WPM 2021/22 Squad Speculation, Confirmation and Mutual Termination

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Very good signing. Could be another Uffie masterstroke in the making guys.

Without knowing too much about him beforehand, and after doing a bit of reading up on him, he's got a lot of football behind him for a 22 year old, has been brought up in a football environment and seems to have an engine about him, as well as a bit of fire in the belly.

Now to lock in some quality visa signings and we'll have another very capable squad at our disposal.




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League 2, or League 1 at a push.

Your having a laugh! He is a much better player than that. Whilst I agree he might not be premier league level yet, I have no doubt he could cut it in the Chanpionship.

The Garbett rumour to the premier league, not that one is a push!
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Sign Joe Bell to a 3 year deal. And get back Stensness. Our midfield would be awesome.
As a Phoenix fan, this would be incredible. As a New Zealand fan, both of those guys are too good and need to be playing in Europe weekly.

Bell has Premier League links according to a Norwegian football journalist on Twitter, so it's a bit of a pipe dream to bring him home. Stensness needs a step up too, he was phenomenal last season which I really didn't see coming and the Olympics are corroborating that
As much as I rate Bell, he's a long way off being a Premier League signing. Only played 10 games for Viking last season. He'd be more likely to go to a League 2 or even League 1 club at a push.


from what I saw today I'd say a L1 team with ambitions of Championship footie or a struggling team in the Champ avoiding the drop.
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Garbett and Stamenic ended up showing more than I expected from them. Great signs!
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A bit off topic but Singh just played for his new team Jahn Regensburg, they won 3 - 0 and the German fans are raving about Singh and how good he is. A shame he didn't play at the Olympics but has payed off for him
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Re: Pennington's "history" . I found this article (https://www.google.it/amp/s/amp.calciomercato.com/news/cagliari-pennington-squalificato-6-mesi-ma-il-referto-e-gonfiato-25717). 
First of all, the incident happened in 2017, and secondly it appears there were significant discrepancies between the referee's report and the images. According to the ref, Nicholas man handled him and showed him hard, and proceeded to take the red card out of his hands and threw it onto the ground. He was also barely restrained by his teammates and was reluctant to leave the field. 
From what I can see (and the images aren't super clear), he gers close to the ref but appears to be pretty composed overall. The ref does bend over to pick up a card so it's likely he did snatch it. 
Still it seems way over the top to cop a 6 month ban for what appears to be a slightly over the top protest (as team captain). 

Anyway, I'm sure Uffie would have done his due diligence and is happy with him and his character 


It's been a lot of lean years since Danny Vukovic, so I am pleased we're finally covering all our weak spots :-)
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Being 22 and transferring between nations, we would have had to pay some training compensation for Pennington. That is surely a sign of confidence in his abilities. 
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I love all how people are putting Bell at League 1 level, which is arguably lower than where he is now.

Bell more than held his own against Japan, a side laced with players playing in top leagues around the world. He looked as good as any other midfielder in our pool play.
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Being 22 and transferring between nations, we would have had to pay some training compensation for Pennington. That is surely a sign of confidence in his abilities. 
Even if we got him on a free?
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Being 22 and transferring between nations, we would have had to pay some training compensation for Pennington. That is surely a sign of confidence in his abilities. 
Even if we got him on a free?
Yep, anytime an u23 player moves between countries it is owed. 

Looking at Example 4 on Page 9, we might have paid up to 100k USD. However clubs can agree to less iirc. https://www.footballaustralia.com.au/sites/ffa/files/2020-06/19-0530%20-%20FFA%20Guide%20to%20Training%20Comp%20and%20Solidarity.pdf
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Sign Joe Bell to a 3 year deal. And get back Stensness. Our midfield would be awesome.
As a Phoenix fan, this would be incredible. As a New Zealand fan, both of those guys are too good and need to be playing in Europe weekly.

Bell has Premier League links according to a Norwegian football journalist on Twitter, so it's a bit of a pipe dream to bring him home. Stensness needs a step up too, he was phenomenal last season which I really didn't see coming and the Olympics are corroborating that
As much as I rate Bell, he's a long way off being a Premier League signing. Only played 10 games for Viking last season. He'd be more likely to go to a League 2 or even League 1 club at a push.

