of our signings in the last 10 years have come from agents with good relationships with people at the Jets at the time dropping people in our laps
Was it Tony rallis who has/had a very close agent/mgmt relationship with mckinna.
Yes: Football House Plus:
Ridenton and Millar are managed by them.
Other past Jets with them include:
Andrew Hoole
Mario Shabow
Andrew Nabbout
Daniel Georgevski
Taylor Reagan
Patricio Rodriguez [Intermediary].
They represent the most players of any group in the A-League - so it's probably not a bad thing if Lawrie has a good relationship with them.
Millar appears to have been Helicoptered in for Georgevski - so the Jets would have been completely screwed on that deal.
Chances of Lawrie not knowing Nabbout was available are practically nil given his relationship with Tony Rallis.
2016 Mourinhio takes over at Man Utd
This will just emphasise how bad Agents can effect a club
In 2016 they signed
Zlatan
Pogba
Mkhyatarian
2017 they signed
Lukaku
There are a lot of square pegs in round holes there and judging by how Mourinhio struggled at Man U they don't all look like his signings
All coincidentally have the same agent
NBN on Robinson sightings
http://video.nbnnews.com.au/coachspeculation190120.mp4