Because City did exactly the same thing with Anthony Caceres last season.
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Because City did exactly the same thing with Anthony Caceres last season.
They are apparently bringing Luke Brattan in as well.
Mooy will be loaned out in Europe next season, he won't be playing for Melbourne unless he is still unable to find a suitable club.
Cahill will be signed as their guest player, rumors are City already have another marquee lined up and are waiting to announce them both.
See there you go....
Everything you say is bang on except for the bit about Mooy playing in Melbourne this season
As soon as Timmy signs and as soon as they announce the other Marquee/Guest Player bit any hope of Mooy coming back is over until the 4th Marquee thing gets up
Former Smurfs player Chris Naumoff has announced his retirement with immediate effect at the age of 21
After signing for a Spanish 2nd division side routine medical discovered heart issue.the type that sees athletes drop dead in the game
Commiserations to the bloke
Does though leave some serious questions about the medical staff at Smurfs how they could miss it and how competent their procedures are
Devastating for him but also a relief. Could of been the next unexpected fatality on the football field (not that any are expected).
Questions should be asked around all of Australia whether at club or international level on procedures to test for this kind of stuff. Did Bernardo Ribeiro have some sort of condition that could of been picked up before his tragedy? I don't know but it's a serious issue and needs to be looked into.
Forgot about him
Being he played for a dysfunctional club like us no great surprise really.
I though am concerned Smurfs FC screening process was this bad. It ain't like our health care system is 3rd world.
It must work some of the time as it picked up Vidmar and prevented him going to a WC
That being said it is baffling how Ribiero and Naumoff can go undetected in this day and age by Aussie clubs
It's not economically viable to test everyone and the types of problems and the tests required to detect them are numerous and often expensive.
Has nothing to do with people being incompetent and so on.
There is also issues about the risks involved in testing otherwise healthy people using radiation and so on in search of things they more than likely do not suffer from.
So it is economically viable for clubs in the Spanish second division but it isn't for A League clubs.
Professional clubs take care of their product. By not being able to look after players with tests that for Professional clubs around the world consider mandatory then we look pretty amatuer
Medicare pays $219 for outpatient echocardiogram (ultrasound / no radiation) and about prob $30 for ECG. If Medicare decline to cover it would cost the club about $6000 to test 24 players. Keep in mind players only need to be tested once... Ribeiro would still be with us.....
So there you go Dunster $250 per player that's going via Medicare FFS
You would think that these clubs would have some degree of medical insurance on their players also
Surely a figure these clubs in this country can afford
Surely something the leaders at the PFA should be making mandatory in part of their next lit of negotiations when ripping the clubs off
But then do you do cancer scans? Melanoma checks? Brain scans for CTE?
It's easy to say one particular test would save lives but so would a bunch of others how thorough do you want clubs to be ("just thorough enough to prevent every single issue" says Member).
Rightly or wrongly I guess clubs just expect your ticker is ok if you're young and fit.