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Post by spens1 on Jan 27, 2016 3:58:16 GMT
Both Adam Taggart and Shane Lowry have signed with the Perth Glory after being released from Fulham and Birmingham City respectively
well damn, Perth doing some work here. They're going to be very good next season, a strikeforce of Andy Keogh and Adam Taggart might be the best in the league. Lowry also is a great left sided CB and more than adequate replacement for the outgoing Thwaite
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Post by spens1 on Jan 29, 2016 1:16:01 GMT
speculation at the moment but its being reported that in order to raise the standard and prestige of AFC Cup, starts from 2017 there will be great changes towards the format of AFC Cup
1. clubs who eliminated from ACL qualifying rounds enters AFC cup group stage
2.clubs who failed to qualify from ACL group stage enters AFC Cup round of 32
If this is all true, then this is fantastic for all the major CL countries, especially Aus and China, who are pretty shit at the CL, it even helps Korea
Hopefully this leads to spots available for these countries getting into the AFC Cup outright (i.e. Australia getting 2-3 CL spots and a AFC up spot, Japan getting 4 CL spots and 2 AFC cup spots, China and Korea getting 3 CL spots and 2 AFC cup spots, Malaysia with maybe 1+1 in ACL and 2 in the AFC cup etc)
if it becomes like a Europa League, but a lot more lucrative, meaning teams actually have something to play for, that would be great (ACL needs to be more lucrative as it is, teams are losing money if they aren't in the final 2)
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Post by spens1 on Jan 29, 2016 9:47:52 GMT
Great, just great
James Troisi to Liaoning Whowin (clearly not you lot if you finished 12th out of 16 teams)
our national team is a bunch of greedy pricks i swear. Sainsbury (though if he is getting 8.5 million euros per year, well worth it) and now Troisi, I have no issue with Michael Thwaite going because he's the other side of 30 and getting that last paycheck is important, but not in the prime of your career in a league that is notorious for being:
a) very impaitent with their players
b) players not lasting very long because of culture shock
c) very little scouting from european teams
d) the way clubs operate being very different from anywhere (club directors and executives even running training, yes this happens for some reason)
I would have loved a move to the J-League for him, at least that puts him in a shop window for Europe (and Troisi would be a good enough level, since Burns is at Toyko) but this move to a lower end Chinese team is a disgrace
Ange needs to seriously consider dropping Troisi and Sainsbury (who for the national team have been pretty bad anyway as of late) and after this Qualifying campaign, have a review and maybe even consider bringing in new talent (get the contacts in europe ready and contact those players)
we will need to blood the next generation of youngster now i think (the likes of Ryo Ito, Rene Pipsco, Danny De Silva, Milos Degenik (the CB from Hertha Berlin)) because a lot of these players seem more than happy to throw their careers away for money
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Post by spens1 on Feb 2, 2016 23:55:23 GMT
Guangzhou Evergrande have signed Jackson Martinez for 45 million Euro's ($70 million dollars) in what has to be the largest transfer in the history of football in Asia. The Chinese Super League isn't playing around, i was wondering why Evergrande where so quiet, clearly this is why. This blows a lot of the other deals out of the water, mind you they still need to work on the domestic quality but now i feel a bit better that the likes of Sainsbury are there, because at least he'll be versing world class opposition in Gervinho and Martinez. I am positive Atletico Madrid are happy also. They get a 10 million profit on a 29 year old striker who wasn't performing. Can imagine they'll go in for a really good striker in the summer (like a Aubameyang or Lewandowski) www.thesportbible.com/articles/breaking-jackson-martinez-completes-biggest-transfer-of-2016-in-eu45-million-move-020216 |
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Post by spens1 on Feb 3, 2016 5:17:14 GMT
In addition to this signing Freddy Montero has signed with Tianjin Teda also Alex Teixera is being linked with a 50 million pound move to Jiasung Suning. (Ramires, Teixeira, Sergio Escudero, Sammir and Trent Sainsbury as the foreigners, that is ridiculous, though i could imagine Escudero will be gone now that Sainsbury is in with Sammir possibly out of Texeira does indeed join them) What the hell is this Former Chelsea man Gael Kakuta could be on his way to Hebei Fortune for $7 million (or around 4.5 million euro's) www.chinatopix.com/articles/76091/20160202/football-transfer-news-hebei-china-fortune-offers-%E2%82%AC6-million-gael-kakuta-sevilla.htmChina is basically buying there way to being the best league in asia (though their domestic players still needs to improve a lot, doesn't help when they draw against teams like Hong Kong) |
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Post by spens1 on Feb 3, 2016 5:46:01 GMT
hopefully Australia gets TV rights for the league (that is foxtel, not Bein) so can see how the league is going
still skeptical until the domestic quality goes up, if it was at least at like the thai or uzbek level, it would be respectable. Even the Saudi's domestic players are pretty decent and some of the UAE players are solid (Omar Abdullramen is the best asian player still in asia), if they get around that level, they will be easily the best league in asia, if their domestic players get on the level of an a-league or k-league level or even better, a j-league team, best league outside europe
The money they are spending on transfers, each club needs to spend double on development (not mutually exclusive) but if each major club spent 100 mill on youth development there and got coaches from eastern europe, spain, brazil etc, they'll be great.