What? He played 29 games for Viking last season, and already has 10 games this season. He’s rated as one of the best midfielders in Norway, which is quickly becoming a very well scouted league due to all the young talent coming through, similar to Belgium, just the money is yet to catch up so the clubs aren’t at quite ready to make UCL group stages and what not. 

Recent departures from the Eliteserien have been to AC Milan (Hauge), Watford (Zinckernagel), Ferencvaros (Zachariassen), who were last seasons UCL group stage, PAOK (Pereira) etc. I don’t think League 2, or even League 1 clubs would be able to afford what Viking would want for him, not to mention it wouldn’t make sense to go to a league like that. If and when he’d leave I’d imagine it would be to either a top 5-12 or so league, or to a second tier of one of the top 5 leagues.

That was the season before according to Wiki? Yeah the Eliteserien has had some players get decent moves, but there's a big difference between those you've linked and Bell. 
Hauge - played over 100 games for the top team in the league the past few seasons and Zinckernagel has played similar.
It's fair to say, I may've been overly critical suggesting League 2, Viking are definitely a decent club, the point I was trying to make was that Bell's not anywhere near EPL level yet. If he did go to a club, he'd inevitably be sent out on loan to a lower league club. I also don't think League 1 is a bad league - some of the clubs in there are large and are only really there due to financial incompetence. 
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Sign Joe Bell to a 3 year deal. And get back Stensness. Our midfield would be awesome.
As a Phoenix fan, this would be incredible. As a New Zealand fan, both of those guys are too good and need to be playing in Europe weekly.

Bell has Premier League links according to a Norwegian football journalist on Twitter, so it's a bit of a pipe dream to bring him home. Stensness needs a step up too, he was phenomenal last season which I really didn't see coming and the Olympics are corroborating that
As much as I rate Bell, he's a long way off being a Premier League signing. Only played 10 games for Viking last season. He'd be more likely to go to a League 2 or even League 1 club at a push.

What? He played 29 games for Viking last season, and already has 10 games this season. He’s rated as one of the best midfielders in Norway, which is quickly becoming a very well scouted league due to all the young talent coming through, similar to Belgium, just the money is yet to catch up so the clubs aren’t at quite ready to make UCL group stages and what not. 

Recent departures from the Eliteserien have been to AC Milan (Hauge), Watford (Zinckernagel), Ferencvaros (Zachariassen), who were last seasons UCL group stage, PAOK (Pereira) etc. I don’t think League 2, or even League 1 clubs would be able to afford what Viking would want for him, not to mention it wouldn’t make sense to go to a league like that. If and when he’d leave I’d imagine it would be to either a top 5-12 or so league, or to a second tier of one of the top 5 leagues.

That was the season before according to Wiki? Yeah the Eliteserien has had some players get decent moves, but there's a big difference between those you've linked and Bell. 
Hauge - played over 100 games for the top team in the league the past few seasons and Zinckernagel has played similar.
It's fair to say, I may've been overly critical suggesting League 2, Viking are definitely a decent club, the point I was trying to make was that Bell's not anywhere near EPL level yet. If he did go to a club, he'd inevitably be sent out on loan to a lower league club. I also don't think League 1 is a bad league - some of the clubs in there are large and are only really there due to financial incompetence. 

The Eliteserien is a summer league because a winter league in Norway would mean too much of a mid season gap, so it runs the same calendar as New Zealand leagues (ie 2020 was last season, 2021 is this season)
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Giancarlo Italiano has just left Sydney for NZ according to his Insta so we have atleast him on the way now and hopefully the rest of them. He will be in MIQ the same time as the Olympics boys 

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Sign Joe Bell to a 3 year deal. And get back Stensness. Our midfield would be awesome.
As a Phoenix fan, this would be incredible. As a New Zealand fan, both of those guys are too good and need to be playing in Europe weekly.

Bell has Premier League links according to a Norwegian football journalist on Twitter, so it's a bit of a pipe dream to bring him home. Stensness needs a step up too, he was phenomenal last season which I really didn't see coming and the Olympics are corroborating that
As much as I rate Bell, he's a long way off being a Premier League signing. Only played 10 games for Viking last season. He'd be more likely to go to a League 2 or even League 1 club at a push.

What? He played 29 games for Viking last season, and already has 10 games this season. He’s rated as one of the best midfielders in Norway, which is quickly becoming a very well scouted league due to all the young talent coming through, similar to Belgium, just the money is yet to catch up so the clubs aren’t at quite ready to make UCL group stages and what not. 

