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Posted March 04, 2018 10:31 · last edited March 04, 2018 10:36

DJ Jazzy Jeff Sarpong wrote:

reg22 wrote:

Also, I think it needs to be remembered that the A-League sits somewhere between the Championship and League one in terms of playing standard and I would suggest we need to start looking at imports who are at least significantly better than the A-League median

This. You look at most other team's imports, loads of them come from leagues far better than the A-League. Brisbane got Maccarone from Serie A and Eric Beautheac from Ligue 1. WSW got Cejudo and Riera from La Liga, Llorente from the Greek league. The Mariners got Brama and Hiariej from the Eredivise, Perth got Castro and Xavi Torres from La Liga, Keogh from the EFL Championship. Sydney signed Bobo after having had a long career in the Brazilian and Turkish top flight, Buijs from the Eredivisie. Victory got Sanchez from the Argentinian 1st division. Adelaide got Adlung from a good 2. Bundesliga team, Diawara came from the Portuguese first division, Cavusevic from the Swiss league. 

Then you have Ljujic and Kaludjerovic from the Lithuainian league, Paracki from a mid-tier Croatian league team, and Rossi from an average Serie B Italian team. And sure, there are lots of other imports from lesser known leagues (like ours) that I haven't mentioned. But those include Milos Ninkovic, Leroy George and Bruno Fornaroli. Our imports are trash compared to the rest of the league, its no wonder we are last

Why does nobody seem to realise this? This seeming lack of ambition really stinks out the club. And before people bring up Ifill's EPL fling on one end and Sarpong's La Liga experience on the other - Ifill was a 30 year old reserve/transfer listee for a very poor Championship team when we signed him, and Sarpong only played 19 games in La Liga in 3 years + got his contract terminated by a second tier Dutch side the season we got him. 

We have never signed a player with anywhere near the pedigree of what other clubs are bringing in. Sure we lucked out with Ifill, but there is a way better chance that you'll actually get a good player if you're looking at Ligue 1 or La Liga players instead of Lithuanian and Thai league rejects.

(Also Ninkovic came from Evian in Ligue 1 iirc - and George + Fornaroli still came from better teams than any player we've picked up recently!)

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Unknown editor edited March 04, 2018 10:36
DJ Jazzy Jeff Sarpong wrote:
reg22 wrote:

Also, I think it needs to be remembered that the A-League sits somewhere between the Championship and League one in terms of playing standard and I would suggest we need to start looking at imports who are at least significantly better than the A-League median

This. You look at most other team's imports, loads of them come from leagues far better than the A-League. Brisbane got Maccarone from Serie A and Eric Beautheac from Ligue 1. WSW got Cejudo and Riera from La Liga, Llorente from the Greek league. The Mariners got Brama and Hiariej from the Eredivise, Perth got Castro and Xavi Torres from La Liga, Keogh from the EFL Championship. Sydney signed Bobo after having had a long career in the Brazilian and Turkish top flight, Buijs from the Eredivisie. Victory got Sanchez from the Argentinian 1st division. Adelaide got Adlung from a good 2. Bundesliga team, Diawara came from the Portuguese first division, Cavusevic from the Swiss league. 

Then you have Ljujic and Kaludjerovic from the Lithuainian league, Paracki from a mid-tier Croatian league team, and Rossi from an average Serie B Italian team. And sure, there are lots of other imports from lesser known leagues (like ours) that I haven't mentioned. But those include Milos Ninkovic, Leroy George and Bruno Fornaroli. Our imports are trash compared to the rest of the league, its no wonder we are last

Why does nobody seem to realise this? This seeming lack of ambition really stinks out the club. And before people bring up guys like Ifill on one end and Sarpong on the other - Ifill was a 30 year old reserve/transfer listee for a very poor Championship team when we signed him, and Sarpong only played 19 games in La Liga in 3 years + got his contract terminated by a second tier Dutch side the season we got him. 

We have never signed a player with anywhere near the pedigree of what other clubs are bringing in. Sure we lucked out with Ifill, but there is a way better chance that you'll actually get a good player if you're looking at Ligue 1 or La Liga players instead of Lithuanian and Thai league rejects.

(Also Ninkovic came from Evian in Ligue 1 iirc - and George + Fornaroli still came from better teams than any player we've pickeed up recently!)

Unknown editor edited March 04, 2018 10:34
DJ Jazzy Jeff Sarpong wrote:
reg22 wrote:

Also, I think it needs to be remembered that the A-League sits somewhere between the Championship and League one in terms of playing standard and I would suggest we need to start looking at imports who are at least significantly better than the A-League median

This. You look at most other team's imports, loads of them come from leagues far better than the A-League. Brisbane got Maccarone from Serie A and Eric Beautheac from Ligue 1. WSW got Cejudo and Riera from La Liga, Llorente from the Greek league. The Mariners got Brama and Hiariej from the Eredivise, Perth got Castro and Xavi Torres from La Liga, Keogh from the EFL Championship. Sydney signed Bobo after having had a long career in the Brazilian and Turkish top flight, Buijs from the Eredivisie. Victory got Sanchez from the Argentinian 1st division. Adelaide got Adlung from a good 2. Bundesliga team, Diawara came from the Portuguese first division, Cavusevic from the Swiss league. 

Then you have Ljujic and Kaludjerovic from the Lithuainian league, Paracki from a mid-tier Croatian league team, and Rossi from an average Serie B Italian team. And sure, there are lots of other imports from lesser known leagues (like ours) that I haven't mentioned. But those include Milos Ninkovic, Leroy George and Bruno Fornaroli. Our imports are trash compared to the rest of the league, its no wonder we are last

Why does nobody seem to realise this? This seeming lack of ambition really stinks out the club. And before people bring up guys like Ifill on one end and Sarpong on the other - Ifill was a 30 year old reserve/transfer listee for a very poor Championship team when we signed him, and Sarpong only played 19 games in La Liga in 3 years + got his contract terminated by a second tier Dutch side the season we got him. 

We have never signed a player with anywhere near the pedigree of what other clubs are bringing in. Sure we lucked out with Ifill, but there is a way better chance that you'll actually get a good player if you're looking at Ligue 1 or La Liga players instead of Lithuanian and Thai league rejects