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Alex 'The second best' Rufer

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1 day ago
imanixsupporter wrote:
There has been an awful lot of smoke about him going to Newcastle for a long time, hard to imagine there is no underlying fire. But I'll be much happier if he is indeed off to Europe instead
You’d hope it’s the same smoke that saw Cammy at Hearts! Eventually…though that caused the issues with Callan iirc…


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about 9 hours ago
MetalLegNZ wrote:
Someone posted elsewhere that they heard through a good sauce he was off to Norway.

I can't see him going to Newcastle personally.
the only reason he goes to the jets is to play in Asia, would be a tempting opportunity but purely for the travel and experience, it's unlikely to help is AW's chances, just too many midfielders ahead of him.

Queenslander 3x a year.

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about 8 hours ago
theprof wrote:
 MetalLegNZ wrote:
Someone posted elsewhere that they heard through a good sauce he was off to Norway.

I can't see him going to Newcastle personally.
the only reason he goes to the jets is to play in Asia, would be a tempting opportunity but purely for the travel and experience, it's unlikely to help is AW's chances, just too many midfielders ahead of him.
Cant agree its the only reason if they are offering much better money and maybe he just wants to live somewhere else for a while. Also if its true the Phoenix havnt spoken to him then he would want to be getting his future sorted out as early as possible i would think.

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about 8 hours ago · edited about 8 hours ago · History
I had excluded money as a motivator, due to his comments in earlier interviews suggesting he wanted to play overseas, which I took to mean not in the Aleague, but given ACL as a temptation then Jets could count as overseas but close enough to family.

I would hope that the club would be at least talking with their captain to test the waters and see if he wants to hang around - hopefully they are offering so reassurances around the manager too

Queenslander 3x a year.

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about 8 hours ago
The rumours of Rufer to the Jets started a long time before Jets were confirmed or even likely to be in the ACL elite. Not sure if an experience in the second tier Asian club comp was really a big factor in him going there, it would be more likely that at the time he had had enough of the Nix and the leadership leaving an ineffective coach in charge for far too long. 
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about 6 hours ago · edited about 6 hours ago · History
imanixsupporter wrote:
The rumours of Rufer to the Jets started a long time before Jets were confirmed or even likely to be in the ACL elite. Not sure if an experience in the second tier Asian club comp was really a big factor in him going there, it would be more likely that at the time he had had enough of the Nix and the leadership leaving an ineffective coach in charge for far too long. 
Edit: misread your comment, disregard
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about 5 hours ago
I also think that the lack of open discussion about Rufer's future by journalists and broadcasters tells you that they probably already know he is gone. For comparison, Piney directly asked both Eze & Armiento about their futures as they have been two of our best off contract players, but hasn't done the same to Rufer.

The Sky panel has on a couple occassions gently broached the question about his future to him, but it seemed like they were fishing for goodbye statements from Alex more than anything else. 
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