Recent departures from the Eliteserien have been to AC Milan (Hauge), Watford (Zinckernagel), Ferencvaros (Zachariassen), who were last seasons UCL group stage, PAOK (Pereira) etc. I don’t think League 2, or even League 1 clubs would be able to afford what Viking would want for him, not to mention it wouldn’t make sense to go to a league like that. If and when he’d leave I’d imagine it would be to either a top 5-12 or so league, or to a second tier of one of the top 5 leagues.

That was the season before according to Wiki? Yeah the Eliteserien has had some players get decent moves, but there's a big difference between those you've linked and Bell. 
Hauge - played over 100 games for the top team in the league the past few seasons and Zinckernagel has played similar.
It's fair to say, I may've been overly critical suggesting League 2, Viking are definitely a decent club, the point I was trying to make was that Bell's not anywhere near EPL level yet. If he did go to a club, he'd inevitably be sent out on loan to a lower league club. I also don't think League 1 is a bad league - some of the clubs in there are large and are only really there due to financial incompetence. 
The season he played 10 games is this season, still ongoing! Four assists already.

He's absolutely at Championship level minimum imo. He doesn't have to be a nailed-on starter every single week for a West Brom or Fulham, but he's more than good enough to play a significant role at a large number of clubs in the division. He's Viking's best midfielder, and likely a top three player overall.
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Giancarlo Italiano has just left Sydney for NZ according to his Insta so we have atleast him on the way now and hopefully the rest of them. He will be in MIQ the same time as the Olympics boys 


I think Talay is today too
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Lol 😆 
Josh Sotirio is also on the way to Auckland so looks like we might have got them all on the way now. Some good news atleast 
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Sign Joe Bell to a 3 year deal. And get back Stensness. Our midfield would be awesome.
As a Phoenix fan, this would be incredible. As a New Zealand fan, both of those guys are too good and need to be playing in Europe weekly.

Bell has Premier League links according to a Norwegian football journalist on Twitter, so it's a bit of a pipe dream to bring him home. Stensness needs a step up too, he was phenomenal last season which I really didn't see coming and the Olympics are corroborating that
As much as I rate Bell, he's a long way off being a Premier League signing. Only played 10 games for Viking last season. He'd be more likely to go to a League 2 or even League 1 club at a push.

What? He played 29 games for Viking last season, and already has 10 games this season. He’s rated as one of the best midfielders in Norway, which is quickly becoming a very well scouted league due to all the young talent coming through, similar to Belgium, just the money is yet to catch up so the clubs aren’t at quite ready to make UCL group stages and what not. 

Recent departures from the Eliteserien have been to AC Milan (Hauge), Watford (Zinckernagel), Ferencvaros (Zachariassen), who were last seasons UCL group stage, PAOK (Pereira) etc. I don’t think League 2, or even League 1 clubs would be able to afford what Viking would want for him, not to mention it wouldn’t make sense to go to a league like that. If and when he’d leave I’d imagine it would be to either a top 5-12 or so league, or to a second tier of one of the top 5 leagues.

That was the season before according to Wiki? Yeah the Eliteserien has had some players get decent moves, but there's a big difference between those you've linked and Bell. 
Hauge - played over 100 games for the top team in the league the past few seasons and Zinckernagel has played similar.
It's fair to say, I may've been overly critical suggesting League 2, Viking are definitely a decent club, the point I was trying to make was that Bell's not anywhere near EPL level yet. If he did go to a club, he'd inevitably be sent out on loan to a lower league club. I also don't think League 1 is a bad league - some of the clubs in there are large and are only really there due to financial incompetence. 
The season he played 10 games is this season, still ongoing! Four assists already.

He's absolutely at Championship level minimum imo. He doesn't have to be a nailed-on starter every single week for a West Brom or Fulham, but he's more than good enough to play a significant role at a large number of clubs in the division. He's Viking's best midfielder, and likely a top three player overall.
I'd 100% take him at West Brom, we've only got three central midfielders in Livermore, Mowatt and Sawyers and after Sawyers' last two seasons I'd much rather have Bell in his place.
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"Phoenix players Joshua Laws and Jaushua Sotirio, as well as Coach Ufuk Talay, Assistant Coach Giancarlo Italiano and Head Physio Ben Venn are now in managed isolation in Auckland for the required 14-day period; they are scheduled to travel to Wellington on Monday 16 August to join the New Zealand-based players currently at training.

