Nix Transfer Speculation 2019-20

I'm never going to get sick of headlines that have a team like Bayern Munich linked with a young kiwi star and the Phoenix. So fudgeing awesome.

You never now. He must just win the Champions League himself, get himself a 99 rated TOTY card in FIFA 26 and we'll be able to say "we may have just got the A-league wooden spoon for the third time in a row but we made Sarpreet Singh!"

Not saying it's gonna happen - but if Juve/Roma/Inter/Napoli came with an offer?

Though of course playing for a big club's 2nd team in Italy, probably not as appealing as Germany. Lower tier Italian football seeming a bit shambolic.  

If we are in for Pijnaker, it seems he's still lining up for Torslanda over in Sweden.

The starting XI against Gauthiod. Featuring no less than 4 Kiwi's - Keat, Wooldridge, Parker-Price and of course Pijnaker.

Must just be looking to keep his fitness levels up before making the trip back to NZ.

Re Cacace, as far as I know only Juventus have a 2nd team in the third tier which is pretty much and U23 development side. None of the other teams mentioned before has one. I think he could do better and slot nicely into a serie B team.
Good call on his part not to go anywhere for another season I think. He is young and needs to develop further. He can use next season to do that and work on the mental side as well. So many youngsters take the leap too early and fail because they aren't mentally ready.

No news on the imports as of yet so may as well throw in some more conjecture. Looked to see who played for Newcastle with Stevie on the football united tour to see if any others from that team are off contract (huge long shot I know). Mehdi Abeid, Yoan Gouffran, Fabricio Coloccini and Emmanuel Riviere are all off contract. Coloccini is Dura's age now so probably wouldn't want him, but the other three would be decent. Gouffran is 33 and has just left Goztepe in the Turkish league, Riviere (29, striker) and Abeid (26, midfielder) both played in France last season, for Metz (Ligue 2) and Dijon (Ligue 1). All through weren't great at Newcastle (especially Riviere) but would be pretty decent in the A-League. 

Of course the likelihood that we're interested in any of these blokes is slim, but we've heard no rumours yet, so fudge it.

Who else here thinks we should sign Aaron Clapham?

Gouffran is not a terrible shout considering he is coming from the Turkish league and Ufuk has connections there.

Dimitar Berbatov is a free agent. Sure he’s 38 but I’d pay just to see him pluck long balls out of the air on a dime. 

Yoan Gouffran may be a very good shout. Looks like he has signed for a new club but not been announced yet. 

At 38 years old, I'm confident he'd still absolutely wreck A-League defences. Great player. 

He'd tear up this league

Bit off topic, but

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Regarding record transfer fees, what did we get for McKain? I remember talk of 7 figures but not sure if that was what he was going to get or the transfer fee.

Anyone seen a TARDIS around here?

Yeah I heard it was seven figures but the stuff article said Sarpreet was 750k-1 million and was the biggest fee the Phoenix have ever got. Maybe they're including addons in that

or just maybe the quality of reporters in NZ means that they have forgotten about the McKain transfer?

I'm not sure if McKain's transfer fee was publically announced?

His Wikipedia cites tribalfootball.com and says $1.5 million, not sure how legit of a source this is but it's something

Schrijvers was outstanding in the World Club cup game in UAE in Dec. Someone said he was only 21. Played with a lot of confidence for such a big game. The Handa games I have seen,  he is always so consistently good at the back. Plays off both feet. Good speed too!  Worth giving a go?? 

JHS - Have seen some great games from him and some not so great games. Thinks hes around 21 as well. But could be handy.

Stevens - OK at times. Can be greedy and cost possession.

Schrijvers will turn 23 later this year. JHS is 21. I'd very happily have Schrijvers as another CB option, and I'd also like to see JHS at least be given an opportunity to trial, but as a wide player and not a forward like last year. Though I think that Talay's intention of playing a back 4 probably makes it a bit more difficult for JHS to break in this season.

Agree with Boxy. Would take Taylor S and Jack HS as squaddies who could possibly do a Libby and turn into starters...
Not sure about Stevens.. He holds his own in the Handy but he's had opportunities both with the Nix and in Europe and has failed to leave a mark. He's soon approaching Watto-land so if he doesn't make it soon he might never turn pro

https://www.a-league.com.au/news/bayern-munich-con...

Singh's off to Bayern then. 3 years as well! pretty good deal for NZ football that.

Domey saying its more than we got for Burns or McKain. Does that mean 7 figures then?

I seem to recall a presser when Burns went to Japan and Merrick was asked if the fee was $1,000,000 or thereabouts by a reporter, he said something along the lines of 'If we'd got an offer of a million for Burns, you can have him and a few of the academy boys too!' 

Well, either way, both Burns' and McKain's fee's have been usurped now, and by a young Kiwi no less, great going!

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulises_D%C3%A1vila

doesn’t look very good for a striker.  

We're putting together a brand new team aren't we?  From last year's best XI it's likely only Taylor, Libby and Rufer will be back next year.  Maybe Louis Fenton but I'm not sure he's a right back in a 4.  

Singh's transfer fee in USD?

Quite a bit of player traffic between India and the A-league this off-season. Also, former Chelsea 'player'.

He's a midfield player, according to everything I've read

He's an attacking midfielder, a Singh type replacement? Looks as though this guy is even shorter too...

At a stretch, a fill in winger too & a bit of a journeyman, been around some good clubs, but don't feel he's really cracked it anywhere so far. Will reserve judgement until have seen him get a few games under his belt.

https://www.cancha.com/aplicacioneslibre/articulo/...

He had been trialing with Chivas the last 4 weeks but they passed on him. Not sure what to make of that quote, he was good but not good enough to be a first teamer so was allowed to look elsewhere?

He was supposed to be a future star for Mexico when he was young but never fulfilled his potential (shades of bruno fornaroli in that sense). Looks great on the ball, a good age too. Theres a reason he was on the books at chelsea for four years, even if he never got a game. Cautiously excited to see if he can deliver the goods. Dont forget he was on trial with CD Guadalajara who play in the mexican top flight, which is miles better than the a league. I know it didnt work out but thats supposedly because he didnt want to be just a squad player