Every time Bridgey gets a twinge he's gonna get hammered on here.
As long as it's not the knee.
Anyway, looks like we will know the identity of the new Griff very soon.
Every time Bridgey gets a twinge he's gonna get hammered on here.
As long as it's not the knee.
Anyway, looks like we will know the identity of the new Griff very soon.
lol, classic jets.Originally Posted by Pico
normal proceedings continue
wheres Looobz when u need him?
Cant wait till this strikers announced tbh.
Neither can I. I do get skeptical when we say they are "about to sign". How many times do you hear that and it turns out never to actually happen.
Thought we would have learned.
Mikael forssell
Does anyone "in the know" have any real new/hints they can give about this? I'm noticing a lot of silence here over what would normally be touted as pretty large news..
(I think its the silence that gives me hope. As normally when names are thrown about it all turns out to be a load of cobblers toss..)
is this legit or bait for gardiner & dillon?
btw melbourne heart are supposedly about to sign grella.
OK
And Owen has said he wants $3m to come down under for the season.
Good off to Newcastle United as well, appaz.
If true, I hope this doesn't turn out to be another Jeffers v2. V1 played well. We cant afford another international striker not to fire the way Franny failed to do last year
Wheelhouse primed for Wednesday's trial
http://www.theherald.com.au/news/loc...l/2632671.aspx
It may be an intraclub trial but Jets captain Jobe Wheelhouse has never been more primed for a game.
Wheelhouse will make his long awaited return from a foot injury against the Jets youth team and fringe players at Ray Watt Oval on Wednesday.
The internal hit out, which will be the last chance for Scottish trialist Mark Burchill to press his claims for a contract, replaces a trial against Northern NSW club Charlestown City on Wednesday night.
Wheelhouse had surgery in May to remove a bursa from the outside of his left foot and has been back in full training for a fortnight.The Jets kick off their season against Adelaide United at Hunter Stadium on October 7.
^best part of that video is what we can only assume was a 30 metre strike into the top corner from Rubez
Nah mate just putting 2 and 2 together and getting 19. Was just 'researching' a bit lately for European strikers that are a realistic shot at coming to the a-league as a marquee and he came up as a free agent soyeah just spinning shit. Can't wait to find out.
So not only did adeliade fall for it but an Australian based agentReds Admit Rosales Hoax
FAKE...Part of the fake information pack sent out to agents and clubs
By Staff Writer
Jul 23 2012 19:30
ADELAIDE United have abandoned plans to trial an overseas player after apparently falling victim to an elaborate hoax that invented the star and his top flight CV.
The Reds have been left red-faced after mystery man Dexter Rosales failed to appear for a trial a week after the club announced it would look at the American alongside Sydney-based Portuguese product Fabio Ferreira as potential signings.
United coach John Kosmina is putting his squad through a tough pre-season camp in the Adelaide Hills this week, and it was expected that Ferreira and Rosales would take part.
Ferreira has linked up with the squad but there was no sign of Rosales on Monday, and au.fourfourtwo.com understands club officials have now conceded they have probably been sold a dummy.
"It has been a strange few days with all the speculation around this mystery man - it doesn't look great from our end," a Reds media spokesman admitted tonight.
"We're not the first club to be given a false lead with a supposed trialist, but other clubs probably just don't promote it to the world like we did."
Former USA youth representative Rosales was said to have been a former player with top clubs like River Plate and Ajax and was being touted to Adelaide by a Sydney-based FIFA-registered agent.
But a closer inspection of his CV reveals massive holes in his backstory - and a Google check only reveals a string of dodgy self-created websites.
The 25-year old was said to have turned down a move to Valencia after an Achilles tendon injury ended his contract at Ajax and had instead returned to Miami in the US.
However YouTube videos showing him in action are actually of an entirely different player with a similar name.
And a picture of the mystery man and Klaas Jan Huntelaar at Ajax was supposedly taken three years after the Dutch legend had left the Eredivisie club.
Rosales had been linked with a trial at Western Sydney Wanderers in June when doubts first emerged about his existence.
And when Adelaide last week announced they would be trialing the mystery man, the rumour mill went into overdrive.
Adelaide's own players got wind of the situation and started joking about Rosales' phantom-like existence on Twitter.
Dario Vidosic, Sergio van Dijk, Bruce Djite and Jon McKain used the #IFoundDexter hashtag to post pictures of famous Dexters from the world of television.
au.fourfourtwo.com understands at least one other A-League club was forwarded Rosales' CV, but they decided not to pursue him when an internet search revealed a suspicious lack of information.
One A-League source admitted: "There are far too many doubts about his existence."
Officials at Ajax, Valencia and River Plate have also now dismissed any links with the player.
"Dexter Rosales was never a contracted player here at Ajax and never was on trial," an Ajax media official said.
"I checked Google and saw that there was a (picture) card with the name Dexter Rosales, but that picture of the player in the Ajax kit was Mauro Rosales.
"Mauro was a player from Argentina who was at the club until 2006, but the card and text is not 'Ajax official'.
"We do not know if Dexter Rosales does or does not exist, but we can confirm that he never was at Ajax."
Valencia also denied the player ever graced the Estadio Mestalla pitch.
"He was not a player of Valencia CF," a press official said.
And River Plate added confirmation to the rapid unraveling of Rosales' non-existent career.
"River Plate Athletic Club does not have any registration that says Mr Rosales was a former player," a media officer said.
The alleged player's Australian agent - Sydney-based Lou Nesci - directed enquiries to Rosales's international agent "Dimitri Kascovic"...but he too also appears to be a fake, and is not listed on FIFA's register of licensed agents.
http://www.au.fourfourtwo.com/news/2...ales-hoax.aspx
too funny!