In addition, Phoenix players Callan Elliot, Clayton Lewis, Sam Sutton and Ben Waine have completed their OlyWhites duties at the Tokyo Olympics and have now returned to New Zealand – alongside Phoenix Reserves players Ben Old and Alex Paulsen. These players will also join the squad in Wellington for the week of Monday 16 August at the conclusion of their 14-day period managed isolation period.

The Club are also working to bring Olyroo Reno Piscopo and newly-signed Nicholas Pennington into New Zealand; the former returning from the Tokyo Olympics and the latter joining the Club from his Italy home."



https://www.wellingtonphoenix.com/news/wellington-phoenix-player-and-staff-update 
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"Phoenix players Joshua Laws and Jaushua Sotirio, as well as Coach Ufuk Talay, Assistant Coach Giancarlo Italiano and Head Physio Ben Venn are now in managed isolation in Auckland for the required 14-day period; they are scheduled to travel to Wellington on Monday 16 August to join the New Zealand-based players currently at training.

In addition, Phoenix players Callan Elliot, Clayton Lewis, Sam Sutton and Ben Waine have completed their OlyWhites duties at the Tokyo Olympics and have now returned to New Zealand – alongside Phoenix Reserves players Ben Old and Alex Paulsen. These players will also join the squad in Wellington for the week of Monday 16 August at the conclusion of their 14-day period managed isolation period.

The Club are also working to bring Olyroo Reno Piscopo and newly-signed Nicholas Pennington into New Zealand; the former returning from the Tokyo Olympics and the latter joining the Club from his Italy home."



https://www.wellingtonphoenix.com/news/wellington-phoenix-player-and-staff-update 

Yay, that gets a bit of excitement going for next season.
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I love all how people are putting Bell at League 1 level, which is arguably lower than where he is now.

Bell more than held his own against Japan, a side laced with players playing in top leagues around the world. He looked as good as any other midfielder in our pool play.

As some who watches a lot of league one I think your underestimating its quality.  Don't forget that was where Taylor last played in the UK and he was not standout.  League 1 is better then most divisions in Europe with the Championship being one of the very best.
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Wanderers fans seem utterly convinced they have signed Piscopo. This seems to be based on him being quarantined in Sydney (I'm pretty sure you don't get to pick where your quarantine). Very strange. 
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Wanderers fans seem utterly convinced they have signed Piscopo. This seems to be based on him being quarantined in Sydney (I'm pretty sure you don't get to pick where your quarantine). Very strange. 

I also heard the same from someone but just look to be rumours. We did pay a fee for him so doubt we would let him go unless they payed us. He probably just flew back to Sydney to join the rest of his Aussie team and does have an injury 
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Wanderers fans seem utterly convinced they have signed Piscopo. This seems to be based on him being quarantined in Sydney (I'm pretty sure you don't get to pick where your quarantine). Very strange. 

I also heard the same from someone but just look to be rumours. We did pay a fee for him so doubt we would let him go unless they payed us. He probably just flew back to Sydney to join the rest of his Aussie team and does have an injury 


Not the first time I've seen these rumours though. First seemed to surface not long before they announced Hemed.
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A person on Twitter who is reasonably  reliable did say a friend of theirs from the Nix told them it's true but we will see
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Surely there's a 0% chance we release him given the fee we paid. Figure there's about as much to this as there were with the David Ball rumours. No reason for the Nix to make a donation to WSW.
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You'd imagine he's in Sydney because he flew back with the Australian Olympic team, doubt he could have hitched a ride back on the chartered NZ Olympic flight.

