Sarpong Pour Moi

He's our Thierry Henri, apparently:

http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/article/2015/09/26/...

Holy crap, someone else has heard of Plastic Bertrand?

I don't get it.. I mean I get the song goes well and sounds cool but what is the significance of Sarpong Pour Moi? He's not French?

Wait, so this is an official chant now? Sweet, love it!

Pfft - you're all European to me anyway.

Roly also isn't Scottish, remember.

France, Holland, Scotland - they're all part of the greater federation of Eurotrashonia anyway

Why can't chants just be cool because they are fun?

Good choice there Doloras. Yes I remember. And I think this would make an excellent chant!

Jet boy, jet girl...

Now that would be good. If the Fever showed up in the stand earlier one day we could give it a go.

PLAYER ANNOUNCEMENT: Phoenix & Jeffrey Sarpong have reached a mutual decision to terminate contract .https://t.co/svBl0l02wH

— Wellington Phoenix (@WgtnPhoenixFC) January 31, 2016

wow. good news. just enough time left in the window to bring someone in!

His heart clearly wasn't in it. Hope he has a good career and this was just a blip.

So do we get someone in the next day or what? Because couldn't we have done that with a Krishna injury replacement anyway?

Unless it's a multi year contract.

Sarpong didn't fit in for whatever reason. Hope the rest of his career goes well.

Hopefully they have someone in mind and needed the sarpong cash to sign em.

Hopefully.

Sad news though, I had high hopes for him.

Could also be he asked to be released as he has another offer and we don't have anyone in mind to sign.

Probably never felt welcome in Wellington after he saw that the barber in James Smith Corner has a "no flat-tops" sign

Sorry, I know this question gets asked every time so one leaves before their contract is up...... But [even with a mutually agreed parting] does his salary still fall as part of the cap until his contract was meant to be finished [end of next season].?

Doubt it, I'd say his contract at to now counts against the cap.

honourable discharge..

Would it depend on whether we paid out the whole contract or not? If he was willing to walk without pay because he had something lined up then would it only be the money we have paid him already which would count against the cap?

The reason was that he just didn't seem to give a shark when on the pitch

So the rest of his salary for the season won't count, unless we paid it all out to him at once when we released him.

It will be very interesting to see how his career goes from here. 

I wish him well but If he goes and flys elsewhere we do have to ask some serious questions about the mangement of him whilst here

In the interim however we need to ask the question what failed in this recruitment so we don't stuff up the next one

What failed was bringing in a square peg to fill a round hole.

Burns was a huge exception to the rule. The rule hasn't changed.

turned out to be a terrible piece of business

Add him to a long list of A-league players who have flopped after coming here with a decent history.

He'd be near the top

Would be an interesting exercise to analyse the relative success of each A-league import (whether marquee or not) out of ten - in terms of success (in the context of the role they came in to play). For example: a rating out of ten for value, performance, expectation, etc etc.

Whilst I'm interested my lack of footballing competence eliminates me from effectively producing such analysis. Phew.