23. only 11 months younger than maclaren.

what's he been doing?

Scoring a bunch of goals in the third division. Gavin Di Niese is there as well (the one from River Plate).

If I could've asked for anything for Christmas, it would be for some promising Aussie goal scoring Striker to pop up out of absolutely nowhere at an age where he's near ready to contribute for the national team.
We really need someone like this to come through and actually be good (I don't have much faith in Maclaren).
Wiki has him at 14 goals in 25 games in Portugals third div. Not too bad.

On the down side... even if he is half decent, he won't see any game time at Benfica for a looooong time.

Agreed what a great late Xmas gift but he will probably struggle to get game time. Interesting signing by Benfica as he is 23 and not some youth signing that will just play in the junior sides, or develop and on-sell. They must see something that they can use for the first team squad otherwise why sign him

Great story about Anthony Carter, I think he was in Romania a couple years ago too.

Shows what persistence can do if our players are prepared to stick it out, recently with McGree and Mauk are latest examples of players not prepared to tough it out at there clubs or drop back down a league to work there way back up and instead they come back home.

Too many take the easy way out, even though Carter has never been through the current player pathways here he took the tough way to earn a pro contract and earned a ticket at one of the biggest clubs Portugal, pleased for him! 

Exactly. Apparently it was a long term contract too.
But it could just be a gamble since proven Strikers are so dam expensive these days.

Has anyone got any news about the young lad Jacob Italiano's trip to Germany? Has a deal been done with Gladbach? 

Elder, Luongo and Meredith starting
90 minutes for Caceres

Tondela tweeting a write up on Ansell in a Portuguese paper:

Edit: Seems 442 have made their own article with quotes from this one.

Old Firm Derby at 11pm AEDT tonight.

Not sure if a deal was done, but he's been named on the bench away to Sydney today.

Rogic not in squad for the derby. 

he's still out injured to probably mid Jan

hopefully he never returns to celtic.  every transfer period i wait and hope.

would be great @ somewhere in the epl

Maty starting away to Newcastle in 20 minutes.

Tim Krul returns to his old stomping ground but will be resigned to watching the match from the bench lol.

Some starters: Ryan, Mooy, Irvine, Jedinak (DM), Burgess, Williams, Rose, Edwards, Dykes

remind me who dykes is and who he plays for?

Forward/AM at Queen of South, Scotland second tier.

Irvine gets an assist

Maty w/ last minute diving save. woop

Ince is done. 54' wow subbed out

Ruka starting
Gallifuoco in the hunt for promotion at Dover in the conference

Good game from Ryan. Newcastle deserve to be relegated, irritating supporters.

normal GK's game. 
Hudders needed a Mounie goal. Rubbish game to watch
Maty postgame interbiew, motm ? dunno. sometimes he likes a dive when its a simple stop. hehe, nuthing wrong with that :)

Full match and win away to Boro for Jedi, playing DM.

Full match and an assist for Irvine in a 2-2 draw at home to Fulham.

Full match and draw away to Blackburn for Burgess.

Big match for Wright against Wolves.

Maty Ryan again with the clean sheet and what looks like a MOTM performance. Check out the highlights, pulled off a few incredible saves.

Mabil currently on the park vs Porto in the cup. He got subbed on in the 58th minute. Currently they are 2-3 down with 15 minutes to go

Hyuga Tanner has signed with Bala Town in Wales. The club said he was just on trial in Japan, disappointing he didn't get a contract there as it would have been a more interesting move