But we'll have to wait and see, with the uncertainty around travel bubbles and the A-League season the Nix won't be a very attractive place for an in demand Australian at the moment. You'd expect he'd have to buy his way out of his contract or there would have to be a player swap or something because, as has been said, we paid a fee for him and presumably we consider him pretty important for us next year.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but i thought that in this new ownership version of the league, that transfers between clubs were allowed. So if he is signing, surely we aren't letting him go for nothing. 
Will be a pretty big deal if he goes though. Without him and uli, we havent got anyone to create
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but i thought that in this new ownership version of the league, that transfers between clubs were allowed. So if he is signing, surely we aren't letting him go for nothing. 
Will be a pretty big deal if he goes though. Without him and uli, we havent got anyone to create

The domestic transfer system isn't in place yet. It is on the To Do List for Football Australia. 
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but i thought that in this new ownership version of the league, that transfers between clubs were allowed. So if he is signing, surely we aren't letting him go for nothing. 
Will be a pretty big deal if he goes though. Without him and uli, we havent got anyone to create
Don't think so, there was a white paper released on it earlier in the year but I don't think it's progressed past that. I'd expect a transfer system would be an FA thing not an A-League thing.
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I really hope we keep Piscopo.
But him leaving is the only thing that makes Uffy wanting another Import Striker make sense. 
ST Import + Hooper
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Waine/Sotirio bench

With Piscopo there, we had too much quality to leave one + Waine on the bench
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kwlap

Correct me if I'm wrong, but i thought that in this new ownership version of the league, that transfers between clubs were allowed. So if he is signing, surely we aren't letting him go for nothing. 
Will be a pretty big deal if he goes though. Without him and uli, we havent got anyone to create
Don't think so, there was a white paper released on it earlier in the year but I don't think it's progressed past that. I'd expect a transfer system would be an FA thing not an A-League thing.
ah Thanks for that. Didn't know it didn't go anywhere. 
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Wanderers fans seem utterly convinced they have signed Piscopo. This seems to be based on him being quarantined in Sydney (I'm pretty sure you don't get to pick where your quarantine). Very strange. 

So he's now doing 2 weeks MIQ in Sydney. After that can he fly to Wellington without having to do a further 2 weeks MIQ in NZ? ie get some sort of exemption.

4 weeks MIQ back to back, now that would be very very unattractive. Given that the TT bubble looks like being reinstated too late, for Piscopo to just sit in Aus waiting to join Nix preseason.

If Piscopo does go to WSW, I imagine he'll be seeking out Ziggy Gordon for an apology. I wonder if that shoulder injury was still troubling him in Japan, hence no playing time for Olyroos.
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I really hope we keep Piscopo.
But him leaving is the only thing that makes Uffy wanting another Import Striker make sense. 
ST Import + Hooper
AM Import + Ball 
Waine/Sotirio bench

With Piscopo there, we had too much quality to leave one + Waine on the bench
Why not? Having the luxury of bringing a player like Waine, Piscipo, Ball, etc off the bench is surely what we want? We don't want a strong starting XI but no depth.
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I really hope we keep Piscopo.
But him leaving is the only thing that makes Uffy wanting another Import Striker make sense. 
ST Import + Hooper
AM Import + Ball 
Waine/Sotirio bench

With Piscopo there, we had too much quality to leave one + Waine on the bench
Why not? Having the luxury of bringing a player like Waine, Piscipo, Ball, etc off the bench is surely what we want? We don't want a strong starting XI but no depth.

My preference would be a stronger DM / CB / LB / RB rather than having so many attacking players that David Ball is on the bench.
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I'm pretty happy with the squad so far aslong as we keep Piscopo. Definitely still need another back up CB and midfielder. I see Tommy Semmy is on trial at the Jets 
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It's amazing how on a basis of a rumour we started planning our front line without Piscopo in this thread. 
I have no inside knowledge, so it is only my assumption that he had no other way to return from Tokyo without paying a fare. He will stay put until the Sydney lockdown ends, and at most he would have some training locally first, probably with a NPL side etc.   I may be wrong, this is just my guess.
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It's amazing how on a basis of a rumour we started planning our front line without Piscopo in this thread. 
I have no inside knowledge, so it is only my assumption that he had no other way to return from Tokyo without paying a fare. He will stay put until the Sydney lockdown ends, and at most he would have some training locally first, probably with a NPL side etc.   I may be wrong, this is just my guess.
He was injured at the Olympics. Calf injury. Same injury that troubled him all of last season, and he ending up missing what seemed like half the season. Getting that sorted has to be priority number 1.
He would have been absolutely gutted to not get any game time at the Olympics because of that injury. It'll be a tough quarantine for the guy.
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By half-way through next season Hemed is going to wish he'd stayed at the Nix and partnered with Piscopo up forward. :) 
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