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Anyone who even slightly cares about this is just looking for excuses to be mad at the club. Cheers for the 15 minutes cello.

A luxury player that made some cameos off the bench, injured half the season with the potential to be injured again and prob on a handy salary. Shoot me but I really don't have a problem with this.

Kilkenny is miles ahead of Bozanic

I'm leaning in the opposite direction Murf. Cahill made some very public comments that in effect criticised the club that signed him for two years for total remuneration somewhere in the range $3-5m, and the opportunity to go into coaching in a third year - he had to learn the hard way that you don't do that sort of thing to City Football Group. Brandan was unlikely to play before his contract expired in May 2018. Carrusca is 34 and signed for one season and could barely get on the pitch. I don't see any of these three as major losses. I'm more than happy to see players such as Delbridge, Arzani, Atkinson, Najjarine, Metcalfe etc. coming into the match-day squad, and IMO we have gained by the changes made so far.

City Group should sign Nelly Yoa. Would do far more for publicity than Yoshi ever did. Instead of "You've got to have a team" it could be: "Don't just claim to have a team"?

UOTIH: Snapchat is shit. Expect for receiving nudes.

I don't mind Carlton Cold. Especially this time of year.

Exactly, Mauk and now Vidosic are both clearly in front of him as Wazza seems to like a 10 that brings something to the table defensively. It certainly apperared that Chelo was only ever there for when we were chasing a game and throwing caution to the wolves somewhat, and even then he was injured most of the time. Plus it doesnt seem to me that we cut him, rather he asked to go and we obliged.

Feel the same. If Bruno is pushed out that will do for me

I think once the kids start to do things on their on (go to the shops, cinema etc.) they should have a phone, not a smartphone though. My kids will be getting a smartphone no younger then 15 (got my first one when I was 16, before that it was the good 'ol Nokia brick). Disclaimer: Im only 22 and dont have kids

Pohang signed Connor Chapman over this bloke. Says it all really.

Absolutely not to bozanic, he isn't a creative midfielder, and I much prefer Brattan, mauk and Malik as the central options in midfield

The pattern is that Wazza is replacing all the creative players (or there are rumours around them - Arzani) with serviceable workers. I can't see how this fits with CFG's stated philosophy

not convinced at all this was an 'us' doing. I think he wasnt give game time, and Gombau pounced. We couldnt stand in his way. Hopefully he doesnt turn into another player whom we dont get the best out of, but others do.

Another Centreback

They have like 90% of their players out. 3-0 win or sack wazza on the spot.

Too early i fear. Man i'd love to see that walking legend back here.

Kenny Lowe is too entertaining to hate.

I have always wondered why the 'Loyalty Allowance' couldn't see a more immediate application. Something like an exponential increase, so that players have: 5% of their salary outside their cap in their second year 10% in their third year 20% in their fourth year, and so forth. With the money we're talking about in the A-League, this money is not likely to be monstrous. Given the small wage pool we are working with, once a player has established themselves in the A-League they're likely fielding offers from rivals for fractionally higher wages which can be hard to refuse when their current club cannot match due to cap constraints. In conjunction with the 'no transfer fees' rule, there is no reward for a player's current team for either developing or recruiting players into the league.

I keep seeing people that think we'll cut Bruno next, based on nothing other than their opinion and perception that Wazza doesnt like 'flair' players. Now to me that seems a pretty stupid conclusion, esp given as Chelo and Cahill asked to leave due to insufficient game time (that most would say was due to availability and team balance) and Brandan was cut due to not looking like the same player post injury (whether that's fair or not is a judgement call). And obv a striker is a completely different position to midfield in regards to defensive duties, not to mention Bruno's work rate is far superior to any of the aforementioned players. But given i keep seeing it come up its obv a more popular opinion than im giving it credit for, does anyone actually think this is a serious possibility? If so, explain why.

