The Championship Chronicles - The Jetstream's review of the 2007/08 season. www.newcastlefootball.net/chronicles
Just picturing the long balls NTS and Boogs are going to be spraying to Nabbout and O'Donnovan every week.
I love how guys "know" what players are being paid.
I love it how people who pay little to no attention when details are reported then cast derision on anyone that does.
I never said I knew exactly what he earned, I said he was now in our top paid players.
If you pay attention to when players incomes are reported in the press and the subsequent moves they make to obscenely high paying leagues, it is fairly reasonable to estimate he is a top earner.
This is all about competition for starting spots, we've now got two guys competing for the "cant catch anyone" slow CB position, and two guys competing for the inexperienced bean pole CB position. It's actual a coaching master stroke by Bernie!
Sure, good options.
Especially Ansell.
However, no current Socceroo would come here.
Ansell is probably looking for an Asia/Euro deal after finishing up with Victory.
It's one thing to say they're available as options, but REALISTIC options, they are not.
They wouldn't take the same coin as NTS, and we can't offer more, in our current situation.
If Boogs was gone, it'd be another story, and we could throw more at them.
It's not like NTS ever contributed to a consistently successful A-league club, or had a hand in winning an ACL title. I see him as a solid upgrade over Mullen which isn't a bad thing. For those speculating over $$, we don't know what he's been offered, or whether he was just desperate to come home. How much was he on at his former club?
The Championship Chronicles - The Jetstream's review of the 2007/08 season. www.newcastlefootball.net/chronicles
Some people around here will never be happy..
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3. Jason Hoffman - 17/18
4. Nigel Boogaard - 17/18
5. Ben Kantarovski - 17/18
6. Steven Ugarkovic - 18/19
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9. Aleksandr Kokko - 17/18
10. Wayne Brown - 18/19
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13. Ivan Vujica - 17/18
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15. Andrew Nabbout - 17/18
16. Nick Cowburn - 17/18
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20. Jack Duncan - 17/18
21. Daniel Alessi - 17/18
22. Lachlan Jackson - 18/19
23. Devante Clut - 17/18
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28.John Koutroumbis - 18/19
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Daniel Georgievski - 18/19
Mario Shabow - 18/19
Kosta Petratos - 17/18
Roy O'Donovan - 18/19
Dimitri Petratos - 18/19
Glen Moss - 17/18
Nikolai Topor-Stanley - 18/19
The Championship Chronicles - The Jetstream's review of the 2007/08 season. www.newcastlefootball.net/chronicles