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

Yep but it circumvents whatever they are trying to circumvent in the US.

http://www.foxsports.com.au/football/a-league/david-villa-will-return-to-new-york-but-melbourne-city-still-hopeful-of-his-return-to-the-aleague/story-e6frf4gl-1227096964319

Was a shambles from the start.

Maybe thought the rubbish bin ice baths were beneith him?

It sounds like he will just miss the round 5 game. Still I feel Melbourne City going forward are probably going to get fucked around a bit. They have huge work to do if they want to rival the Victory in terms of support.

This isn't new news, is it? Don't understand why it is being reported as such. He was always going to go back to NYC to help his family settle etc. - was said in his first interview for the club..

Everyone knew that it was just a short stint.

It was originially meant to be a ten game stint but it now appears it might not be.

Josh Kennedy  to Melbourne City.

And if he makes the Socceroos Asian Cup squad as seems likely he won't be available until February.

Reports suggest he will be fit enough to play by January  - he's been injured since before the World Cup.

Note that Villa is a "guest player" according to A-League regulations - not a marquee  -the injured Koren is their marquee.

(A guest player can play up to 10 matches). Villa is only on loan from New York City.

There will be no problem with the financial aspects as City Football Group own both clubs (Melbourne City and New York City - as well as Man City). They'll just juggle things around.

It seems that Melbourne City knew some time ago that Villa was going to have to end his ten game guest stint prematurely but didn't make it public in order to drive season ticket and merchandise sales. Really dishonest.

Good opinion piece here:

http://www.theroar.com.au/2014/10/23/melbourne-cit...

Liam Miller released by Roar “by mutual consent”. So, er, yeah… #Aleague

— Kevin Airs (@KevinAirs442) October 30, 2014

Wow. Think they have someone decent in the pipeline? Otherwise what is going on in Brisbane??

Brisbane target Houssine Kharja:

Melbourne City FC have signed Socceroos striker Josh Kennedy as their Australian marquee for the 2014/15 and 2015/16 A-League seasons.

— Jason Pine (@pineyzb) November 6, 2014

and there are no strikers to be signed?

not unless you have the money city has. 

When is Kennedy arriving?

Western Sydney local Kearyn Baccus today joined the Western Sydney Wanderers as an injury replacement player for Wanderers striker Brendon Santalab.

Anderson asking for a release from CCM after being benched the last few weeks? Talk that Moss has lost the dressing room.

Well the rumor was that McGlinchey explicitly told the Mariners that he didn't want to play for Moss - and with some of the odd things he's been saying (dropped from a team because he wasn't greek) you can kind of see why.

karma is a bitch

http://www.news.com.au/sport/football/liam-miller-clears-air-after-shock-exit-from-brisbane-roar-and-denies-ever-having-a-calf-injury/story-fndm8jin-1227115914365?from=public_rss&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

By that time it will probably be too too late for Melbourne City.

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Former Melbourne Victory player Adama Traore got called up for the Ivory Coast team. Always thought he was a top player. Aussies must be spewing he wasn't eligible even after getting australian citizenship.

Best left back the A-league has ever had (harsh on cassio in his prime) in my opinion

Brockie to Malaysia?

So it seems (has not signed yet though) - but that is probably for a different thread.

Cassio or Zullo as for me

Heart sign Miller as an injury replacement.

[Edit: whoops, its not an injury replacement - "Miller, 33, will be eligible for selection under Football Federation Australia’s National Team Replacement Player rule" ]

Mulvey to be sacked?

Surely not. They are 3 points off the top 6. Brisbane just need to bring in some better imports. The A-League is the sort of competition teams don't dominate. You have a good year and then you fall back into the pack and get ready to go again.

That is pretty much on the money. Remember that MV let go of Ernie because the team did not win the championship the following season? I am pleased the Roar do not have the same stupid attitude. If we do not win the toilet seat I won't be blaming Ernie - in this league there are always other factors at play. 

In contrast, when early on Melb Victory thrashed Adelaide in the grand Final (I think 5:1?) Kosmina resigned as Adelaide coach, such was the shock. That doesn't mean Adelaide were bad. It became a one-sided game when Adelaide (and Kosmina) became demoralised, when they were trailing 3:0 well before halftime.  The clash of Kossie with Muscat was hilarious.

Wonder what the odds on Mulvey being sacked first would have been. Seems ridiculous to sack him but everything appears that he has been.

Frans Thijssen is being touted as the Mulvey replacement

Seems I was wrong and Ryan's Rovers was right:

http://www.fourfourtwo.com/au/news/official-mulvey...

As for Frans Thijssens, just a "rumour" at this stage, nothing confirmed.

Anyway, wishing all the best to Mulvey. Any thoughts whether their championship last year was due to the good work laid down by Angie previously, or to his own talents?

This is a good blog post (in two parts) that was written earlier in the season:

http://goodluckpunters.wordpress.com/2014/11/08/a-...

Basically stipulates Mulvey inherited a talented but unmotivated squad and managed to motivate them but that he won the championship by such a massive margin mainly because the top clubs were in disarray with lots of coach rotation, etc.