turns out Donachie has gone to Sydney, O'Toole is in talks with them and Johnny K is still unknownQuote:
Originally Posted by Mark325
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turns out Donachie has gone to Sydney, O'Toole is in talks with them and Johnny K is still unknownQuote:
Originally Posted by Mark325
O toole to sydney is the rumour
I could see him going back to Adelaide. THey have a starting CB vacancyQuote:
Originally Posted by Mark325
Expiring 21/22
3 Jason Hoffman – signed until 21/22
5 Ben Kantarovski – signed until 21/22
7 Jordan O'Doherty - signed until 21/22
17 Valentino Yuel - signed until 21/22
19 Kosta Petratos - signed until 21/22* - *to the best of my knowledge
24 Joe Champness – signed until 21/22
26 Archie Goodwin - signed until 21/22*^
28 Blake Archbold - signed until 21/22 ^
xx Mohamed Al-Taay - signed until 21/22
Expiring 22/23
xx Cameron Devlin - signed until 22/23
27 Lucas Mauragis - signed until 22/23
32 Angus Thurgate – signed until 22/23
Xx Noah James - signed until 22/23
xx Matthew Jurman - signed until 22/23
xx Dane Ingham - signed until 22/23
xx Riley Warland - signed until 22/23
xx Beka Mikeltadze - signed until 22/23 #
xx Jordan Elsey - signed until 22/23
Expiring 23/24
23 Jack Duncan - signed until 23/24
19 players signed for next season
- 17 A-League squad players
- 1 Visa spot (Mikeltadze)
- 2 Scholarships (Goodwin and Archbold)
Duncan
Ingham - Elsey - Jurman - Mauragis
O'Doherty - Devlin
Champness - Thurgate - Goodwin
Mikeltadze
Bench: James, Hoffman, Warland, Kanta??, Yuel
I guess as of now thats our squad from my view, I don't hate it but it's definitely missing some extra something to take it over the top
Johnny's been trying to get out of his contract for a while. Wouldnt surprise me to see him at wsw with robboQuote:
Originally Posted by Bon
Has he?Quote:
Originally Posted by lil_masi
Happy for people to modify this with a general consensus on players best positions, especially youngsters.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeterpool
But this is what I am seeing as a quick depth chart.
GK - Duncan, Noah
RB - Ingham, *Hoffman
CB - Jurman, Elsey, Warland, Al-Taay
LB - Mauragis
CDM - Kanta, Devlin, O'Doherty
CAM - Thurgate, *Kosta
RW - Hoffman, *Ingham, Kosta, Champness, Archbold,
LW - Yuel, *Kosta, *Archbold,
ST/CF - Beka, *Yuel, Goodwin.
*Second position that a player can also do a job at, but not their best position.
So,
GK is sorted.
RB is sorted.
CB is more than sorted.
LB needs someone else, either a backup if Pappas rates Mauragis or an older starter if needed.
If we go to a back 3/5, we are sorted for all 5 positions because we have other options for LWB in Kosta or Archbold.
CDM is sorted.
CAM definitely could use a visa signing to bolster our attack. Thurgate can be an amazing backup or move to an 8 if we slant the midfield and leave Devlin as a single pivot.
CF/ST is probably sorted given Salary constrants and other needs.
RW looks sorted if Champness stays.
LW looks weak and needs a guaranteed starter.
I hope we resign Stamo as a proper backup ST with Goodwin being the longterm option after another season working his way off the bench.
Would it be possible to add to the bottom of this post how many positions we have left to fill that the rules allow ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeterpool
E.G 1 visa spot filled with 3 spots still available
19 players signed with 4 spots still available
2 scholarships filled with 2 spots available
The reason I ask for this is I can never remember how many players we can have signed and how many positions we have left to fill.
It will also show us if the club is utilising all the signings available that the rules allow.
Never been a huge fan of Johnny. Would've been interesting to see him as a midfielder.
I hope NTS gets a chance now.
Johnny K = Brilliante v.2
**** this club.
When do season tix go on sale hurry up Middleby.
In the herald today they mentioned that Devlin might not be playing for us due to offers from Europe, I understand he’d want to take that offer but as a club we really really should be pushing to keep him. Many clubs seemed to want his signature and somehow we got it, be disappointing to see him go before we even got anything out of him
IMO if he has an offer to play in Europe we as fans should be happy to see him go there. We want Aussies playing at the highest level possible and the A League is about as low as it goes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark325
The club just needs do it's absolute best to convince him that when he's done in Europe he should come back and pay us back for letting him chase him dream.
I agree that it will be sad to not see him play for us tho.
Perhaps it's classic Jets... Probably gave him an exit clause that if he got a euro offer he could terminate his contact so he's a free transfer, the sort of clause other clubs wouldn't agree to, but Jet's would.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark325
Shame about Griffiths getting screwed out of a job so the parasite Dean's can be handed another position for him to **** up, all because they ****ed up giving him a coaching contract.
