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

Think the two they signed today used up the import spots.

No A-League fro Clapham or Mulligan then?

I remember hearing something about Clapham having a backup trial with the Furries IIRC

I'd rather play in Melbourne state league than have to live in Townsville for 9 months.

I'd rather get paid to play than play for Dandenong

Smeltz to somewhere in China, and back again  
hepatitis2010-07-17 21:34:15

http://au.fourfourtwo.com/News/171936,roar-sign-costa-rican-hitman.aspx

Roar loan in a Costa Rican striker, young & decent record, might be a good signing.

Not A-League but I thought this was funny

Young Australian footballers... so, so dumb.

Still, Jessie Fink likes it:

LawrieMcKinna
Rumour shane smeltz coming home from china
about 2 hours ago via OpenBeak

what the hell?

I'm guessing one of two things:

1) He failed his medical exam and thirty pieces of silver wasn't enough to bribe the team doctor, or
2) Mrs Smeltz showed up and decided she hated the place

That, or 3) Rumour is wrong

I put my money on number 2.

Can't have fetched much.

He didn't want the Missus and the kids over there.

and so Smeltzy managed to piss more people off!
I wonder how long he'll stay with Gold Coast now? 1 week? 2 weeks?

Got it in 1

Nothing wrong with that. If the family is not going to be happy, then you might as well flag it.

Quite right. Smeltz's wife seems to cop a lot of abuse round here based on nothing more than hearsay and speculation, which I suppose is sour grapes over Smeltz ditching the Nix to go to Gold Coast.

He should have done his homework before he signed the contract - reserached Shandong (club and city), talked to people who have lived in China, clearly understood what accomodation and other facilites were going to be provided for his family etc.

He looks a little foolish but by the time the season has gone a few games it wont matter.

I like watching him play so it is a bonus

Galekovic set to go somewhere in Europe this window.

To me, this, combined with the whole Turkey debacle that dropped the Phoenix management in it when he fist signed with GC, indicates that his management/advisory team is quite poor.

Good of you to be sympathetic to them  but it wouldnt be the first set of fans upset, these things happen. I remember when the Kingz had a few "top"Aussies coming and half never showed up

I reckon Smeltz read and believed all the hype about offers after the World cup, esp after scoring his goal. Then he didnt get enough / decent ones in to pick and choose from, felt he should do something but didnt think realistically or hard enough about it, and got a culture shock when he arrived there.

What he was giving up in terms of lifestyle on the Coast and scooting around in Palmers Jet (altho I think that isnt happening this year) and being able to swim at the beaches and go for a latte, and have his kids in a school where they arent any different, it wasnt worth the extra dosh, he doesnt need it enough and also I wonder if after the training sessions he had, he saw that it wasnt actually a step up football wise.

Pull the plug and outta there

Pure speculation of course but it fits in the thread

There is a distinct possibility that he was promised certain things that weren't delivered upon as well.  Remember Plodder went to India not long ago.  He was promised things that weren't delivered so he pulled the plug pretty quickly.

What did happen with Plodder in India?  I heard he was going to check it out then nothing after that.

This would be completely different and understandable if it is the case, but there has been no suggestion of that anywhere, only that he couldn't see his family being happy there.

Plodder apparently turned up to training and found out that he was expected to take training - so not sure what the coaching staff were up too.

The Melbourne fans do not want Moss at their club.

There was some story about accommadaton.  Turning to to find he had 5 flatmate in his house or something similar.

Talk in Aus is van Stratten to be spineless for Central Coast to replace Vukovich (gone to Turkey) and Mossy to Gold Coast.

Oooh, even though I despise Cold Ghost, having the All Whites' #1 striker and #1 goalie prospect for 2014 together at the same club will be rad. Imagine what GCU/Nix will be like with Paston and Mossy lining up against each other!

Vanstrattan has parted company with GCU, set to join CCM - GCU media release
HeySeus2010-07-19 13:21:23

They're just waiting on the Vukovic transfer funds to come through, then Vanstratten will sign at Mariners.

The Gold Coast need to make signings. If they lose Smeltz and Van Strattan then their squad is much weaker than last year. So much for this high and mighty "Real Madrid of Australia." Moss to GCU would be good for him though. Unless he lets in 6 against us!

Just magine the posts from wellyphoenixfan if we get another 6-0 against GCU, but with Moss in goal for them.

Moss set to sign for GCU http://au.fourfourtwo.com/News/172249,moss-exits-for-gold-coast-united.aspx

I would take a 0-0 draw with many chances being saved by our 2 AWs keepers. Lets get 6-0 against another team, preferably Melbourne.


Oceanic62010-07-19 21:12:23

Sydney sign midfielder Hirofumi Moriyasu of Japan

Funny cause he was on the teams list of headshots before the signing was announced. So everyone already knew before that.