Phoenix Transfer - speculation

Anyone heard - is the Dutch trialist still coming ?

Think he's supposed to be here at the end of the month.

Does anyone know if the game between the Nix and the Victory in Queesnstown is being televised. I would love to have a look at this Dutch triallist. Will Astraukas still be here for this game? and if so could we see them starting up front together?

No but it could fulfill his prediction of Killen playing in League 1

I'm thinking for the striker options:
Plan A has to be both Astraukas and the Dutchy work out and we sign them both.
Plan B would be only one of them is up to it and gets signed and we have a fall back of signing say Krishna as a squad player
Plan C - I don't even want to go there cos' it's a dark and gloomy place

Your plan B, Krishna is trialling at the Fury and has looked alright therefrom the reports I've seen, might not be available for us

He's good but wasn't the right type of striker we wanted accordingly to our news and therefore we were OK with him having a trial with Fury. So he is not our plan B.

So the Fury could have he and McBreen... two of our failed triallists.

Tony did say that he acouple(3?) more players they could look at if it didnt work out with the trailists

Pfft. They are not scoring much goals and it sounds like that Killen was already assigned to be fifth striker behind the incumbents from the word go because they doesn't want to upset a couple of their forwards. A trait of a weak inexperience first time manager.

I still think that he got a raw deal and that the team is play crap and giving him crap service as well. That is more believable than suggesting that he wasn't good enough because we know he is good enough from his SPL record with Hibs.

Players on loans get usually raw deals, trust me it happens most of the time especially if they (the club) were struggling already. It's a sign of being desperate. Loan players are sometime used as a patsy. So we should take it with a grain of salt.AllWhitebelievr2009-06-09 11:19:53

+BrockieSurgeQld2009-06-09 12:08:24

Yeah, crossed my mind.... just thought failed triallist might have been harsh on him.

Didn't he trial lst year?... oh well... so the newbie Qld derby may be the Battle of the Not-Nix strikers!!!

for some.

Kaka.

Choochoo

Unless you have faith in the rest of the staff and he's hanging around until after you get back...

Quite easily!

Yep agree.Just said as much in Lith thread.we must be on same page in FM manual!

You may have video taped him at the game. Anyone seen them do so? Anyway they do have match reports on practice runs don't they? Get a couple of senior players to do a peer review. Depends on their club set up.

It really is a shame we didn't get Killen, he was awesome today versus italy! I'd imagine he'd have a few people knocking on his door after that!

Yep. Both last two practice games were filmed..thanks to Sony for the camera by the look of it!...saw the guy doing it at the broadcast box at top tier of stadium.No doubt Ricki will get the highlights clip /e-mail.

With perths squad looking even stronger with Sterjovski set to sign as marquee, I cant help but feel we are not aiming high enough in the players we are trialling or trying to sign...

Im looking forward to the season more than anything but am concerned with the quality we have. Greenacre and Diego have been good signings (I hope) but I'd feel much more at ease if we weren't banking on an unproven Lithuanian and an unseen dutchy as our ideal targets.

I guess we are all holding out for some news, i hope we get the guys we need to be a top 6 team and/or better...

I think were going fine recruitment wise, especially now since the nix players have shown that they have got the goods while playing in the NZ side. I thought the Leo's set pieces looked great, from what i've seen and thats something we really lacked from last season.

Not to worried about the class of marquee players being brought in tbh, I think Ricki and management have realized that we probably don't have the money to bring big stars over for the nix and it sounds like their trying to built a basis of reliable players and the squad in my eyes has never been stronger.

If we get one/two proven strikers I think that this seasons squad will be light years ahead of last seasons and could do very very well

I'm tending to agree with you Evan231 re the potential for this years squad.
Lots of very deliberate stuff going on to ensure the best options with players trialled, away pre- season games to test logistics planning and team  management, within the budget Phoenix has. The international experience for 8 of the Phoenix players should reflect in better results hopefully too. If Ricki can get the squad gelling well and the management team do the right thing tactically this year we'll have a good chance of top 6 success.

I think we will start well given the fitness levels coming off Confed Cup..and then have a mid season lull..so we need strong squad...get these strikers in the bag and a cover for attacking midfield.

We need a quality Striker and a ball playing Cm.

What is Diego ?  Chopped Liver ?

Which other sides ?  I'll name one existing side looking significantly netter than least year - Perth.  That's it, one side.  Chuck in Gold Coast and you have two sides that have 'improved' the league with signings... hardly the whole league.

and gold coast plus NQ arguably have weakened other sides, especially Sydney.  There has been very few transfers from outside the league, it's just players rotating between clubs

Haha I love your quoute HardNews.  - "What is Diego ?  Chopped Liver ?"

who does Elliot play for now? any chance of getting him as a marquee? i think he'd he awesome in the a-league

He signed a contract with San Jose I think

Simon Elliott plays for the San Jose Earthquakes

Worse squads than last year: CCM (let a few go and not replaced them yet), Adelaide, Sydney, + Fury worse than A-League average

Sydney have a worse squad? Interested to hear your thoughts. I wouldn't have said so, they've also got themselves a much better manager.

Newcastle are better now than they were at the end of last season if ACL squad is anything to go by. Melbourne and Brisbane were already above our standards anyway.

Given the teams that placed below us are now better, I wouldn't be too confident just yet.

I don't think it's going to be resolved quickly either. 

I just have the feeling that we'll wait for the right men, people who genuinely impress rather than taking a punt on something that 'might' work.