Good to see Valencia signing two very competent central defenders in Garay and Mangala. Hopefully Ryan continues to start and he gets better protection from that pairing. I'm a bit concerned that Alves didn't get a move, though. Valencia's chairman had said only two keepers would be staying (presumably Jaume and Ryan), but with Alves staying at least until January it may cause Ryan to drop back down the pecking order.

I don't mind Ikonimidis' move, Denmark is a reasonable level and more than anything he needs first team action at this point in his career.

Disappointing also that Kruse wasn't loaned out. I can't see him getting much game time at Leverkusen. A real waste to have him sitting on the bench during the early stages of the WC campaign.

Disappointing move for Ikon. Kind of shows where his club think's he's at. Playing for a bottom half Danish team is nothing to get excited about for a young player who was held in high regard. 

If he was still held in such regard he'd be on loan to a better club and/or league. 

Better than not moving. But you'd hope he can stand out otherwise his stocks will plummet.

Also, not really sure if he counts as an "Aussie Abroad" for the purposes of this thread, but shout-out to striker Emile Damey of Victorian NPL 2 East club Nunawading City FC, who arrived in Australia as an 11-year-old refugee and made his debut overnight for his native Liberia, coming off the bench to score a debut goal against Morocco! Apparently he drew praise from Liberian legend George Weah, too.

when Ange is pulling players from the bottom of English League one  and has use 60 plus player in Soccerroos squads , , that fringe is still a long way away

sure, different positions,,, but not really for McGrath and Mabil....

maybe, or AGF paid the most money and was best fit.....but I  agree it's a disappointing move for a guy who keep getting selective for Soccerroo games  

Aarhaus...is a very very very fine haus...

with two cats in the yard...

Wilkshire has re-signed at his old Russian club, Dinamo Moscow. They play in the second division after a surprise relegation last season. He sounds really happy to be back there, good luck to him.

Wilkshire will retire with 20-30 million by the time he's done. Good luck to him.

Odd timing with the announcement but Leckie has extended his contract with FC Ingolstadt until 2019.
Source: Ingolstadt's official twitter account.

Antonis  has been loaned to Greek 1st league side Veria.

still in Greek Super League

Man, I was certain a few years ago that Antonis would be a regular Socceroo by now.

He's stagnated, big time. Injuries haven't helped, of course...

How annoying is international break

me to....but it just this year

Antonis has been a huge disappointment. He's been talked about as the next big thing for sooooo long.

He wouldn't even be our 10th choice CM atm.

he progress has only been slowed since going to greece.  before that he was tracking ok.

a good loan/transfer and he might well be back in the picture.

Panos Armenakas made his debut for Udinese last night coming on late against Olimpija Ljubljana

Wow that's pretty big. 

Probably wipp get lost in the 18 man bench though. 

great news!  not the serie a quicksand bench.  armenakas and o'neill coming through is good news.

i'm guessing they udinese had alot of players missing for international games

need to see how many other youth players started

Deni Juric brother of Tomi scores in his first appearance for Hajduk Split last night on his birthday, not bad debut.

Good stuff from Deni Juric but worth mentioning it was a friendly against a Bosnian club rather than a league appearance.

People talking about Amini to be called up to the Socceroos.. What he has done to warrant a call up?

Also on Panos, was that a league game or friendly?

Friendly 

very friendly.  it looks like there were about 11 subs and our boy came on at 87mins.  he is very low down the order.  time for a loan :)

James Demetriou has signed for Karmiotissa FC in the Cyprus

he play in Europe , in  the same team as Ikonomidis  :D

Aside from Arnekas and Juric making debuts last weekend, Jordan Holmes played 45 mins in a friendly against AC Milan. Antonis and Konstantinidis both came off the bench for Veria in a friendly. Konstantinidis has just transferred to the Super League from Aris.

Lots of friendly action for our young Aussies at big clubs. Will be interesting to see who gets competitive gametime now.

Geez. I remember seeing him on soccer way thinking why bother mentioning him. Good on him on making the leap.