Rest of A-League Transfer (Now with 99% RR - Love your work)

Rumour is Neill to Heart.

Maybe they missed the pens on purpose. Hardly the same player he was at Rovers anymore.

He did.

 This sucks....again

It's thought that Football Federation Australia would be willing to help fund any club who brings Neill back to Australia, given the player's iconic stature in Australia after playing in two World Cups and making 89 appearances for the national team.

Lucas Neill signs with Sydney FC 

Thanks FFA for another $ydney signing.

It's a fucking joke.

Let's have a salary cap and instead of clubs rorting it, let's pay for them to breach it.  One rule for Sydney and another rule for everyone else.

Level playing field my fucking arse.  The FFA having so much money tied up in Del Piero they are now funding the rest of Sydney FC to make them strong enough to make the play-offs and the del Piero marketing dollars.

Why would anyone choose to fund any other A-League side when the Sydney sides are effectively FFA FC.

Was having a chat with a Sydney fan on twitter regarding Carle coming back. He reckons they have planned to keep enough cap space to have him as a non marquee player next season. I can't for the life of me see how, unless those on contract for next season barely take up the minimum spend for the salary cap.

Is Lucas Neill a bigger asset to the A-League than Carlos Hernandez?

Like fuck he is.

Where's our handout?

Seems Neill is on a guest stint.

I have no idea about next season but it seems that Neill is a guest player for the remainder of this season. It also looks like guest players are available for finals if they play a minimum of 4 games before the final series.

They just need to be registered before the 4th last round of the season. Really seems a bit of a salary cap rort to try and make the finals.

When you can have nearly over half of your starting side not counting toward the salary cap, it makes it a bit of a joke. Then you add FFA funding certain sides to bring players in and it becomes even more of a joke. 

Only 3 and have 150k uncapped to spread over your 3 youth players. But I do think the rules need to be reviewed. Not sure Guest stints are needed now.

 Lucas Neill to Sydney

http://espnfc.com/news/story/_/id/1342130/lucas-neill-completes-a-league-move?cc=3436

Oh &

 *A ‘Guest Player’ must play a minimum of four matches during the regular season before being eligible to play in the finals.

So as long as Neill can avoid a three game ban for abusing the refs (he's playing for Sydney, so of course he'll abuse them), then he'll be eligible.

It would be interesting if he got sent off for violent conduct. Would the FFA throw away their investment by giving him a fair ban?

They piss themselves laughing, watching him try play football?

If the FFA are gonna continually put money toward attracting players, I think the least they should do is announcement how much they are contributing.

 is Neill the idiot who took down Gross in his own penaltly box when the Aussies played Italy at WC 2006?

One of the few times I enjoyed watching the boys take a dive and being rewarded for it (not so much when De Rossi went down and Italy got the equalizer vs NZ in 2010)

I have to say in some respects I don't have an issue with this from the angle of:

The owners of Sydney are prepared to invest in players to make it a better league. They will have spent well over the cap easily. It's not fundamentally right for fairness but there is an owner in Sydney that has fronted up and put his money where his mouth is and the FFA have come to the party somewhat.

Now we as a team have no real right to bitch or ask for handouts. What's the FFA going to say to us 'well your owners are not prepared to splash the cash on anyone to go outside of the cap with available exemptions to make the team better and a more marketable product so why should we?'

yeah, I think you have a point. Effectively the FFA doing this could be considered an incentive for other clubs to try and get bigger-name signings to increase the quality and profile of the competition.

That's the key issue. Suppose a scenario in which Welnix were prepared to pay over the odds to attract Neill to Wellington: would FFA throw money into the hat for us? I feel 99% sure they wouldn't.

While I completely understand FFA's strategy of pumping money into the Sydney teams for the long term sake of the league it still makes a mockery of the basic principle of the level playing field which was the whole point of the salary cap in the first place.

 This

Yeah it's a complete load of bollocks. My question to the masses:

What noise is the Phoenix management making about it? I'll take odds on sweet fuck all 

#dropnuts

Quick, someone tell Gareth Morgan they saw Lucas Neill eating a fantail!!!

I think this is a very reasonable point - it would be good if the fan groups of clubs not benefiting from this largesse could try and force this point through twitter etc

CCM were trying to sign a former Japanese international player but it broke down because they couldn't afford a transfer fee. Maybe they should have asked the FFA for help signing him.

So far only Sydney (Emmo, ADP and Neill) and Victory (Kewell) has had help. Maybe if they started helping the smaller market teams, it might not cause so much angst.

Also WSW with Ono and the extra import slot. 

If the FFA had helped us, we could have signed Ryan Nelsen

...and I don't thin Tinkler-toes is paying all of Heskey's salary either.

Not sure he is paying many things these days.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/football/roars-stef-nijland-caught-in-the-middle/story-fnec4zuc-1226611961937

"Nichols is also off contract, but Mulvey is happy to delay talks with the midfielder until the end of the season, despite interest from rival clubs, including Sydney FC."

Would have thought he would head to the Victory. And where is Sydney getting the space in the salary cap? They have Carle coming back under the cap already.

Being reported that Craig Goodwin is to have a trial with Reading.

So Colosimo back to Sydney? They are after another CB. Doesn't sound like Adam Griffiths will be retained.