Phoenix Transfer Speculation 2012/13

 

Around $350,000 for cost neutral participation is expensive....but not that expensive considering what you get out of it. The club gets a decent amount of proper games for their youth and can have their reserve players getting regular game time. IMO NZF should come up with a chunk of the $$$......they could essentially put the bulk of the NZ under 21 team into this squad...which would be fabulous for youth football in NZ. Plus they could try and hit up SPARC or others for a grants/sponsorship.

 

Playing in the NZpremiership would be second choice....but the season is too short. Guys like Lindsay should be playing 20 to 30 games a year. Other wise they will never develop.

 

The Nix are sitting on a ticking time bomb.....the age of its squad. I would imagine Ricki will not make whole sale changes to the current side next season(they have got him to 3rd this year) So when he finishes his term next season some poor bugger is going to have to come in and take over the coaching job and renew probably about 60%+ of the squad. It is absolutely critical that the club has a youth squad playing plenty of games next season.....its probably a year or two too late but better late than never.

 

Moss....yes please. Moss > Paston(here we go again)

 

Could be wrong though

 

 

 

Cameron Linday will be re-signed. Greenacre will stay whether that's in a coaching or playing capacity. I hope Mark Paston is kept as second keeper, however I wouldn't mind us picking up Scott Basalaj or Stefan Marinovic. Brent Griffiths and Niko Tsattalios will be released for Kiwi Yoof. Tony Warner will go unless he wants to be a goalkeeper coach.. Vince Lia will stay because Ricki loves him and Daniel, Nick Ward and Dani Sanchez will be released.. Alex Smith to STAY

 

Imagine he would be in the Olywhites squad, with qualifiers over the next 2 weekends

 

E.g. Musa... would have been better off never playing for the nix imho.

Am i willing to give up the opportunity to live abroad, pick up a free education and a possible potential route to professional football to sign and train for a professional team, that perhaps I will never get a run on for and ultimately destroy the above opportunities (if not resigned).

 

What advice do you think Musa / Spoonly and Draper would give?

 

 

Lovemore came on against Sydney? as a sub. He looked OK....his pace certainly got him into good attacking positions. He didn't look out of place. Nearly scored. I always wondered how he would have gone after a season learning with pros like Greenie and Ifill.

 

My thoughts too.... he has that endearing Brazialian trait of falling down when hit with a feather, mid you Daniel started that way and he seems to have had that knocked out of him. He scores a few goals 16 in two years at Sydney and 3 assists , so while better than what we have at present, nothing startling. He is 29 soon so has probably had his best years, so on balance, I think we should be aiming for something a little better.