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  1. Marquee spot should go to Bort imo. Tie him down now with a sizeable contract and make him captain.
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  2. Bullshit he's skill isn't about money. The man had never had a poor team
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  3. meanwhile Rafa Benitez working miracles with a fucking dogshit squad at Newcastle
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  4. IMO we'll get rid of Tongyik and Kamau, offer a similar contract to Fitzy (which is up to him if he takes it) and retain Mauk and Brattan. I think Bud will likely go, but its possible (unlikely) he is retained under the cap. La Rocca will be dependent on whether its a relationship scenario, or he really has been injured the whole time, whilst i think Muscat and Galekovic are maybe touch and go types. Bozanic might be retained for the right price, although is arguable surplus to requirements with a visa 6. I'm reasonably confident we'll take Liam Rose, and if Fitzy goes we may take one of Powell or Skapetis. IMO we will likely sign Gulum, which means Jako is probably gone, meaning we have a visa marquee spot and visa spot available. IMO our marquee needs to be a winger from Asia and the other visa an 8 or 10. Not overly fussed with the second visa. Three marquee quality visas in Bruno, Bart and *asian marquee winger* should keep us in really good stead with current squad, with the other two visas complimentary to the squad. 2017-18 SQUAD TO DATE: 13th February 2018 Number Name Contract until Goalkeepers. 1 Dean Bouzanis 31/5/20. 42 James Delianov (S) 31/5/19. Club web-site 30th March 2017. 18 Eugene Galekovic 31/5/19. Club web-site 16th June 2017. Defenders. 6 Osama Malik 31/5/18. 2 Manny Muscat 31/5/18. 22 Michael Jakobsen (V) 31/5/18. 36 Dylan Pieiras (S) 31/5/19. Club web-site 30th March 2017. 3 Scott Jamieson 31/5/21. Club web-site 3rd July 2017. 25 Iacopo La Rocca 31/5/19. Club web-site 15th July 2017. 34 Connor Metcalfe (S) 31/5/18. Club web-site 18th July 2017. 5 Bart Schenkeveld (V) 31/5/19. Club web-site 21st August 2017. 4 Harrison Delbridge 31/5/20. Club web-site 28th November 2017. -- Christian Cavallo 31/5/18 Club web-site 13th February 2018. Midfielders. 14 Daniel Arzani 31/5/18. 15 Denis Genreau (S) 31/5/20. Club web-site 30th March 2017. 35 Ramy Najjarine (S) 31/5/20. Club web-site 18th July 2017. 13 Stefan Mauk (L) 31/5/18. Club web-site 26th July 2017. 26 Luke Brattan (L) 31/5/18. Club web-site 1st August 2017. -- Oliver Bozanic 31/5/18 Club web-site 10th February 2018. Forwards. 23 Bruno Fornaroli (M,V) 31/5/19. 7 Nick Fitzgerald 31/5/18. 27 Marcin Budzinski (M,V) 31/5/19. Club web-site 18th September 2017. 10 Dario Vidosic 31/5/19. Club web-site 29th December 2017. 37 Nathaniel Atkinson 31/5/20. Club web-site 12th January 2018. -- Moudi Najjar (S) 31/5/19. Club web-site 13th February 2018. 2018/19 Team Bouzanis Atkinson Schenkeveld Gulum Jamieson Malik/Visa Brattan Vidosic Arzani Fornaroli Marquee Winger SUBS : Galekovic Visa CAM Mauk Malik/Visa Fitzy/Winger Delbridge Genreau, Najarine Cavallo Metcalfe Pierias Muscat Delianov Najjar Rose TLDR : our squad is in very, very good shape for next season
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  5. Hmmm, so how would Wazza rate?? https://www.theage.com.au/sport/soccer/guardiola-s-skill-is-not-just-about-money-20180418-p4za90.html Guardiola's skill is not just about money By Paul Hayward 18 April 2018 — 10:21am Every spring, we end up in a tangle over whether the manager of the year is the one with the silver pots or the one who turned water into wine with a side much higher in the table than they ought to be. Somehow underrated: Pep Guardiola's season with Manchester City should not be devalued. Photo: AP Trophy winners versus overachievers is an annual slanging match. This year's is Pep Guardiola against Sean Dyche. Thirty miles separate City's east Manchester Gulf state satellite and the unsponsored Turf Moor, home of the Clarets, who are a decent bet to finish above Arsenal in sixth position but are 35 points behind Guardiola's champions. Convention dictates that we say Burnley's whole team cost less than a City left-back and point out that the seventh-best team in the Premier League are not owned by a country or fuelled by sovereign wealth. For the purposes of gong allocation, we insist on choosing between Guardiola and Dyche as the manager most worthy of a black-tie coronation. The debate, however, is flawed. The fallacy is that one is merely achieving what money dictates, while the other is performing miracles of upward mobility. This myth needs debunking. Guardiola was not destined by a balance sheet to win the league with a 16-point margin five games from the finish any more than Tottenham Hotspur's massively lower net spend condemns them to relegation struggles. Plainly you get what you pay for in transfer fees and salaries, but you also end up where your manager's ability (or lack of it) steers you. Fans of West Bromwich Albion will concur. As each new detail about Guardiola's management style emerges, curmudgeons have reverted to the one comeback likely to cast doubt on his accomplishment. City, they say, are chequebook champions, as if every other Premier League winner was put together with sticky-back plastic and cereal boxes, like a Blue Peter toy. One detail particularly caught my eye. It was the claim that Guardiola lives in a "£2.7 million flat" in Manchester. If you live in a society where a Manchester flat can be bought for £2.7 million (or a flat anywhere), creative midfielders are probably going to cost £50 million. When we rail against grotesque inequalities and extravagance in football, we are really railing against our polarised economic culture - of which football is a very accurate expression. Sovereign wealth funds owning football is akin to their owning The Shard, or part of Heathrow airport or all our giant amusement parks. The idea that English football is a haven from globalisation - a refuge for community values - has been obliterated. Equally, an American speculator who runs a club by remote control is no more appealing as an ownership model than a Gulf state using the club as an international billboard, unless you extend the discussion to human rights, which, again, would have to include the whole of the British economy, with its laissez-faire financial system. It was predictable that some Manchester United fans should throw human rights at City. And these are not trivial concerns, except when weaponised for the sake of convenience by jealous Mancunians. Yet they cannot be held against Guardiola as a reason to make Dyche manager of the year, because what he has accomplished is hard; a different kind of hard to what Burnley have done - but still hard, because City could have been like United: a collection of expensive individuals with no animating spirit. They could have been like Paris St-Germain - a kind of luxury French boutique with no soul - or like Arsenal, flimsy and outmoded. The proof of Guardiola's brilliance this season can be seen in last season's campaign. All the mistakes he made last year, and all the manpower deficiencies that were apparent (goalkeeper, full-backs), were corrected, even if Liverpool have raised more doubts about Guardiola's ability to win the Champions League without Lionel Messi. City might have been decadent, inconsistent, clique-ridden, agent-disrupted, strolling rich kids. Instead, they are an extension of their manager's personality, as United were under Sir Alex Ferguson. So when Guardiola takes his place alongside Dyche, Rafael Benitez, David Wagner, Roy Hodgson, Jurgen Klopp, Chris Hughton and Eddie Howe (yes, the good-management list is long) in the annual beauty parade, he stands there as a football coach, not only as a spender of other people's money. His candidacy is based on improving individual players in a culture that generates scintillating football and fierce commitment. The scintillating football bit is beyond Dyche at Turf Moor, but he too extracts more than could reasonably be expected from his resources, which he also adds to through good judgment. At a smaller club, he can cultivate an image of himself as bigger than the team, in the sense that the club would be bereft if he left. Guardiola's selling point was that he alone could give City an identity, a grand design. But both he and Dyche are judged in the end on their coaching and management, which makes them more equal than their budgets suggest. In the past 10 years or so, Steve Coppell (twice), Alan Pardew, David Moyes and Howe have all been League Managers' Association manager of the year - which tells you where professional sympathies lie, with the overachievers as much as the trophy-gatherers. This gives Dyche a good shot at the prize. But to call it romance versus money is a gross underestimation of Guardiola's work at City. The Telegraph London
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  6. In celebration of my imminent qualification, heres a thread for your best (and worst) dad jokes. Here's a couple to kick it off. Why'd the Mexican push his wife off a cliff? Tequila A grasshopper walks into a bar. The bartender looks at him excitably and says "Hey, we have a drink named after you!" The grasshopper raises an eyebrow and says "what? Kevin?"
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  7. Missing_mooy_bart_sausage
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  8. Marquee to a defender whomst we already have on our books you reckon? I still think we have the potential to find a killer #10 or Fitzy replacement
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  9. We've had a very very good squad the last 3 seasons. Just needing 1 maybe 2 players being the mantra.
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  10. Pretty clear to me that there was a total disconnect between the specifications given to CFG on the type of marquee we were after and the preferences of the manager we ultimately appointed. A fuck-up in other words. We've gone the whole season with, in effect, just three visa players - Bruno/Ross, Jakobsen and Schenkeveld.
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  11. Yes. Seats correct too. Very happy with the "same seats" option.
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  12. you could change your user name to Missing_Moy_and_Bart
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  13. Who knows, his English wasn't great. He's like me when I try speak German, I'm slow and use random words to fill in the ones I don't know
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  14. Watched Nuna v Whittlesea today with Murdocca, brown and collosimo.
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  15. I don't tell dad jokes often. But when I do he laughs.
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