I imagine it would. A big shame for the guy if it has.

Sami Hyypia (Bayer Leverkusen's manager) has been sacked, wonder if this will have any influence on the transfer.

Birraz has been inconsistent this season but was very good last year. His decision making and positioning are at times lacking but he has still made many great saves. He's still better than Vedran

Very, very long since forgotten, Vedran has been great this season. MB has very long way to go before he redeems himself and gets anywhere near Vedran's quality.

Vedran is 4 years older than Biraz.

And let us not forget his flap at Craig Goodwin's freekick last season :lol:

Janjetovic and Birrighitti are at the same level.

Good god no, Vedran is in a different class. I don't believe he's cost us points this season but has won us plenty.

Birrighitti's distribution is a bit better though.

:lol: how did you leave Vedran out of that list?

He must've been more consistent last season then, but IMO generally speaking he's always two minutes away from a howler. Just has that look about him. Reddy, Ivan, Kennedy, Velaphi all have that look, even when they're playing well.

yeah nah, you don't know what you're talking about. Last season he was immense, easily the best player at the club and kept us from coming last. I'll admit his recent form (coasties and heart games) has been uncharacteristically poor.

I don't blame you for not watching Jerk's games over the last couple of seasons but if you had you'd know how good he's been.

I'm sorry, he's always been crap. He is among the most inconsistent keepers in the league.

Cost Newy a point at least. If he's going to Germany, it might be for Oktoberfest.

Some absolute howlers tonight, he probably won't make a worse mistake in the rest of his career then the first goal.

It seems the training ground bust up really affected him

Hope the Germans weren't watching tonight

Hmm, Leverkusen's keeper has played every minute this season while their #2 hasn't made a senior appearance in a very long time. Could be legit.

I'll be intrigued to see where Taggart ends up, he seems to have the football brain to do well. Interest from Lazio, Everton and Schalke for Brillante sounds like a bit of agent wank.

This is true, but with the announcement of more losses for Tinkler it could be a cost cutting exercise when Finklers wages if under the cap could make further recruitment more difficult (depending on how much he's after).

He's a good player but not good enough to be paid marquee wages or to be considered as one. Marquee spots should be for high quality players who cannot fit in the salary cap, not solid players looking for a payrise

Langerak is a talent, but I think that any Aussie GK that is getting a solid run in a good Euro league should take the #2 spot.


Great, great, and horrible.


Really? I don't see Finkler as a marquee at all.

Very good player, but also not one that takes the game by the scruff of the neck on a regular or even semi-regular basis. He can usually represent a threat, mostly on the passing side of things, and may have more assists if MV had some better finishing.


When you've got Rogic and Troisi in there, and very little in CB and on the Wing (while Troisi can play there, largely been ineffective as a winger), then you have to make a cut somewhere. Kosta on the wing is better than Troisi, and apart from James the others would be Pain (better coming off the bench) and Nabbout (no thanks).

Troisi has shown that his best spot is through the middle of the park. Also, he helps with defensive pressure on the forward half (even though he does leave some to be desired) by just being faster than Rogic and Finkler.

I find that if MV struggle to keep the ball, Finkler and Rogic as the first line of defense can be passed a bit too easily as they aren't the quickest of players. Would hate to see what'd happen against Asian sides that are usually full of speedy/technically good players.

Marquee spot doesn't necessarily mean marquee wages.

i think you put too much emphasis on finkler's quality... he's good but jets shouldn't down sell themselves offering him marquee wages.

Just putting this out there - Dare I say is Finkler a little over-rated due to his flashes of brilliance, aka that late match winning free kick and cameos off the bench previous? But now that he's a regular in the first XI, featuring most of the last few games - I dare suggest that it seems his impact is not a great as some may've hoped and indeed, in terms of the wider team, the form of Victory has not been great recent times? So Finkler has not made a great difference there and indeed, previously, when he was on the comeback and a super-sub from the bench, Victory were still showing flickers of promise - but losing Nichols to the J-League was the big blow and not even Finkler has quite filled that void, well not in the same way? Evidentially they are different players/individuals, but again, full matches over a few starts or more in a row - and he's still a 'good quality' import, no doubt, but he may be not much more than that and certainly not a marquee or his form/lack of impact in a poor form side, at the moment wouldn't warrant it?

Edited by GloryPerth: 10/3/2014 11:37:58 PM

The blood actually makes him look less unattractive because it covers some of his ugly face.

Provides us with the reason we have hair :-"

Man Taylor Regan has the roughest head.

Apparently he isn't even better than Kosta Barbarouses.](*,) .

Was on the triple j news on the way home, wtf.

If taggart gets better at 1v1s with the keeper the rest of his game is already buli quality

mind u thats a pretty important part of his game

JB Sports2Business. Also same as Robbie Kruse, Ben Halloran, James Holland, Dario Vidosic, Mathew Leckie and Michael Beauchamp.

Based on that alone I'd say he's #gone.

Seems Tinkler lose's money with everything he does #-o

BTW: would be a good move for all, I was only thinking last week that Mark has really improved this season, well done boys.

If you want a marquee who brings in crowds on name alone then no, but if you want a marquee who will single handedly win you matches then I would say he's worth it.

Finkler is not marquee material at all, we'll end up overpaying him