Interesting to note Graham Arnold's comments about the strikers he has seen on his recent intelligence gathering trip to Indonesia:
"Arnold singled out Indonesia's attacking trio of Bambang Pamungkas, Budi Sudarsono and Firman Utina as the main threat, adding all three were "easily" good enough to play in the A-League. "The front three are all good players, and Utina particularly impressed me," he said. "He's very quick, he's got great skills, and he's got a telepathic understanding with Sudarsono."It looks as though we're going to start losing some of our A-League players to first-tier Asian countries, which is disappointing. So to me, it's obvious we should start to bring in some players from these second-tier Asian countries to fill the gaps. This guy [Utina] is easily good enough to play here � and there's plenty more like him."
And Melbourne found one of their squad from a Thai club (Ney Fabiano was it?).
Tony P...any scouting trips to SE Asia coming up?