2015/16 Transfer Speculation

Well you can when you have limited squad sizes and limited funds. That's why utility players are good for the squad, having a player of speed who can come on and turn a game is a different thing though.

Like Hoggy? Tried, failed, came back with tail between, end of career.

We'll he's in the same position as Clapham, sans local TV career, i.e. he plays in the top flight of NZ football.

If Clapham was even halfway serious he would have been playing in Wellington so that he could be in the mix with the Phoenix, Auckland for the club world cup, or overseas. I can only conclude that he doesn't/didn't want it.

Of course I don't know him. And there are doubtless people on here who know him well, so they can feel free to correct me.

Um, if by "he" you mean Ian Hogg, I don't think he's played top flight football for months. From what I gather his failed attempt at the big time has backfired on him bigtime. Not saying same would happen with Clapham, but maybe with age he's grown wary of chucking away what he's got.

Thought Hogg was playing for TeeDubs?

Re: suggestion that Clapham not going to TW = lacking ambition

Maybe he actually enjoys representing his local team in the ASBP? I know that seems ridiculously outlandish... but maybe players do exist who would rather stick with their home club than moving to another in the same competition?

Ignore me, I'm talking crazy

Exactly - he would prefer to play in Christchurch, be with his family, etc. than move to pursue a pro career. He did his stint in the US university system and then a couple of months in Australia, and might have thought - you know what? This is good enough.

Nothing wrong with that, and that would explain why he never got the pro gig, he might not have wanted it, or the sacrifice meant it wasn't worth it.

No you are not Paul. The Phoenix have signed a number of ASB Prem players or had them involved and  not many of them got there by playing in Wellington rather than for any other ASB Prem side.

See from the games I watched of him on T.V I tend to disagree with this statement. Although I did not see all of his games. I thought someone like Andre de Jong stood out more

Year ago. Think he now works full-time for Auckland Transport.

PS btw Aaron Clapham is now 29 yrs old.

Hogg is a funny one. I have my suspicions on what happened there but its all speculation without facts.

You are new to these forums?

Player announcement to be made tonight #Nixplayerannouncement

— Wellington Phoenix (@WgtnPhoenixFC) March 8, 2016

Kosta? Doyle? Vinnie?

Clapham. Obviously

wish theyd say player contract announcement.

Clapham and De Vries 

Whether rightly or wrongly, that boat has sailed, unless we badly need injury replacements.

Yay http://www.wellingtonphoenix.com/article/%20kosta-coming-home/1afoc59bf19e1mgrqqvb2ijsh

Fudge yes. Welcome home Kosta!

One barba....

And I only defended him apparently because we are mates....

We've got the shortest attack in the league, We've got the shortest attack in the league,

(To the tune of "We've got the whole world in our hands")

and even when our tall defenders head forward for corners they don't usually head the ball :)

Hell Yea!!!!!

The best Phoenix news for many, many months. Welcome back home Kosta!

I'd say the extension was pretty good news.

Very good news. Great to see him come home. Welcome back Costa with a C.

With all the excitement of Costa/Kosta signing, the departure of Manny Muscat feels less painful.

I thought of the following chant for our first game against Melbourne City next season:

"Manny Manny Manny,

Must be funny

In the rich mens' world"

The the tune of the ABBA classic hit.

Well, yeah, but there's no strings with Kosta

But the lenth of time we have signed Kosta for is still shorter than when we will see strings for the licence.

Good point. I wonder how the re-signing of the players at the end of our first 3 years of the 3+2+2=10 deal will be affected.

I was only commenting on the validity of the licence extension being good news in the last few months, Kosta coming back being one of two great pieces of news.

is pie mans brother on the way here, before the game v adelaide he had a good chinwag with russell the kit man as the players came out to warm up and then got a double pat on the back as he walked off, then  he was having a good look around the stadium as he went down the tunnel at half time then ernie in the press commented what a good player he was. pure speculation by me

As kind of covered in the Contracted players thread, we need to form a front line of KGB. We have Krishna and Barbarouses. So come on down Danny Graham...

Greenacre may need to sharpen up to fit into the KGB lineup.

Blue_Fever for 2016/17 is it in aisle ??