Nix Transfer Speculation 2019-20

I don't say this lightly but considering WUs team and our inabillity to not score, we have SYD, PER, MV and MC coming up whom are all a tougher proposition. We could conceivably be 5 rounds in, 0 points and 0 goals. Waiting until January basically says 'We are developing youth this season and stuff the results'

You do not make playoffs without a striker, even more so when you sign on in January and the season is bolted.

Talay and Dome can make all the noise the like about the right player but as its stands, playoffs are out of our reach. A striker would have possibly made that an option. When the fans stop turning up because of the results, they can't whinge at anyone.

potentially our worst start to a season ever

Honestly, now that METRICS are no longer (?) hanging over our head, I don't blame Dome/Talay if they're going to write off this season as rebuilding. Sucks for everyone who's got season tickets, but as long as there is a 2020/21 season to look forward to, I'm going to lower my expectations right through the floor and try to be chill.

Look forward to him getting some playing time for AWs in Nov.

Has good feet (futsal background) and of course he's tall.

However seems more a winger than a striker. A Kiwi Sheridan.

6 goals this USL season to date from 24 games (19 starts). 3 of those goals came in one game against weakest team in Western Conference (Hartford). USL a step down from A League.

Doubt he's what the Nix need. But always happy to see more Kiwis at the club, and if he was cheap.....

They cant win had they they signed someone who turned out to be a dud  they would be getting it as well.Still waiting for someone to post just how they are meant to force a striker who is acceptable to sign for us.

Agreed, I've got no illusions about this season at all and given the makeup of the squad fully expect us to be down in spoon territory. Put it down as another in a long line of seasons of transition.

Now personally I'm fine with that but part of me is till suffering from a kind of FFA-induced PTSD, which means with every poor result and poor crowd I'm cringing in expectation of yet another call for our execution. I'll be interested to see how the club deals with the short term/long term goals equation under this new A League setup, and whether they hold their nerve if/when the crowds start deserting in droves. 

Assuming our long term future is secure I think laying the groundwork now (in terms of a new coaching vision, youth/Kiwi development, etc) is massively important, even at the cost of short term failure. Don't know if other fans are going to have the patience for it though.

Yeah, I've been kind of amazed at the common meme around here that if we don't get/keep the person that we want it's incompetence on behalf of the Nix. In some cases there wouldn't be enough money in the world to get someone to play here even if Domey were printing it himself.

Too early to wallow in doom and gloom I reckon. We were within touching distance of a draw. Cmon.

Any 'rebuilding' excuse is a total cop out. Western United are a brand new club and aiming for the playoffs, so should we. It may be that we stuffed up and haven't signed the right players, but let's be honest about that and not hide behind 'rebuilding'.

Who's this Semmy guy? Can someone please tell me more?

Adelaide came 4th last year without a striker.

You are probably looking at an orange verus apple scenario

How much have WU spent on player wages as opposed to the Nix?

Rudan maybe a Judas, so who knows for sure, but if he made a shot at Welnix for not spending enough, and then moved to WU - would seem his new team has a bigger wages budget. Maybe much bigger.

Who are the backers/owners of WU? Are they more passionate about football than Welnix? So therefore willing to open the wallet more, on a likely loss making 'investment'.

Seems WU have a mixed private/public funding model, with help from Victorian State Govt?

https://www.theage.com.au/sport/soccer/how-the-west-was-done-the-men-who-made-western-united-happen-20191010-p52zf3.html

Are WU more concerned with the short term, and trying to make playoffs in their first season, so building a fan base more quickly?

Without knowing answers to all the above, can't compare Nix to the Bitumens.

WU also has a higher cap than the other teams iirc

So I think we can safely assume we didn't get it done. Hard not to feel pretty deflated

WU have a slightly higher cap ($3.6m v $3.2m) but it is offset by the fact that they can't claim homegrown players (unlimited wages outside the cap for up to four players aged 23 or younger that have come through the club's youth system) or loyalty players (a portion of wages outside the cap for any number of players who have been at the club for four or more consecutive seasons).

The cap is in name only. 

The A League is now consistently dominated by the bigger spending clubs, of which who knows WU may join.

Which I think is our current strategy...find a guy who is currently contracted (possibly just til the end of the season) but not playing/out of favour with the manager. See if he can have his contract rescinded and then sign him as a free agent.

Looks like Colliers contract expires end of next month. If he was wanting to go elsewhere at seasons end you would think his club would be happy to release him early and save a months worth of wages.

Not sure he is our answer as a striker, but just thought I'd put his name out there. Ticks a few boxes. Tall target man. Has been scoring goals this season and last (albeit USL level) + he's a NZer.

As far as NZers go, I'd put him above Bevan on my target list

On loan from MSL team Chicago Fire to Memphis in USL. So probably depends whether Fire still see him as a MLS prospect.

Also whether he is close to getting a Green Card (or has even applied for one). He's been in the US a number of years now.

A conspiracy theorist may think that we didn't have the guts or nous to sign a decent striker but postpone that important decision to January.

So since the nIx won't score any goals and will lose anyway, let's give them the tough games initially

Then when they finally get organised and sign a striker they may win some 

bollocks we have plenty of goals in us  give them a break ffs

COYN

Not panicking and settling for a striker to me is the more gutsy move,maybe wrong but gutsy.

Rufer surprised me by getting into a scoring position (and he was probably just as surprised)

Striking distance by January, unbeaten run until the end of season with new top drawer striker 

Anyone win Powerball to sign Wilfried Bony for the Nix?

100% this

Watch this space......tick tock........announcement imminent.

Now Rollo saying there will be a major announcement this afternoon. Fingers crossed!

Striker signing incoming!

The Wellington Phoenix have called a media conference for 3pm today for a "major announcement in relation to the club."

— Jason Pine (@pineyzb) October 16, 2019

Sits back and waits for armchair coaches to moan and groan because they deem signed player isnt good enough.

Is this is not a striker their timing is very bad...

The wording doesn't sound like a player signing to me, but fingers crossed.