Love the mutual terminations so our owners can top up their squads with our players again. What happened to transfer fees coming in for the 2021 season? who needs to worry about that when you can have a feeder team instead.
Papas in the herald said he's hoping but no guarantee that in the next week we'll have signed at least three key foreigners for the squad.
Also seeing that apparently Devlin being gone is most likely, and that I believe we will be getting some compensation if he does leave
Flipping a player would be good business. Did the same with Dimi....picked up 100k and he was here 3 months later anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark325
Besides the Herald article last weekend, have you found further reports linking Devlin with a move away? I couldn't see any references in today's Herald article.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark325
So Yuel is back on deck and we are close to making 3 additional "key foreign signings".
Also it appears Stamatelopoulos and Armson are trialling with the club. No word on whether Yengi is
I can add those things, but I'll be honest - I have no idea what the limits are myself. I only know 23 is the A-League squad limit. Can we still have 5 visa players or is it back to 4? I don't know scholarship contract limits.Quote:
Originally Posted by R Ramjet
Herald article says we have 6 spots to fill. I think we are still at 5 foreigners each and no idea about the rest of the squad limits
a minimum of 18 Players;Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeterpool
a maximum of 23 Players;
a minimum of 2 Goalkeepers;
a minimum of 3 Australian Players aged 23 or under;
and a maximum of five foreign players.
The following discretionary payments are outside the Salary Cap:
Designated Players – A Club can spend an unlimited amount on two Players (Foreign or Australian) it nominates as Designated Players;
Guest Player – A Club can spend an unlimited amount on one Guest Player who must satisfy the prescribed marketability criteria. A Guest Player is restricted to a maximum of 14 A-League matches;
Homegrown Players – A Club can spend an unlimited amount on 4 Australian Players aged 23 or younger that have come through the Club’s youth system;
Loyalty Players – A Club can spend an unlimited amount across any number of Players that have given 4 or more consecutive seasons of service to the Club. A portion of a Loyalty Player’s contract value is excluded from the Salary Cap based on a progressive scale;
Scholarship Players – Each Club can contract up to 9 under 23 Australian Players on the national minimum wage. Any payments above the national minimum wage to these Players are included in the Club’s Salary Cap;
Just found this - https://www.a-league.com.au/salary-cap-system
Quote:
At all times during the Season, a Club’s A-League Player Roster must have:
- a minimum of 18 Players;
- a maximum of 23 Players;
- a minimum of 2 Goalkeepers;
- a minimum of 3 Australian Players aged 23 or under;
- and a maximum of five foreign players.
Guest Players sit outside the Club’s A-League Player Roster. Players on a Club’s Y-League Player Roster, including Scholarship Players, are also eligible to participate in the A-League.
So the missing part is keeping track of how the club classify contracts when players are signed/re-signed.
Thanks GrimQuote:
Originally Posted by Grimario
Homegrown - That would include Mauragis and Thurgate.
Scholarship - That would include Goodwin and Archbold.
Loyalty players - That would include Kanta, Kosta Petratos, Thurgate, Hoffman and potentially Noah James.
True for all that but irrelevant if the club doesn't spend outside the cap.
So, as a game, let's now try to work out how Melbourne City managed to spend $5.4 million last season and keep within the cap. I guess they can just throw money at two or three big players as designated.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grimario
They don't really have a history of promoting players from their youth set up so not really any long term players on their list last year to qualify for Loyalty players.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jetmaster
They do however have a few players U23 that would qualify for the Homegrown unlimited... Atkinson (14 games), Colakovski (21) and Metcalfe (24). That's 3 handy players to pay completely outside the cap.
They had eight scholarship players.
They almost certainly used two designated players.
That leaves 15 players to split the $2.1m cap, unlimited funds on the three U23's and two DP's.
Find it hard to believe they could spend $3.3m on 5 uncapped players though but who knows.
Isn't Lucas from the central coast or Sydney?
Canberra.Quote:
Originally Posted by StannyCFCJET
The sad part is their total spend is $1.5 million more than the Jets and Mariners combined.Quote:
Originally Posted by Grimario
Wot salary cap?
Hearing a rumour that Ridenton is possible rejoining the jets
Not from any reliable source, but heard it a couple of times
Surely notQuote:
Originally Posted by Mark325
I only have this to say about that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark325
FFS please NO. Bloke completes the most passes for the opposition pretty much every time he steps on a field. Its like going out and playing 10 v 12.
He wasn’t any good in a stinking team so if we are trying to be better how could he even be an optionQuote:
Originally Posted by 380
D’Agostino anyone?
No way, Duke is a free agent, chase him big time.Quote:
Originally Posted by tomo
Injury prone and moves like a B Double.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alton
Not surprising but Topor is officially released
Best of luck to him. Thanks for all he's done.
Thanks Topor.
Deserved a proper send off.
Think he could have done a job for us. Maybe our terms weren’t worth it to him. Or maybe we weren’t interested at all.
Can see both points. Won’t be arguing if we end up with a few Clean sheets and good defensive record.
Football and sentiment rarely work together. Goodluck to him.