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Post by spens1 on Feb 5, 2016 0:46:53 GMT
Think everyone saw this already but Jiangsu Suming have signed Alex Teixeira from Shaktar Donetsk for 35 million pounds (335 million Yuan) He joins fellow signings Ramires (Chelsea) and Trent Sainsbury (PEC Zwolle) at the club The chinese transfer window is still open till the 26th of February by the way, so we could very well see more signings made by the big chinese clubs (in a game of one upsmanship) For the second time in about 3 days, this breaks the Chinese transfer record, and the third time this window the Chinese Super League will make for good football this season They've also been linked with Wayne Rooney and Yaya Toure www.ibtimes.co.uk/chinese-super-league-why-850bn-investment-could-tempt-wayne-rooney-new-football-superpower-1541686could honestly see both going to China at the end of the season |
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Post by spens1 on Feb 5, 2016 5:02:07 GMT
Shanghai Shenhua are in for Hulk for get this. 91 MILLION EURO'S Zenit, take that money and run www.goal.com/en/news/14222/transfer-talk/2016/02/04/20012602/rumours-zenit-braced-for-91m-hulk-bid?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitterChelsea have rejected a 57 million pound bid for Oscar from Jiangsu Suming (surprise) Escudero and Sammir are gone, no way they stay at the club the way they're going ezequiel Lavezzi could also be joining Beijing Guo'on hopefully the exposure + academies coming up improves chinese football to a standard where they are one of the regulars to the world cup (would certainly heat things up in the road to the 4th automatic world cup qualifying spot in asia, though chances are the arab nations will want to break away and we'll get a west asia and east asia + oceania split, hopefully east asia get 3.5 spots and west asia get 1.5 like it should be) edit: Ersan Gulum joins Hebei Fortune, even though he is a turkish international (traitor etc etc) he is eligable to be a +1 due to playing for Australia in the olympics and Junior teams (Lolger being generally the worst manager on the planet and encouraging our best LB to play for turkey, i would beat the shit of Holger just for that, especially given that Carney the pleb lost us the asian cup a year later) anyway he joins from Bestikas and joins other arrivals Gervinho (Roma) and Stephane Mbia (Trabzonspor) |
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Post by spens1 on Feb 5, 2016 5:38:10 GMT
in Australian news, Alex Wilkinson has signed for Melbourne City, he joins after being released from Jeonbuk
Adrian Leijer has joined Suwon FC (i think i mentioned that before)
and Billy Celeski has joined J-League outfit Ventforet Kofu
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Post by Dave on Feb 5, 2016 10:56:36 GMT
Chelsea have rejected a 57 million pound bid for Oscar from Jiangsu Suming (surprise) That just can't be true. If I was Chelsea fan I'd be flying him over there myself. That is insane money to turn down even for Chelsea. |
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Post by Red Or Dead on Feb 5, 2016 11:10:46 GMT
I'd be packing his bag for him if it's true and then I'd throw Fellaini for free in as well if they were offering a sum like 57 million
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Post by spens1 on Feb 5, 2016 11:26:14 GMT
Chelsea have rejected a 57 million pound bid for Oscar from Jiangsu Suming (surprise) That just can't be true. If I was Chelsea fan I'd be flying him over there myself. That is insane money to turn down even for Chelsea. yeah i agree. but apparently so, either that or the agent is talking him up. Maybe because its out of the window and chelsea can't get a replacement either way at least agree a transfer in july if thats the case. nearly 60 mill for him is insane |
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Post by spens1 on Feb 5, 2016 11:27:00 GMT
I'd be packing his bag for him if it's true and then I'd throw Fellaini for free in as well if they were offering a sum like 57 million 57 million for Fellaini is really wishful thinking i mean if we got 30 million for him we should pack his bags and fly him to china |
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Post by Red Or Dead on Feb 5, 2016 11:56:56 GMT
I meant the Oscar deal Spens and I'd even give them Fellaini for free on top for 57 million to get rid of him....  |
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Post by Splendid Spy on Feb 5, 2016 12:10:05 GMT
You willing to pay 57mil to ship fellaini out? I would rather pay him and have him mow the lawn
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