The latest on this (from here)
One saving grace for the Phoenix as they headed into the new season was that they didn’t have to find a new coach for the first time in four years, but Ufuk Talay is now less than six months away from being a free agent and there has been little said about the prospect of an extension.
Dome didn’t want to add much, saying he was “reluctant to make any comment on that, because that's really with Rob”.
“All I can tell you is that discussions have been held and there are things that are being discussed between the chairman and the head coach.”
Shortly afterwards a request for an update was put to Talay himself, but all he would offer was further confirmation that there have been discussions.
There is nothing unusual about keeping contract talks private, but the Phoenix obviously want Talay to stay and have given him quite a bit of influence. He’s promoted the coach-slash-analyst he hired last year – Giancarlo Italiano – to sit beside him on the sideline ahead of Chris Greenacre (though anyone who saw the Phoenix train last year will tell you Chief, as he is known, has always played an integral role) and many of the players he recruited during the off-season were young Australians he had ties to from former jobs.
When the red carpet is laid out like that on one hand, but no deal is forthcoming on the other, fans will rightly start to worry another organisational reshuffle might be on the cards come the end of the season.