Phoenix Transfer - speculation (Part 2)

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/3728308/Phoenix-in-with-a-sniff-at-signing-Fallon Link fix, very exciting.

Thanks i FK it up every time.

Wonder if the team already fly business class to Oz? Plus we won't be able do Tom Rewi's chant without talking to Rory's agent.

Not according to Ricki's twitter feed.

Can't see Terry shelling out that money.

...Sunday news. How much can we take as truth?

Sounds dubious, I'd say it's a stretch at best. Even the article itself is somewhat contradictory

my guess is that rory will leave after WC for the best money Plymouth can get for him

our sniff will be re-sniffable when that contract expires or if the moves on from his post-Plymouth club within 1-3 years, we will need to wait until the contract after that

I'd be delighted to be proved wrong, but this seems like Tony P doing good media

Not a proverbial sausage.

W.T.F.

Desiree?

Don't you remember Desiree?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCpFPasdjsg

Simon Plumb: the biggest bullsh1t artist in NZ football.

Whats his twitter feed?

Something about Fallon makes me think that he'd never play football here. Just his arrogance.

Agree, but not only the arrogance, his ability as well causes a concern, look up his currnt Clubs fans opinions.

what do you mean "how much can we take this as truth"?

Tony.P saying he's trying is a lie ?

If it was such a financial stretch to get him I'd rather we went for Killen instead.

Would he fit into the current team culture?
Probably not. His ego sounds equal to the rest of the team put together.

Premier league quality
Royal2010-05-24 04:39:46

Don't want him currently, he thinks he is too good for the A-League. 

I think he'd be comfortable in our league.  Premier League, seriously?

He'd be good for a few more t-shirts though.

I think he seems a good lad. When interviewed he's bubbly, enthusiastic and has a bit of a laugh.

Just bc he has ambition doesn't make him arrogant necessarily. I doubt he said "I am so f'n wonderful and i should be playing in the premiership, cant believe managers havent seen it yet."

Have no preference either way.Does seem that some of you may have judged him on the basis of a couple of off field things since the last qualifier,which may or may not be attributed to him.

Gennaro Gattuso's contract expires 30 June, 2012.  The man is a savage, we need to get him.  Him or (as I've suggested about ten times) bring ol' Stig Tofting out of retirement.  For the lols.

Since when has arrogance been a bad thing fora footballer.

Saw him being interviewed with all his friends in the All Whites, and he seemed a pretty decent bloke TBH.  He is best mates with Lochy, Leo, Christie and Mulligan

hes a bit wierd IMO

He's under contract for another year - PA will be trying to get as much as they can for him and we won't pay a transfer fee - not going to happen. But just to make absolutely sure he's not going to be given a free transfer we go public with our interest.

Whether Rory likes it or not, I think he is now in a League where he is best suited. 

I've probably seen him play more then anyone else here on the forum (have seen him live numerous times for Argyle, one of my teams) and what I've always thought is that he is a Heskey, another player that people like to take pot shots at. 

Rory splits us Argyle fans down the middle as he appears lazy at times even though he sets up numerous goals for the team, a classic Target Man.  He's not the fastest and infact appart from Bradley Wright-Phillips (Shauns brother) argyle lacked pace up front and a settled back line which is why we got religated.

Simon Elliot!

Yeah yeah !!!

He'll do good for us here at the Phoenix. Just a season or two though, no further. He's 35 already

Let the Simon Elliot calls come in

When I said Fallon was arrogant didn't mean it as a bad thing for a striker, but more directed that he's still a few years away from playing for the Phoenix and he doesn't seem like the kind of guy who would be like yeah ill come give something back to NZ football (not that he needs to) but just seems unrealistic.

I think he'll fit in perfectly. We have Big Mac and Greenie as our strikers now and i think Elliot can provide good early long balls for them. He'll sit in front of Lia, Moosecat and stay behind our strikers in midfield, especially when Brown wants to go up front in support. Plus Elliot's a bit more experienced than any of our current midfielders (not necessarily better). I personally like his passing skills and vision for early balls.

regarding shooting the ball - We've seen worse at the Phoenix already. Ferrante missing from 6 yards  and yet he played for us. but then again times have changed and so has the style Phoenix plays in. On the other hand, when we've got Macllister, Greenie, Ifill and Brown to do the shooting job, i think we will be okay with Simon not showing ball striking prowess. BUT if we can get a GOOD attacking midfielder with the likes of Scholes, Gerrard, Lampard or Iniesta the I wont give Elliott a second thought.

Elliot would compliment the Nix very well. Even at 35 he still has it. He was the best midfielder on the park in the Oz game. Even the Oz commentators said so. Realistically this is probably his last year as a pro footballer. No one is going to pick him up in the USA. He should finish his career at home with the Nix.

THAT would be quite a sight!!

If Nelsen is still aorund when Killen and Fallon look to come back he will be a very old man.

There weren't many quotes in the article i read about Fallon. Im guessing the question posed was "would you be interested in Fallon if he were available" to which TonyP answered "of course we would be,but we wouldnt want to pay a transfer fee" then they based the article around that,and took the most newsworthy and out of context interpretation,and filled in the gaps with speculation.