2017/18 Squad Thread

[plague]

I like this:



Play a bit of Foz FM here and everyone show us the type of squad YOU would put together and how much you would pay them.

If you had actual wages vs cap space for the existing 16 on contract we may be able to do it.

But as witnessed here no one has any real clue what our blokes are on.

[plague]

Ok here's a kid I saw over there.
Kento Hashimoto for Tokyo FC.
Played centre mid, absolutely bossed the game, was listed in 2016 as being on $60k. According to rumours that's approx 1/2 what BK is on.
So yeah give me 2 Hashimotos for the price of an oft injured bloke who can't make our starting team thanks.

Now: even if in the last 18 months his wage has gone up, the next 'Hashimoto' is prob over there in J2 waiting for a run.


Club: go find him.

[The Dunster]

Ok here's a kid I saw over there.
Kento Hashimoto for Tokyo FC.
Played centre mid, absolutely bossed the game, was listed in 2016 as being on $60k. According to rumours that's approx 1/2 what BK is on.
So yeah give me 2 Hashimotos for the price of an oft injured bloke who can't make our starting team thanks.

Now: even if in the last 18 months his wage has gone up, the next 'Hashimoto' is prob over there in J2 waiting for a run.


Club: go find him.

You might be missing a zero on that wage figure to get him to the Jets. His market value is over a million dollars. To get him here we'd probably need to make him a marquee.
He's been on loan to a J2 team but looks to be about to establish himself in J1 and has 2 goals from 8 appearances so far.

[StannyCFCJET]

I like this:



Play a bit of Foz FM here and everyone show us the type of squad YOU would put together and how much you would pay them.

Grim for manager. Not the manager we deserve but the manager we need

[Grimario]

Grim for manager. Not the manager we deserve but the manager we need

Nah, wouldn't work. In FM, you can get two marquees on around $800k-1m each and get in good players on loan for nada (which FFA banned IRL). I am simply an exploiter of game mechanics.

[lquiquer]

I am simply an exploiter of game mechanics.

Exactly what we need...

[MFKS]

When the member finally gives his blueprint to fix the club i'll be happy to listen and then agree/disagree. All he has said so far is that our players suck and should be sacked and replaced with better ones. WOW, who would have thought it was that easy?

We know the squad isn't good enough, i feel like 80% of the league isn't good enough for the wages they earn. So in theory your plan is to sack 80% of the squad, sign 5 first teamers on good coin, run out of salary cap space and then forfeit every game because we only have 7 players on our books?

I actually don't think it can be achieved in 12 months

I just don't see how even Jesus could sort this shit out in 12 months

To me it just can't happen

What though is the way forward is to actually try and ship 3 blokes in particular out.

Kokko if we can get him a club back in the shitful Scandanavian league he come from then that is a necessity

Brown being he on two years more it may be impossible to dislodge him but we need to be looking at better foreigners than him. Getting him out would be a godsend

Boogaard also needs to go. Paying big money to a slow CD who gives away pens and red cards all the time is a problem we need rid of. Hopefully find some cashed up Asian club to take him

If we can get rid of those 3 it would free up a large chunk of salary cap space. Getting rid of any of the 3 would also help

If this was to happen with the other 7 spots free it would give us 10 spots available for the new man to rebuild

10 spots ain't going to allow the new man a complete rebuild but will give him a better crack at it.

I would also happily let two blokes go who I think we could ship out easily

Ugarkovic and Nabbout would both have some currency for rival teams

I would let them go also to assist the rebuild if the opportunity arose.

Now as for signing blokes

Only be paying market value for HAL level players. I backing our recent signings OCaravan and Georgevski are getting paid better next year than they we may have needed to agree to

Start to out together a squad of 10/15 HAL level players as soon as possible and then keep building each year from then on

[plague]

You might be missing a zero on that wage figure to get him to the Jets. His market value is over a million dollars. To get him here we'd probably need to make him a marquee.
He's been on loan to a J2 team but looks to be about to establish himself in J1 and has 2 goals from 8 appearances so far.

yeah well there you go.
he was back in J1 the best player on the park against the table toppers.

surely theres plenty more out there like him, especially compared to what were trotting out over here.

