"The Top 100 All-Time Greatest A-League Players" Four Four Two Australia magazine August 2017
(The list includes foreign imports such as Del Piero and Yorke)
The magazine has a good bio of each player with a photo.
Phoenix players past and present featuring:
4. Shane Smeltz
6. Carlos Hernandez
9. Marco Rojas
16. Joel Griffiths
20. Danny Vukovic
30. Paul Ifill
39. Fred
44. Nathan Burns
48. Jade North
56. Andrew Durante
62. Michael McGlinchey
67. Gui Finkler
70. Kosta Barbarouses
So, thirteen Phoenix players - 13% of the Top 100
Michael Theo is ranked #11 and first played in the Aussie top flight for our own Football Kingz in 2001-2002
Moss and Brockie are ranked as two of the five "Top A-League Nomad Stars" as having the most clubs.
Ernie Merrick is ranked as one of the top five A-League coaches of all time.
The top three players in the list are Broich, Berisha, Archie Thompson (Smeltz is fourth)
There are three Phoenix players in the top ten. Three of the top ten are New Zealand born or NZ citizens (Archie, Smetlz, Rojas).
Ranking Paul Ifill at only 30th is plainly ridiculous. I'd have Paul as about ninth, ahead of Rojas, who they have as ninth.
The Aussie Four Four Two is worth reading (they also have an excellent website) with lots of A-League coverage, as well as UK and European coverage. The big feature stories such as the Top 100 Players are not on the website but it has up-to-date news. It works out at about $NZ 8 per issue including post ($A 89.95 for 12 issues) if you subscribe by Wednesday this week at https://www.mymagazines.com.au/
Cameron Knowles, the Kiwi assistant coach of Portland Timbers in Major League Soccer features in an impressively researched article in the Aussie Four Four Two magazine in June this year about Aussies and Kiwis coaching overseas. They even bothered to interview him. It also features another Kiwi coach, Oli Harder, in charge of Klepp IL in Norway's top women's league. He signed Football Fern Kirsty Yallop from a Swedish club recently. And Ryan Sandford from Wellington, now working with ex-NZ Football Technical Director Paul Smalley as goalkeeping coach for the Bangladesh FA.
Agree that it's crazy that Ifill is 30th, but not sure he should be ahead of Marco. Marco has been a superstar in this league, although unfortunately not with us.
It's also crazy that Kosta is 70th, he's won A-league titles with two different teams and played a pretty critical part for both team getting to those titles. And McGlinchey is 62nd!!! Ridiculous.
Also interesting that of the 13 players who made it in the top 100, only 2 (maybe Smeltzy at a push too) would actually be automatically associated with the Phoenix. The rest are all there through success with other clubs.