Dynamo_Melb_Warrior Posted February 10, 2012 Report Share Posted February 10, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI4I0ZyWRcw&feature=related Would this guy be beneficial? Rumours about him are always around, I think he is a finisher and could be someone we could benefit greatly from. Whether he is the right fit is another thing. Is only 28 years of age. Born in Sydney too so would he count as an Aussie? Scored an Impressive 41 goals from 78 games for River Plate from 2001 to 2007. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baresi Posted February 11, 2012 Report Share Posted February 11, 2012 Was talk about Porta in the preseason iirc. Would definitely take him in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dynamo_Melb_Warrior Posted February 11, 2012 Report Share Posted February 11, 2012 Get rid of Worm, Terra, Maycon for starters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocco Jones Posted February 11, 2012 Report Share Posted February 11, 2012 Maycon- obviously has to go, no doubt about that Worm- can offer us something when on song but too often just completely drifts out of games. We also have young options out wide. Terra- I actually think he offers us something different. If he is happy to sign a modest contract than I would be happy with him staying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DutchPride Posted February 11, 2012 Report Share Posted February 11, 2012 Terra stay, Worm, Maycon & the board out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dynamo_Melb_Warrior Posted February 11, 2012 Report Share Posted February 11, 2012 Why should Terra stay? I mean, just on his performances whilst when he scores they are special, for mine he it is to infrequent and to be honest he is quite lazy. I think with import spots we need players that can come in and at least be consistent and provide leadership. I would not lose any sleep to see him go. Knowing what we need, we are better served going out and getting players more in need. That's just my opinion anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DutchPride Posted February 11, 2012 Report Share Posted February 11, 2012 At least he offers more than any of the others, when he's playing well he provides a lift to the whole team & more creativity. I doubt we'll let all three go to be honest & he'd be the one out of the three that would get the nod to stay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Attila Posted February 11, 2012 Report Share Posted February 11, 2012 (edited) Though I don't believe he should stay, out of the three he will be the most likely to get the extension, seeing as JVS is leaving that should be it for Worm. Edited February 11, 2012 by Callumh123 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toogood18 Posted February 11, 2012 Report Share Posted February 11, 2012 Guys who are calling for the board settle down, it isn't Greece or Italy for goodness sake! Maycon, Worm and Terra too are pretty much out the door! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Posted February 11, 2012 Report Share Posted February 11, 2012 Terra has been good the last few weeks but was pretty much anonymous up until then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammerhead Posted February 11, 2012 Report Share Posted February 11, 2012 Random hypothetical thinking here. What would you guys think of Landon Donovan on loan next year? Sure we'd only have him for a couple months but he'd be a very handy attacking midfielder who would fairly consistently score goals. Everton basically got him as a freebie this season and would hopefully not cost us a whole lot either. Has clauses in his contracts for loan arrangements and mentioned he's consider an A-league move following the match against the Visitors so could be possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DutchPride Posted February 11, 2012 Report Share Posted February 11, 2012 WE NEED TO: Sign someone similar to Madaschi. Ogneovski please. SIgn an attacking minded playmaker, using Fred as a box-to-box instead of both. Sign a striker that scores week in week out, a natural finisher. And then of course depending if players don't sign a contract & move on, sign replacements (Marrone?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jw1739 Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 (edited) WE NEED TO: Sign someone similar to Madaschi. Ogneovski please. SIgn an attacking minded playmaker, using Fred as a box-to-box instead of both. Sign a striker that scores week in week out, a natural finisher. And then of course depending if players don't sign a contract & move on, sign replacements (Marrone?) Pretty much consensus on this I would say. Also, ALL those whose contracts are expiring at the end of this season should be critically reviewed in terms of their performance against what the club believed were their capabilities when they were signed. And there should be no fear or favour in this process. Those who are assessed as not measuring up should be released. Our new coach then should match our style of play to the capabilities of the new squad, not try and shoehorn players into a predetermined mould. I'd much prefer us to go into next season with the minimum sized squad of 21, leaving us some room to move during the season. And try to get a decent guest player for 10 games to spark the place up a bit. I would suggest that in Jeremy Walker we have our future RB. Edited February 12, 2012 by jw1739 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
