Phoenix Transfer - speculation (Part 1)

Very well said. If we can sign Porter and a proper right back then there is only one situation in which i can think of a marquee signing being worth while. If Ross A. doesn't renew his contract due to injuries we could sign a marquee defensive midfielder, maybe even Ivan V. (and pay him outside the salary cap). This would then free up the space to release Old from his contract and bring in Ben Sigmund in his place.
KTBW2008-03-21 13:52:32

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Wat about dwight yorke as a marquee and a striker this year??

and we could sign porter to play as backup

Yorke is too slow for that now, hence him playing defensive mid

exactly, hes still got the skills, doesnt have the legs.. thus he rocks as a distributor especially at a-league level, but not something we need..

promise promise promise? by next season you mean this year?

what if aloisi is off then we could use yorke in defensive mid.

if aloisi leaves i dont belive we need another defensive mid we've got jonson lia brown and ferrante for gods sake

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add mckain to that

with 442 rumours about Jeff Campbell to boot, but surely Johnson would be the prefered option there?

More of your speculation?? or do you know something????

well he is 33 32 or something and hes prob wont get much game time with ferrante lia and brown soo whats he gonna do maybe gio play in austrailia or take up coaching aswell as aloisi and covs

But nightz a source maybe?

he'd certainly be  a classy signing FH, but as has been said before he'll be asking way too much

Dude, do you really think that we could've done any more than we did to get him? We simply don't have the cash.

I think the squad is looking pretty good now, we could do worse ( and have) than Smeltz and Costa up front and Lia playing r.b. We probably will get a couple more olayers, just makes us even better. Nix for the playoffs this season

yes so that could mean more signings...

any one know any more speculation?

Troy Hearfield.. any thoughts on him? still havnt heard of any possible right backs

Hearfield is average but he is still young. Much like Lia I think he can improve loads.

Porter and Muly .. YES PLEASE.

Do we really need Mulligan with Gao here? Mulligan seems like a free kick specialist to me - pretty suspect in defence. I'd rather have Dodd at RB.

wow this is good news. I'd rather have this Hearfield kid than the creaking Johnson. Seems like this is really target at Steven Old in particular and the mention of Sigmund is promising, as is the ongoing talk about Porter. Pignata brining him up again surely raises the odds above the 50% mark, perhaps a 70% chance of him coming now?

I'd keep Christie because of his utility value (he's also not too old) and the fact that he's a kiwi. Not too fussed about Draper, but I could also see Coveny and/or Ross going as well. Might leave us a tad short on leadership material but a young, hungry squad is more appealing to me for some reason.

we should get rid of ross and johson so we have a spot left to sign someone else during the season and sign hearfield porter and sigmund

I hope Johno or Ross can last another year. We need an old head imo and Johnson performed well last year when given the chance.

I'd keep Johnson for another year, great player to bring on when you need the ship steadying. Does the basics right and leads by example. 

i think unfortunatly its time for ross to go but id keep johno for another year.

I'm just diving in here to say I'm not convinced about Hearfield. 

Don't see what he adds that we don't already have.

Maybe this part of what Hearfield brings is what Ricki and co are interested in, although I dont know who these goals were against. Plus he has played with Durante, would know his game

2006                   Australia U-20        14 games (6 goals)
2007-present      Australia U-23           2 games (1 goal)

hepatitis2008-03-24 14:10:10

Unless ricki's wanting to train Hearfield as a right back (which could happen?) then there is no point in getting another midfielder for this season. Hearfield has added spark to newcastle play whenever he came on and could be potentially very good but i dont think he is what the nix require considering the current squad.