Pelligra's Glory FC

In ex Glory player news, van der Brink's deal in India collapsed. 

But Sage refuted Ferguson's weekend claims that Glory were being underfunded this season.

"I don't agree with that," said Sage. "He had the full support of finances. He assembled his squad by June 30. That squad cost $3.2 million. The salary cap is $2.5 million, so I can't understand a comment like that.

"I take that as a slight on the club. We are $700,000 more. If you go to at least five clubs, they pay underneath the salary cap, and we were $700,000 over the salary cap.

Perth Glory goalkeeper Danny Vukovic has been granted a dream opportunity to trial with English Premier League club Fulham.

Vukovic, 28, will leave Perth today to link up with the west London club, which sits in the top half of the EPL table.

Perth Glory midfielder Steven McGarry has put pen to paper signing with the club until the end of the 2013/14 Hyundai A-League season.

Perth Glory have also further bolstered their squad with two additional signings with youth internationals Cameron Edwards and Jack Duncan.

Father son combo 

Perth Glory is delighted to announce the signing of 19-year-old rising star Jamie Maclaren.
The gifted attacker was one of Australia's stand-outs during last month's Under-20 FIFA World Cup, scoring a stunning goal against Turkey and having opted to end his four-year spell with English club Blackburn Rovers, rejected overtures from a host of top European and Australian clubs to pen a three-year deal with Glory.

Interesting. Him and Smeltz up front?

Im not sure. Smeltz hasn't really been that good as part of a front 2.

Sounds like he can play wider or in behind?
Do you know much of him from Blackburn RR?

I know for Aussie they fit him in with Taggart so not sure if that means he was wide if they had a front 2

Perth Glory is delighted to announce that attacking midfielder/striker Ryo Nagai has rejoined the club on a season-long loan from J-League outfit, Cerezo Osaka.

Soccer club Perth Glory has dumped its fast food and soft drink sponsorship in exchange for $500,000 in taxpayers' money to promote anti-obesity messages.

The deal, due to be announced today, will result in the team getting up to $250,000 a year in the 2013-14 and 2014-15 A-League seasons from State Government-funded Healthway to advertise the Heart Foundation's LiveLighter campaign.

It follows a seven-year hiatus when Glory missed out on Healthway money it had previously received because it started being sponsored by fast-food chain Chicken Treat and Schweppes soft drink Solo.

Under the deal, Perth Glory will forgo sponsorship promoting junk food or alcohol and its continuing agreement with Schweppes can only promote bottled water.

The team's players will carry the LiveLighter message on the back of their shirts and advertise it through stadium signs, promotions at two home games, plus logos on all marketing material.

The anti-fat message will also be marketed through its Youth League team.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/sport/a/-/soccer/18603240/glory-in-dilemma-over-state-of-pitch/ Headline is way off. Nothing to do with the pitch. Hard to understand why the stadium won't budge.

Its only a matter of about 12hrs isn't it? Really shocking that a compromise can't be reached.

Unless PG have already somehow stuffed that relationship. That could explain it, maybe Jacob Burns had something to do with it.

Neil Sherwin @neilsherwin

Major player announcement for Glory tomorrow morning at around 11.45am. Should be interesting. #aleague

Called it. 

SST apology on the cards? Doubt it.