This just keeps getting better and better
How 'Rosales' Fooled The Reds...
THE FAKE FILES...the dossier that created the Rosales Myth
By Staff Writer
Jul 23 2012 23:57
EXCLUSIVE: The slick looking info pack sent out to clubs about hoax player Dexter Rosales should have sounded alarm bells even before a cursory internet check would have.
Adelaide United admitted today that they had been taken for a ride by the fake after inviting him over from the US for a trial with the Reds.
But au.fourfourtwo.com has seen the impressive sales package put together by elusive "agent" Dimitri Kascovic about his invented star.
And on the very second page, the unknown 25 year old winger claimed to have notched up a goal or assist every 30 MINUTES while in the reserves at Ajax over a three month period in 2010/11.
In just 14 matches, Kascovic claimed Rosales supposedly scored 16 times, with eight assists, despite rarely playing a full game.
He was also said to have scored five times in the Eredivisie Cup against Feyenoord and AZ Alkmaar, with yet another assist in the cup clash against PSV.
An additional single page PDF adds to the staggering fairytale, claiming 72 goals and 58 assists from 109 games for local US side, West Kendall Coalition FC in Miami, Florida.
And at River Plate, Rosales supposedly scored another 26 goals, with 12 assists, in just 32 reserve matches from 2007 and 2009.
Adelaide were so seduced by the superstar stats, they invited the player to join them for a boot camp trial in Adelaide Hills this week,
They ignored the poorly photoshopped picture of his international "agent" which appears to be a stock photography image of a young businessman.
Kascovic does not appear in FIFA's registers of licensed agents.
He claimed to be linked to an eastern European sports management site lorussport.com - but chose not to use the website's email address and instead used a free email service attached to a local bulletin board based in Washington DC.
The agent is also listed elsewhere online as having a gmail address.
He first made contact with agents in December, offering Rosales's services around, including a badly written email to Bruce Arena at LA Galaxy, claiming the player would be available as a free agent from January 2012.
Rosales was linked to Western Sydney Wanderers in June, but they were alert to a possible scam almost immediately.
An internet search only revealed a string of vanity websites which attempted to corroborate his CV and achievements and were designed to be prominent on Google if anyone searched for his name.
Wanderers gave it a swerve - but Adelaide fell for the hoax when they announced they would be trialing him this week.
Included in the Rosales sales package was an obviously faked health report plus a powerpoint presentation claiming to detail his surgery and recovery from an achilles tendon operation, which appears to feature bionic technology.
The medical report adds that "...with our sport medicine team, we placed a bioimplant that is not of human origin."
Today the Australian agent who was involved in the deal insisted he was simply stringing the hoaxer along to see what would happen.
"I guess a few were victims of the fraud but to date I can't see what Dexter expected to get out of it," said Sydney-based Lou Nesci.
http://www.au.fourfourtwo.com/news/2...-the-reds.aspx
Not sure where jobe is going to fit in with GVE's plans our midfield is packed already.
Deja vu fails to hobble recovering Jobe Wheelhouse’s enthusiasm
HEALING: Jobe Wheelhouse
BY JAMES GARDINER
24 Jul, 2012 04:00 AM
JOBE Wheelhouse has been here before. Another pre-season. Another surgery. More interruption.
Wheelhouse will make a much-anticipated return from a foot injury in an intra-club trial at Ray Watt Oval.
It has been an all-too-common occurrence for the luckless Jets captain.
But far from frustrated, Wheelhouse is excited to get back into the swing of things.
‘‘It has been an interrupted pre-season, but in some ways that is a good thing for me,’’ Wheelhouse said.
‘‘I had time to have a good break and I’m feeling really good. It has been 10 weeks now and everything has pretty much gone to plan.’’
Wheelhouse has been in full training a fortnight after surgery in May to remove a bursa from his left foot.
The wholehearted midfielder played the final third of last season with the aid of pain-killing injections and had to cut a hole in the outside of his left boot to lessen the pressure on the problem area.
‘‘Puma will be happy that I won’t be running around with a hole in my boot,’’ he said.
‘‘Where the scar is on the foot is quite sensitive. It is on the sole of my foot and every time my foot touches the ground I feel it. It will take time to heal properly but otherwise it is 100 per cent.’’
Wheelhouse trained yesterday in an advanced role in midfield but is unsure exactly where he fits into Gary van Egmond’s plans.
‘‘We haven’t spoken too much about the position he wants me to play,’’ Wheelhouse said.
‘‘It will be in midfield somewhere. If I have to play the left, the right, the middle ... wherever the team needs me I’m happy to play.’’
Michael Bridges (hamstring strain) sat out training yesterday but should only be sidelined for a week. The internal hit-out will be a final chance for Scottish trialist Mark Burchill to press claims for a contract.
The Jets’ Young Socceroos quartet – Jack Duncan, Josh Brillante, Mitch Cooper and Connor Chapman – were back on deck after a gruelling two-week tour of Vietnam.
Much of yesterday’s session was focused on the front third.
‘‘There is no doubt that is where we need the work,’’ Wheelhouse said.
http://www.theherald.com.au/news/loc...m/2633241.aspx
Last edited by Pico; 24-07-2012 at 07:11 AM.
Do you think Jobe will retain the captaincy this year? It wil be interesting to see where he fits.
Does he come in for Kanta? Does he take the right mid spot and move Rubez to right wing?
Jobe has a fair one touch pass though if I recall...
Tiago will be captain LOL
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