11v11 Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 Jeremy Walker would make a good future right back. Very attacking minded player and runs his guts out. Hopefully he can get a run before the season ends. If Marrone goes back to Italy J. Walker would be one to look at as a squad player as he could play right back or wing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cammo Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 http://m.442.com.au/News/Article.aspx?CIID=290020 David Carney has terminated his one-year contract with AD Alcorcon in Spain's second division after failing to hold down a regular spot in the team. According to the report, Carney is in the market for a new club, with Dubai and China said to be frontrunners. A return to the A-League, however, wouldn't be out of the question. ---- Out Worm, In Carney. Do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DutchPride Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 As long as he doesn't play LB, sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dynamo_Melb_Warrior Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 Would eat an enormous amount of our salary cap and funds, is he a vital player, or a player I would say would be part of the spine? In replacing Rutger, we can get his output or even upgrade him with local Australian talent on the cheap. Where we need to invest is in the core areas. A Defender with Experience and Leadership is vital. A Striker who can consistently find the back of the net or a Midfielder that can control the tempo of the game. Those three area's are where we need to heavily invest our funds, the rest can be got by the scouting local network we have. I mean for wingers we have enough talent already in our ranks for next season. Behich, Dugandzic, Zahra, Goodwin, Marrone and a few youth upgrades. No need to spend the majority on our funds for those positions. Hence why I say getting rid of blokes like Worm and Terra would be no real concern to me as they don;t contribute enough for taking up the position they do on our squad. With the likes of JVS going, releasing Worm, Terra, Maycon, if we play it smart and invest the funds correctly, we can make a big impact next season. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downbylaw Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 Random hypothetical thinking here. What would you guys think of Landon Donovan on loan next year? Him joining us is like the chances of any of us pulling a 3sum with some victorias secret girls.....ain't gunna happen. He would tear the opposition a new...... Fantasy world is awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hammerhead Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 Fantasy world is awesome! I know right Was just watching last nights game against chelsea and thought, DAM! he's too good for MLS and would be handy if we had him 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dynamo_Melb_Warrior Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 http://m.442.com.au/...spx?CIID=290020 David Carney has terminated his one-year contract with AD Alcorcon in Spain's second division after failing to hold down a regular spot in the team. According to the report, Carney is in the market for a new club, with Dubai and China said to be frontrunners. A return to the A-League, however, wouldn't be out of the question. ---- Out Worm, In Carney. Do it. David Carney has signed for FC Bunyodkor in Uzbekistan. Just been posted by his agent on Twitter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baresi Posted February 12, 2012 Report Share Posted February 12, 2012 Isn't he just there on a trial? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marteaux Posted February 15, 2012 Report Share Posted February 15, 2012 With Cold Toast on the brink of extinction, what players would you like to poach from the squad? James Brown is off to Newcastle, so he's out of the equation. The only players in their team who will get another crack at the A-League are: - Ben Halloran - Michael Thwaite - Peter Junschlager (if he stays in Aus) - Glen Moss - Adama Traore And out of those, I'd love to have Ben Halloran, Michael Thwaite and Peter Junschlager. If we had these 3 players in our squad now, we'd be in the top 2. And yes I do know Thwaitey use to play for the Mongs, but he was one of the first at Victory to be frozen out without getting a fair go when they where under Merrick, like so many talented players after him (think Milicevic, Behich, and Dugandzic). Also: if we're looking to sign a reserve striker for next season, is Richie Cardozo still wasting away mountains of talent in the VPL? He is a straight up GOAL machine. If he's out of the equation, Trent Rixon and Jean Charles Dubois should suffice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christian7 Posted February 15, 2012 Report Share Posted February 15, 2012 Harold and a couple youth players from the Gold Coast will also be a really good pick up I would take Thwaite any day I think Cardozo has signed for a team overseas and the club tried signing Trent Rixon but he didnt accept the money they were offering him Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LR9 Posted February 15, 2012 Report Share Posted February 15, 2012 (edited) JCD is overseas, Richie is playing 2nd tier football in Austria and Rixon is on good money and happy at South Melbourne Edited February 15, 2012 by LR9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jw1739 Posted February 16, 2012 Report Share Posted February 16, 2012 Think we should be careful about signing/re-signing players until we have our new Senior Coach sorted. We've already got 14 on board for next season. Otherwise it doesn't give the new man much flexibility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dynamo_Melb_Warrior Posted February 16, 2012 Report Share Posted February 16, 2012 From what I have heard, reading between the lines, it looks like Milicic is the guy for the club want to replace JVS. I do not know how I feel about that to be perfectly honest. With that though comes a transition made easy. I would suspect and hope the football department already is working on the next season and in that, targets been identified and approached. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heart_fan10 Posted February 19, 2012 Report Share Posted February 19, 2012 with gold coast in a mess, it's obvious that GC players would be looking for contracts elsewhere. There are 2 players from the gold coast team that i see as players who we should be targeting. first player that would be extremely handy for us would be Thwaite. We need another expereienced CB, and thwaite definitely looks like the type of player that would do well with us. Second player that has caught my eye lately is Golgol Mebrahtu. Seems to be getting better with every game he plays, and i was impressed with his performance against us on friday. With Worm and Terra looking likely to leave at the end of the season, and with Ibrahim not really progressing as expected, we could do with another winger. He's very quick, comfortable on the ball, nice skills, good at set-pieces, you can tell he's very confident in how he plays and always looking to try and create things. The fact that he is also fairly tall is a positive because we have a lot of shorter players and we need to get some bigger bodies in the squad. There's no doubt he needs some work in the final third when it comes to finishing, and needs a bit of compsure, but with a good pre-season he could really improve those areas of his game. Only 21 years old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LR9 Posted February 19, 2012 Report Share Posted February 19, 2012 :| 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marteaux Posted February 19, 2012 Report Share Posted February 19, 2012 Couldn't score in a Vietnamese brothel though. Would love to have Thwaite though.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baresi Posted February 19, 2012 Report Share Posted February 19, 2012 Ben Halloran is a quality player that I wouldn't mind us picking up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belaguttman Posted February 19, 2012 Report Share Posted February 19, 2012 Thwaite or Rees woud be useful. Rees has also scored from set pieces and corners, one area of the game where we offer almost no threat at the moment. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocco Jones Posted February 20, 2012 Report Share Posted February 20, 2012 Ben Halloran is a quality player that I wouldn't mind us picking up. Me too but apparently one of the only players/only player contacted beyond this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toogood18 Posted February 22, 2012 Report Share Posted February 22, 2012 Sign Iain Fyfe now, he is what we need. He has just been released as Matt Mckay has come in for him at Busan L'Park. This would be awesome if we could sign him, could really be a rock at the back for us http://au.fourfourtwo.com/news/232439,mckay-moves-at-fyfes-expense.aspx 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marteaux Posted February 24, 2012 Report Share Posted February 24, 2012 Agree. He could definitely do a job for us down back, but whether he is willing to return to the A-League after such a short spell in Korea is yet to be known. Koreans are mental over Aussie defenders thanks to Sasa Ogenovski, so we'll see how things play out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt Slunt Posted February 24, 2012 Report Share Posted February 24, 2012 What do we think? If you were manager and could make an enquiry toward any (REALISTIC) player (ie: not messi, tevez etc) in the world, who would it be? My question is, how much would Shevchenko be these days? Surely not much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malloy Posted February 24, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2012 Thomas Paulus Central defender for FC Erzgebirge Aue who ply their trade in the 2nd bundesliga I beleive his contract expires at the end of the current season 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt Slunt Posted February 24, 2012 Report Share Posted February 24, 2012 Thomas Paulus Central defender for FC Erzgebirge Aue who ply their trade in the 2nd bundesliga I beleive his contract expires at the end of the current season Nice one- we need some depth at full back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yelawolf Posted February 24, 2012 Report Share Posted February 24, 2012 we have to raid Gold Coast Thwaite anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Libero Posted February 24, 2012 Report Share Posted February 24, 2012 i was thinking Halloran from Gold Coast. young, talented player who can score goals. nothing wrong with that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dynamo_Melb_Warrior Posted February 24, 2012 Report Share Posted February 24, 2012 Halloran is contracted, only way of getting him is if GC fall. Reading Aloisi's chat thing in the Herald Sun he mentions transfer dealings are already underway and they are looking to improve certain areas. Interesting, he sounded like a man in control of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts