Phoenix Transfer Speculation 2013/14

getting colder 

Tommy Oar would be great! I'm hoping this is true. What a huge coup that would be.

So if this is a midfielder, he would be a replacement for Fenton's shift??

Looking at Cunningham's twitter feed suggests the deal is pretty much done..

https://twitter.com/kenny0788

Edit - If you translate the tweets, they are along the lines of "New opportunities abroad" - and someone tweeted to him (in Spanish) when he posted a photo of an empty stadium "Is this why you have changed to the Phoenix?"

Victory ditching foschini and markelis. Lets get em!

Rather have Foschini as RB rather than Fenton...

Apparantly Markelis has a really bad attitude

Foschini better option than converting fenton

Merrick signed and played Foschini while at victory, they know each other. Merrick is probably keen.

RR mightve picked kosta to victory based on stoppage time podcast

Don't we want to move forward? 

How would signing players not good enough for another A-League side be a step forward?

By all means if they are proven and out of contract but youngsters they would not offer full deals to and don't forget the Victory defence was a disaster at times last season.

I'd rather play Bertos there.

Kind of agree on the Foscini pickup. At the moment we have as wide defenders Rowe on trial...some kid from Queensland State league on trial and converting Fenton. Looks like this guy Cunningham may take one import slot and a DM the other. That means the rest of the squad have to be kiwis and Aussies.

Two and a half months out from the start of the season we need to start bedding players into the squad and getting them converted to Ernies style of football. Remember we are needing a squad not picking a first eleven. If this Forcini guy has played RB at A-League and is seen as a useful prospect then he would be OK to fill out the squad IMO. Seems like Ernie already knows him.....in Ernie we trust!!!!!

As someone has pointed our we are the last resort for players. We have to pick up other A-League discards....fact of life.  

It's Moneyball dudes. An island of misfit toys. A heart-warming tale about a team of loveable rejects assembled by an aging coach who just wants one last shot at the big time. 

Completely agreed. I watched all home Victory games and Foschini was often the worst player on the pitch and a complete liability. We need to be aiming higher than this, despite the realities of trying to get players to Wellington. 

Kenny Cunningham signed for two years from Saturday with NZ Wellington Phoenix

Good news. Nice to have a signing. Still want him to change his name. Steven O'Dor is currently sitting across from me on the train - should I sign him up?

From wikipaedia...

Kenny Martin Cunningham Brown (born 7 June 1985) is a Costa Ricaninternational footballer who plays in Bolivia for The Strongest, as a striker.[1][2] He is currently being seduced by the Wellington Phoenix in the A-league, but Kenny's well documented fear of earthquakes, hurricane force wind, torrential rain, and chicken fighting could scupper the deal.

Chicken fighting?

Twitter sauce is the only thing we've got so far. 

Probably the kind of signing the club would want to reveal with the player in town

I can confirm we have signed a player with a first and last name.

More to follow.

Here's a couple of vids of his recent performances where he picked up an assist in each game - if you count the own goal as his assist..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lmZz3MD9zU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrY_Kvc8LIc

He looks like he's played all over the park for them but definitely gets forward a lot

Who is doing the seducing?

Russell

Costa Rica is currently in second position in the CONCACAF world cup qualifiers only behind the US, and ahead of Mexico, Honduras, Panama and Jamica (in order). I havn't seen too much of Costa Rica, nor know many of their players, but this fact alone suggests that they are probably better than the All Whites. The fact that Kenny is playing regularly for the Costa Rican team, at least in recent fixtures, is a good sign that he could be a quality player. Look forward to seeing how this one pans out. 

He's only made 2 subs appeareances in the hex.

Scored this goal

So are the clues referring to a 2nd signing? Is it Solomons, the youth guy?

Also, 2B, if the cunningham thing hadn't jumped the gun, would this have been your clue?