2017/18 Transfer Speculation

Can picture the impact of Narelle on the denizens of the Five Bells.

yeah could be true but I'd believe Ifill more (he is a Millwall man) and I doubt Lewis would have turned down a pro contract to play in the U20s

Burns leaving Tokyo

https://www.fourfourtwo.com.au/news/jets-target-bu...

[quote=Tyler]And it's actually nice to have a Wellingtonian too...... 

But Sky won't move it's football coms team to Wgtn. So he would need a "Personal Reasons" out clause 

Twitter post from Paul Ifill that suggests he thinks Lewis is up to the grade

https://mobile.twitter.com/PaulIfill/status/877642...

That's good enough for me.Sign him up

ADL: Izzo
BRI: Ben Khalfallah
CCM: Hiariej, Baro, Golec, Hoole, Kennedy
MCY: Galekovic
MVC: R Williams Barbarouses
NEW: Moss, Georgievski, Topor-Stanley, Shabow, D Petratos, O’Donovan, K Petratos
PER: Nichols Neville Posocliero
SYD: Retre
WEL: None
WSW: Risdon, Bonevacia, Thwaite

We have 18 players signed out of a maximum squad of 23, so don't expect us to be announcing players every week. Things will take time because we need quality, not quantity. I feel for Adelaide fans who have only 12 senior contracts signed & so far only recruited Izzo.

Club very quiet regarding any potential new signings, I realise that we have only installed a new manager but Rado must know of any potential ozzie signings...Hate the off season and already it feels like the longest off season ever!!!

We only have a maximum of 5 roster spots remaining, two of which will be visa signings. So we are only talking about a potential 3 Aussie/NZ signings, all of which need to be starters. Im sure Rado probably knows the likes of Burns/Paartalu & ofc Dario but they will have other options, so it might take awhile to talk them into looking at us.

Kalezić also said when he first started that the club can't afford to make bad signings so will take their time to find the right people. Dome also said at the time that a number of players were quite far down the line of discussions but that deals can fall apart at the last minute so they aren't going to announce anything.

seems fair

Personally, I'll consider this transfer window a failure if we don't get Burns, Vidosic and Clayton Lewis.

We have strong enough connections with all three, be it through club or personnel, and more than enough cap space to make them content (for at least one year of a multi-year deal, anyway!)

Add decent right-back and defensive-mid visa players, and we've improved on several of our departures with plenty of room for younger players to come through when national team duties roll around again

I can predict with almost mathematical certainty that we won't get any of those players, let alone all three, so you're off to a bad start.

It would be fantastic if we could pick up atleast two of Burns, Vidosic, Partalu and Lewis.

According to Lawrie McKinna, the Jets would need to move some players to get Burns. C'mon Domey, get it done!

I would take Burns back as a winger but still want a genuine striker. I doubt he would score as many goals again, and even in that season our lack of height/size up front was a tactical problem once teams stopped pushing up against us. 

Wellington Phoenix (18 signed, 2 visa spots remaining)

Lewis Italiano, Ryan Lowry, Dylan Fox, Gui Finkler, Michael McGlinchey, Hamish Watson, Adam Parkhouse, Marco Rossi, Alex Rufer, James McGarry, Tom Doyle, Roy Krishna, Andrew Durante, Matthew Ridenton, Sarpreet Singh, Louis Fenton, Oli Sail, Logan Rogerson

Looking at the already signed players im just interested in what people think of who or what can be added to this squad of players that will get them to the the playoffs this season. From a personal perspective I think it looks very weak in places

All 5 players we sign need to be starters I'd say, or at least close to starters

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Where is the rush? He is a Kiwi and pretty much no other team will sign him as an import. We can wait on him.

I have 4 starters definitely as Oska said at RB, Striker and 2 in the midfield (of some variety) 

2 are imports so we need to find 2 Kiwi/AU starters. 

Its not going to be easy I suspect

Take out the u23 who are not under the cap, then work out how many signing of Aus/NZ players available (2 x Visa spots a given if we can find them)

From Ozwords.org:

"Something about the line ‘the drink you’re having when you’re not having a drink’ struck a chord with the Australian public. Clayton’s was a word waiting to happen, and it came to mean ‘something that is largely illusory or exists in name only; a poor substitute or imitation’.

http://ozwords.org/?p=3240

If we play a midfield three and our current mid stocks are Wee Mac, Finkler, Rufer, Ridenton and Singh then yeah he'd be a starter

Maybe not recently, but a year ago, I'd say yeah.

Has by all accounts been a stand out at NZFC and his recent All White form suggests he's worth a shot and is probably closer to a starting spot than most of the NIX youth players. Personally I think he could do a job and would be happy to sign him, although I  am not sure what his best position will be, playing as a AM or maybe trying the box to box roll. Has a good engine and can deliver a pass.

Lewis used to be crap. But has, with age + experience, become a very good player in recent months. kinda was hoping ridenton would show the same.

Fixed

Gotta love that - a 20 year old player who "used to be crap". 

When was he crap? Obviously has to be within the last couple of years otherwise he's getting too young to make an assertion like that. 

He debuted for the U20s a month after his 18th birthday, so he must have been crap somewhere just before that? Or did he make that team despite being crap?

I bet you even in the national league, Lewis > Ridenton when they played season just gone.