Mirjan Pavlovic

I do wonder if the Phoenix paid out the remainder of Mirjan's contract, or, as the term 'mutual consent' is generally used, Mirjan has agreed to forgo some if not all of the remainder of his contract. I hope that whatever Mirjan is going through that the Phoenix honoured the remainder of the contract as it seems, and what we have been lead to believe "Mirjan Pavlovic (medical condition – indefinite)" every week, that it may be some time until he is able to play professionally again. IMHO the Phoenix has come across a little heartless in this situation, in the initial press release highlighting the medical condition there was not a "we hope for a speedy recovery" or a "our thoughts are with him during this difficult time":

That's what makes me think its something the nix weren't happy with. Also the condition that didnt allow him to play football proffessionally,followed by the recent wishing him well in his career. it is oddly inconsistent,and quite cold. That is pure speculation however. They could have just been deliberately vague so as to give no clue away. 

Not sure why some of you feel the need to be advised of the reason why.His contract is over end of.Has nothing what so ever to do with any of us and some of you are really sick FKRs.

Yellow fever supportors of the Wellington Phoenix,more like gossip FKN junkies.

Why is it sick to be curious about a strange occurrence? Nobody is demanding to be told what happened. 

Who says he's down? You can't say that without facts either. 

You want people to act like his contract is just terminated,in which case people are fine to voice their opinion on him as a player. 

The fact that all of this is strange has obviously gotten people curious. There's nothing wrong with that either. 

I agree with you.  Wishing him all the best. 

Seems a little off to me.

No mention at all of his medical condition in the release. You'd think that they would say he can not play and has chosen to stay at home.

I'm allowed to be cynical with this one, think he's one hundred percent fine, and hope he can find a deal in asia with Daniel. I wish him the best of luck!

Uhh I never said that. I said that we don't know what's happened other than his contract has been terminated. 

I have it on good authority that the medical condition has been confirmed as two left feet.

I would agree he was absolute rubbish, though I also heard that the man himself thought he was rather good. So, delusional AND rubbish.

Nobody says its their right to know what's going on. They're just commenting on how he was a footballer and how his leaving as strange. 

Fairly predicable given how the club have handled it. 

I gotta back up Tegal on this one. If someone wants to tell me, great. If not, well there is a reason a cat has 9 lives - curiosity.

Fixed. 

Thought Pav was good value with limited opps. Really wish him well.

highlights from the NSWPL looked good, could have enjoyed the new playing style this year, working with Steiny et al...Still wasn't able to offer much while he was here, never really came good on his promise to score a bagfull despite a few moments,was signed on the basis that he managed to hold the ball up playing back to goal against Bocca Juniors. 

All the best. 

Possibly marginally better than Troy Hearfield!

i miss pav already, he gave our game an unpredictable-batshit-crazy kinda feel to it that I thought brought the world game further along than any false 9 nonsense.

He was the closest thing the A-League had to Mario Balotelli.

Pav also made a joke on his status saying playing under one of his friends would be a "step forward" rather than under Herbert.. 

read into that what you will

I think perhaps not disclosing the reasons behind his contract being terminated could be detrimental to his career..

Because now it could be anything - and any potential employer would think "hmmmm maybe I like the kid - but he has this mystery condition which prevents him from playing football professionally, so here I go and sign Leilei Gao instead".

Whereas if they did know what was wrong with him - and wanted to sign him still - they could have an idea of what they're buying into.

Finally, I personally don't buy into this moralistic crap I've been reading. In my book when you choose to become a professional footballer - this is part of what you get. And the circumstances around his contract being terminated are weird at best, so I don't see why we can't be curious.

^ this

High horses with very precious people riding them around here. 

No reason at all why we can't speculate. 

I fear it is something less scandalous unfortunately... my two cents said he hated it here, he thinks he's better than he is, so he expected more opportunity from Ricki but didn't get it. He enjoyed chilling with his mates and banging about in Sydney, so he rang up and said I don't wanna come back. Phoenix p*ssed off but happy they don't have to pay him anymore, contract terminated, and also explains the nature of the released statements. Win/win for both parties then?

I think deformation law may say otherwise.

Ah so he lost one of his left feet? 

(I'm kidding,don't sue me)

Speculation isn't necessary truth though.

double standards from those calling for zero speculation. 

Unless we want to start banning/ removing a comment whenever we refer to a player as a donkey or thug because be don't actually know jack shit or know the players personally. 

I dont think he had a medical condition that pervented him from playing football persoanlly