Ando Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Former Nigerian striker out of contract at Tranmere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jw1739 Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 (edited) Don't expect increased crowds this year with those signings. Absolutely. What I see is a disconnect between the words and actions (or inactions) from Heart HQ. Remember this from JA on 9th May? 'New Head Coach John Aloisi has made the recruitment of a midfield enforcer his number one priority after taking over the reins of Melbourne Heart FC yesterday.... "Our sitting midfield, our No.6 that controls a game, can break up a game when opposition gets on top of you, is a key position we’re looking for at the moment." With three visa spots available, Aloisi said Heart will certainly look abroad in its search for the necessary spark to catapult the Red and White to the next level. “We're looking at a few players. We need to make sure the foreigners we pick up are the right ones. We are hoping by the start of pre-season in June our squad will be full,” he said. IMO it was reasonable for supporters to take those words at their face value, and to expect that by now there would be some evidence of some quality signings. Edited June 18, 2012 by jw1739 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Libero Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 lol. fuck all has happened in 2 months. our only signing has been Kappa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sash Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 (edited) We've obviously been talking to player agents about international signings. But for whatever reason, players haven't been prepared to sign yet. As far as I know, all signings in the league so far have been GC players finding new homes and a few players moving between A League clubs. Other clubs are looking to sign internationals also, (Victory and WS at least) but I don't think anyone has yet. It would appear that for whatever reason, it's difficult to close the deals right now. Two points about this. 1 - it's probably holding up other signings because it would make sense to organise our bigger international signings first before we fill the rest of the squad with whatever locals we'll need. 2 - I've got no problem at all with the club not leaking or telegraphing who we're talking to and how those negotiations are going. I don't want other clubs knowing who we're talking to. We missed out on Solorzano last year when Victory made a last minute offer. Keeping negotiations secret is important in my opinion. So you're all just going to have to be patient and suck it up. Let's just hope when the signings happen, they're good ones. Edited June 18, 2012 by Sash Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LR9 Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Pretty much, don't raise your expectations to highly. I'm expecting something like: GK: Bolton, Redmayne DF: Marrone, Behich, Colosimo, Hamill, Good, Steven Gray MF: Fred, Thompson, Kalmar, Germano, Hofman, Glen Trifiro, International Defensive Mid FWD: Williams, Dugandzic, Golgol Mebrahtu, Nate Foster, Local or Int Forward Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heart_fan10 Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Pretty much, don't raise your expectations to highly. I'm expecting something like: GK: Bolton, Redmayne DF: Marrone, Behich, Colosimo, Hamill, Good, Steven Gray MF: Fred, Thompson, Kalmar, Germano, Hofman, Glen Trifiro, International Defensive Mid FWD: Williams, Dugandzic, Golgol Mebrahtu, Nate Foster, Local or Int Forward not good enough to win the league tbh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandev Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Went down to watch training this afternoon. Noticed a 6'7" fellow banging goals in from everywhere. I am excite. What time is training? Bugger had the day off today and could have swung by.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sash Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Does anyone know if clubs have to spend a certain amount of the salary cap? In the AFL, clubs have to spend at least 92.5% or something like that. If that's the case, we still have room for at least couple of good signings I would've thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Libero Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Local or Int Forward Zac Walker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vostro Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Does anyone know if clubs have to spend a certain amount of the salary cap? In the AFL, clubs have to spend at least 92.5% or something like that. If that's the case, we still have room for at least couple of good signings I would've thought. i think its 85% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sash Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 i think its 85% Thanks. Hope we're looking to use the full cap, but who knows. Wouldn't be surprised if it's just the 85% the way things are looking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Former Nigerian striker out of contract at Tranmere didn't he sign at notts county a week ago? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malloy Posted June 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 didn't he sign at notts county a week ago? I was under that impression aswell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ando Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Incorrect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malloy Posted June 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Incorrect. We are talking about Showumni right? http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18414535 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharpy Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Knowing this club I dare say Gray, Del Solar and Foster will fill our international spots. Bookmark it! Ben Foster? But we already have Bolton and Redmayne... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharpy Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Former Nigerian striker out of contract at Tranmere What nationality is he now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ando Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 What nationality is he now? Naturalised Swiss citizen last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharpy Posted June 18, 2012 Report Share Posted June 18, 2012 Naturalised Swiss citizen last year. Get him and we get Grella, would both have intense conversations about cheese. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jw1739 Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 Ben Foster? But we already have Bolton and Redmayne... Not Ben Foster. Nate Foster, Canadian, from Dandenong Thunder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jw1739 Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 BTW, I see Vedran Janjetkovic, 24 y-o GK we took to Hawaii, has been picked up by Sydney... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesla Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 So, are we the only team that hasnt signed anyone during the off season? (Redmayne was announced last season) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DutchPride Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 Yup, and in no way does it bother me just yet, July will be the business month. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesla Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 I held a similar view DP, but dunno, starting to get a bit concerned now since apprently we did make offers for players and they didnt sign with us. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DutchPride Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 (edited) Really? Source? Or was it only regarding Vedran Janjetkovic yes, who says we did make an offer, we may have just taken him to Hawaii, and that doesn't concern me if we did make him an offer as he was at Sydney FC youth previously. Edited June 19, 2012 by DutchPride Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heart_fan10 Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 we made offers/were in talk with halloran, vidosic, manny muscat, Daniel (from Wellington), Goodwin, and Madaschi (not sure if I'm missing anyone) and none of them signed. I really viewed this off season as a massive opportunity for us to build a title winning squad, and I'm feeling less confident as every day goes by and more players are heading to western Sydney and finding other clubs, while we haven't heard ANYTHING about who we're targetting since aloisi was appointed as coach. For example: Shannon cole was signed for 60k on a 1 year deal from west Sydney. That's nothing for a player of his quality and age. don't know why we didn't even consider someone like him tbh. I guess we're too interested in looking at Steven gray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jw1739 Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 Really? Source? Or was it only regarding Vedran Janjetkovic yes, who says we did make an offer, we may have just taken him to Hawaii, and that doesn't concern me if we did make him an offer as he was at Sydney FC youth previously. Dutchy, I didn't say we made him an offer, just that we took him to Hawaii. The announcement is on the HAL web-site. Interpret my post as you wish, but seems to me we have some issues around our selection of goalkeepers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DutchPride Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 Nah I know, my post was in reply to Tesla, I just assumed he was talking about Vedran Janjetkovic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastfly100 Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 have we signed Golgol Mebrahtu? or just a rumor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tesla Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 I was thinking of Halloran and Dilevski when I made my post but heart_fan10 has a few more names there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belaguttman Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 we made offers/were in talk with halloran, vidosic, manny muscat, Daniel (from Wellington), Goodwin, and Madaschi (not sure if I'm missing anyone) and none of them signed. I really viewed this off season as a massive opportunity for us to build a title winning squad, and I'm feeling less confident as every day goes by and more players are heading to western Sydney and finding other clubs, while we haven't heard ANYTHING about who we're targetting since aloisi was appointed as coach. For example: Shannon cole was signed for 60k on a 1 year deal from west Sydney. That's nothing for a player of his quality and age. don't know why we didn't even consider someone like him tbh. I guess we're too interested in looking at Steven gray We didn't make an offer to Madaschi, he arrived with an pre-existing contract to play in the K-League. Lucky for us there was a few months before he started there and we got him on that basis, as a short-term injury replacement. He indicated that he wanted to stay but he already had a contract that MH would have had to buy out as well as pay him a salary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sash Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 have we signed Golgol Mebrahtu? or just a rumor? He's on trial and should be training with us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sash Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 (edited) we made offers/were in talk with halloran, vidosic, manny muscat, Daniel (from Wellington), Goodwin, and Madaschi (not sure if I'm missing anyone) and none of them signed. I really viewed this off season as a massive opportunity for us to build a title winning squad, and I'm feeling less confident as every day goes by and more players are heading to western Sydney and finding other clubs, while we haven't heard ANYTHING about who we're targetting since aloisi was appointed as coach. For example: Shannon cole was signed for 60k on a 1 year deal from west Sydney. That's nothing for a player of his quality and age. don't know why we didn't even consider someone like him tbh. I guess we're too interested in looking at Steven gray Halloran and Goodwin are good young players and I would've liked to sign. But Vidosic is contracted and Adelaide want to keep him, and Madaschi is contracted. Manny Muscat and Daniel are hardly players that will win a championship for us. Just because players are available doesn't mean we should be chasing them. If Sydney weren't prepared to offer Shannon Cole $60,000 to keep him, how good can he be? Apart from Halloran and Thwaite, I'm not sure we've really missed out on much yet. The important signings that will make a difference next season will hopefully be 2 or 3 good overseas players that we've made space for by releasing Shroj, Terra, Worm and Maycon. Edited June 19, 2012 by Sash 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 We need to build a strong squad able to challenge for honours. There is no point in having a first XI and make the rest up with youth/VPL players. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jw1739 Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 Today 19th June SM tweeted 'Yes next week or two' in response to a question '...signings are we close?' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heart_fan10 Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 about time. I'm guessing it'll be the week starting Monday 2nd of July that signings will be announced we should hear something in the newspapers soon about who it is that we're expecting to announce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastfly100 Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 would you be happy if Lucas Neil signed for the club? interested in coming back to the a-league probably wont come to heart but still interested to hear people thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wombegongal Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 I still have faith that the club can deliver. I really don't see the point in rushing into the market to make some signings to keep us happy (short term) over the offseason. I'd much rather a holistic approach that included a.) making sure the players are a fit for the club philosophy, b.) add to the club in someway both on and off the field (ie team mentality) and c.) we get these players on the right wage. If we really want to stick to our ideals and develop players I'm not expecting big names to flood in but a blend of experienced professionals who can ply their trade and pass it onto young talented players. We are still in our infancy and I'm expecting us to improve againt this season if we can recruit well. p.s. looking forward to some signings and awaiting forum rage and rants. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Libero Posted June 19, 2012 Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 would not take Luca$h. not even that good TBH, shouldnt be in that Australian team, let alone the captain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malloy Posted June 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2012 would not take Luca$h. not even that good TBH, shouldnt be in that Australian team, let alone the captain. would still do alright at a-league level imo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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