[MFKS]

i don't want to pay anyone out.

I actually don't hate on the likes of Cowburn etc as much as some on here.

The bit I agree with the member on is that we are talking about resigning a couple of blokes who can't make the starting squad for the team that ran dead last. At the least the remaining 6/7 squad spots should be targeted at players much better than what we have.

We should also sign a coach better than what we had.

But again, that's on the CEO. He is employed to run the football club. Part of that is having a scouting network. If he doesn't have one, he's derelict in his duty if he ain't out there working on it.

Where to get these players from? I've stated before, some of the best talent we ever had came from 'unknown' 2nd and 3rd tier Asian players.

Are we looking there? I've just been over here and the quality on display is a damn sight better than the SANPL.
(And if the Internet is to be believed) the wages are more than comparable to what we are paying.

I'd just love to see our club, for once, not look in the other clubs rubbish bins for players and coaches.

But until it happens I'm convinced we'll sign yet another Sth American/Scano/Pom who once played for a club that you may have heard of who is past his prime in the hope it all changes.

As for where we getting our foreigners from

If we going Asian the talent is there

Some blokes in the Thai Premier League would kill it here and take nowhere near the money we wasting on the likes of Nordstrand Kokko and Brown. Skills wise they would have it over them as well.

Just need to assess their physical and mental aspects well

I know we more or less stuck going Chinese with the Chinese Lightsalesman overlord etc

But it be great to look at Koreans like LeakyG Song etc.


If we going European why do we only dabble in shit Scandanavian blokes or even worse Poms??

Surely some other **** in Spain plays football like Diego Castro??

Why we not trying to find him??

Surely some other bloke in Germany plays football like Thomas Broich??

Why we not looking there??

Surely some bloke in Italy can also play like Cannavaro??
Why we not looking for a defensive leader here instead of letting Boogaard give away pens every couple of weeks??

That's 3 of the strongest nations in world football and we ain't looking to recruit from there at all.

Vignaroli was no mug was he??

Yet for some reason we keep shopping at the shit warehouse

[plague]

Just need to assess their physical and mental aspects well

well considering our captain got out jumped twice in one game by Robbie ****ing Corthwaite i have no issue with the 'toughness' of any of the Asian blokes.

totally agree Thai players too, there are some fantastic ones out there.

[hawk]

totally agree Thai players too, there are some fantastic ones out there.

agree. they smashed indo in the SSE asean cup (- the good teams) 3-2. partied like it was 1666

[Wilso8948]

Ocaravan
Burns/Castro/FBK
Milligan/Paartalu
Georgevski/Jackson/Boogard/Hoffman
Duncan

Bench - Nabbout/Poljak/Vujica/Ugarkovic/GK

Squad - Youth and minimum wage.

Obvs that's using all marquee statuses and I know I'm clutching at straws. But Ocaravan, FBK, Partaalu would all come under the cap in a well managed club.

Until we start aiming for a squad like that we can never expect to do anything in this league.

[rhysd]

Ocaravan
Burns/Castro/FBK
Milligan/Paartalu
Georgevski/Jackson/Boogard/Hoffman
Duncan

Bench - Nabbout/Poljak/Vujica/Ugarkovic/GK

Squad - Youth and minimum wage.

Obvs that's using all marquee statuses and I know I'm clutching at straws. But Ocaravan, FBK, Partaalu would all come under the cap in a well managed club.

Until we start aiming for a squad like that we can never expect to do anything in this league.

Milligan Castro and burns. Good luck fitting that into 2 marquee positions

[MFKS]

Milligan Castro and burns. Good luck fitting that into 2 marquee positions

Thanks to Tim your now allowed 3

That being said Burns should be fitted in under the cap

[Frodo]

Ocaravan
Burns/Castro/FBK
Milligan/Paartalu
Georgevski/Jackson/Boogard/Hoffman
Duncan

Bench - Nabbout/Poljak/Vujica/Ugarkovic/GK

Squad - Youth and minimum wage.

Obvs that's using all marquee statuses and I know I'm clutching at straws. But Ocaravan, FBK, Partaalu would all come under the cap in a well managed club.

Until we start aiming for a squad like that we can never expect to do anything in this league.

Get rid of these 2 off your list and I might be interested. I'd take FBK if we can't get Castro but not both of them.

I'd tweak your dream team like this.

O'Caravan
Nabbout/Castro/Burns
Uga/Paartalu
George/Ansell/Mullen/Hoffman
Duncan

Brown/Jackson/Koutrimbus/Clut/BK

Vujica/Sawyer/Cowburn/Allessi/Poljak as squad players.

Castro and Burns would be on Marquee wages, only way to get them here. Paartalu would be on Boogards coin. Ansell can play but we need to make sure he passes his medical.

[plague]

Get rid of these 2 off your list and I might be interested. I'd take FBK if we can't get Castro but not both of them.

I'd tweak your dream team like this.

O'Caravan
Nabbout/Castro/Burns
Uga/Paartalu
George/Ansell/Mullen/Hoffman
Duncan

Brown/Jackson/Koutrimbus/Clut/BK

Vujica/Sawyer/Cowburn/Allessi/Poljak as squad players.

Castro and Burns would be on Marquee wages, only way to get them here. Paartalu would be on Boogards coin. Ansell can play but we need to make sure he passes his medical.

Even this team minus one marquee, and using BK's wage to sign a cheap back up goalie is feasible and a damn site better than what we trotted out last year.

Would have Johnny K over Mullen but your point is solid and sensible.

[Frodo]

I actually don't think it can be achieved in 12 months

I just don't see how even Jesus could sort this shit out in 12 months

To me it just can't happen

What though is the way forward is to actually try and ship 3 blokes in particular out.

Kokko if we can get him a club back in the shitful Scandanavian league he come from then that is a necessity

Brown being he on two years more it may be impossible to dislodge him but we need to be looking at better foreigners than him. Getting him out would be a godsend

Boogaard also needs to go. Paying big money to a slow CD who gives away pens and red cards all the time is a problem we need rid of. Hopefully find some cashed up Asian club to take him

If we can get rid of those 3 it would free up a large chunk of salary cap space. Getting rid of any of the 3 would also help

If this was to happen with the other 7 spots free it would give us 10 spots available for the new man to rebuild

10 spots ain't going to allow the new man a complete rebuild but will give him a better crack at it.

I would also happily let two blokes go who I think we could ship out easily

Ugarkovic and Nabbout would both have some currency for rival teams

I would let them go also to assist the rebuild if the opportunity arose.

Now as for signing blokes

Only be paying market value for HAL level players. I backing our recent signings OCaravan and Georgevski are getting paid better next year than they we may have needed to agree to

Start to out together a squad of 10/15 HAL level players as soon as possible and then keep building each year from then on

I agree with the highlighted section here very much and can definitely see some sense in the rest of your points. Uga and Nabbout wouldn't be on unbelievable coin so I think we should keep them, but if we lose them i'm not going to cry.

[Frodo]

Even this team minus one marquee, and using BK's wage to sign a cheap back up goalie is feasible and a damn site better than what we trotted out last year.

Would have Johnny K over Mullen but your point is solid and sensible.

We could also use Kanta + Hooles wages to sign one of Castro or Burns. Find another Asian Messi to play across the front line somewhere and we have kept things under the cap. The loss of both BK's could be a massive deal this year in regards to the salary cap. If anyone would take Boogs we would actually be able to build a half-decent squad wage wise. HOWEVER!!! We still need some reason to attract them to a wooden spoon winning club without overpaying too much. A reputable coach would be a start.

[PC14]

Thanks to Tim your now allowed 3

At the FFA's discretion.

[Wilso8948]

At the FFA's discretion.

I'm pretty sure they'd be happy to keep Castro in the league.