IMO a major issue with players staying with an A-League club for a number of seasons or indeed an entire playing career is that the salary cap works against that being possible. Admittedly much non-unionised employment (generally) these days is on a contract basis, but when it was more on a "permanent" basis it was reasonable for a good performer to look forward to the annual salary review and the increase that that was likely to bring. With the salary cap, a player in most cases needs to change clubs to obtain a significant increase in remuneration. The "Loyalty Allowance" (the "Archie Thompson Rule") introduced last season is a mere $200,000 per club and a player needs to have stayed with a club for 5 seasons before it kicks in.

Oh i dont disagree but as it stands we only have one visa spot availble, which will go to ross if he stays. I strongly doubt bart, bruno or jako go so it would have to be Bud, which also makes the most sense. In saying that i could be wrong and ferriera has an aus passport?

Interesting. My history of watching boom markets is they get very volatile just before the crash. My tip: lock in profits as you go

I'm not saying it should, more saying that this sort of news is not part of a typical week in crypto markets.

Scored a goal against Syria in the U23'S via a header, in other news, it looked like Tongyik scored an own goal. Nope, it was Deng, suck on that victards!

For every player like Tim Cahill, Fernando Brandan and Marcelo Carrusca that the club or Joyce decides to release, expectations are raised to expect equal or better players to replace them. I’ll reserve my judgments until the end of the month about whether these squad changes are good or not. However, at the moment, I believe we need a significant injection of talent to make up for the players that we have lost.

I, for one, thought it was classic banter. Hats off

Has he played for Adelaide?

It will make the tards pissed so that's a plus.

Wouldn't be surprised to see Atkinson given a rest actually, or maybe bench.

We're making a really good fringe socceroos squad for 4 years ago. Galekovic, vidosic, bozanic. All we need now is Ben halloran and James Holland and we're set

Second ep is up. https://player.whooshkaa.com/episode?id=167577

Hmm i doubt he'd be approved for a guest stint. He's hardly putting bums on seats is he. Rumour was he was on 45k pounds a week when he signed for Villa which works out as 77k a week so I guess 400k wont go too far. Spose they could try to renegotiate the contract somewhat as obv somewhere around 400k for the last 10 games could be achievable. Probably a tricky one to work out.

Malik is a midfielder. He's definitely NOT a defender.

We are going to have defenders and attackers and that’s it. With Brattan in the middle of the park. All new signings must be British or Australian preferably with Anglo heritage

Lol there is no way Joyce wasn’t involved in all of this off seasons’ signings. He was there from the start. anyway he wasn’t getting game time so no surprise he wanted to move on.

All Bruno’s mates are leaving

Definitely clearing space on the roster. Incoming plus securing Ross I'd imagine. Won't be centre backs unless departures are planned amongst our current CB roster as we're really strong here. More likely wingers or midfield.

I told ya all our signings were made before joyce/without his approval

It made me care 100% less about stories

The only thing I'll point out is that as I understand it FFA does have to approve marquee players as being such. So I don't think that a club can independently move players around from one category to another. So, for example, if we wanted to move Marcin back under the cap (if we have room) for this season in order to sign another marquee (say Ross), FFA would have to approve that.

So at the halfway point of our 6 game January stint we've got 6 from a possible 9. Now we look at the next 3 Mariners away, Adelaide home and Jets home. I've really got not idea. We have won well in our last 2 but to be fair against probably the 2 weakest teams but dropped points to an equally poor side (at the time we played them in Wanderers ) so for me the next 3 games will decide our fate for the season. Maximum points and we close the gap to second to 2 points (assuming Jets continue winning) but anything less with see us looking over our shoulder and battling to finish in the top 4. For me the jury is out and after a couple wins my expectations rise and hope returns and who knows maybe I was wrong all along. Interesting next 3 games that's for sure. I Love being a City supporter I go from a desperate negative SOB to a delusional dreamer in the space of 90 minutes plus stoppage time.

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In addition our 2 goals both came from set-pieces.... one should have not even been a penalty. We won because Perth gave us our two goals. Look, Im happy that we won in Perth and broke our duck. I just dont think we should be getting ahead of ourselves.

TTDIM: Nelly Yoa

World class free kick taker. That one tonight was set up for a left footer. No worries, bangs it in on his right anyway. He’s what running at about .75 goals a game? Handy return.