Leigh Broxham (with 5 year discount towards the salary cap) has to be the best deal in the A league.
Hope Raul and Troisi (preferably under the cap) stay.

whoops. i missed the consecutive years fine print. 


Broxy has triplets and needs every cent he can get. he's not worth anywhere near $200k as a player, but is probably getting it due to his loyalty and 50% being paid outside of the cap. 

If we go on and win a trophy from here, I can see the club offering JT another season as marquee. and he'll probably be keen to stay now that he has a baby on the way. 

I hope Raul stays as well, but I'm not sure of the details of his loan situation. 

Thought we had Honda for season 2?

-PB

One year deal, sadly.

I wonder if the option for Kosta's extra year is the club's, or his?

These sorts of things are usually part of the contract, so it would be a mutually agreed clause. A bit of a safety net for both the player and the club. I wouldn't be surprised if it prevents him from having discussions with other clubs until he has rejected the extension.

Also, not sure on the exact details of this particular contract, but overseas this clause is usually enacted by the club. So, if that is the case, MV can legally just extend the contract for another year whether Kosta wants to or not.

That's Ola. Ola is a 2 year/season deal.

So we get Hiroshima in our group, but only just with the Japanese club winning by one penalty in a shootout after 120 goalless minutes.

A slow start for Hiroshima isn't that surprising considering that their J League season doesn't start until this weekend, and is good news for Victory as our away game against them is on the second matchday on March 12th. Too soon to get away tickets to see Honda in Japan?

No Berisha in their squad, or Dangda for that matter, in fact their new Swedish signing was the only foreigner to start, and their Brazilian striker Patric was an 82nd minute sub.

Like Honda, Melbourne Victory’s marketing department had a nervy night, as the Japanese duel formed a key plank of the strategy and lure for securing the former AC Milan and CSKA Moscow ace to Australia.

Sanfrecce’s win could boost Victory’s coffers by in excess of $500,000 in sponsorship, merchandise and ticket sales, in addition to increased Asian brand exposure.

From the Davutovic this morning. Big windfall if we can attain some sizable sponsors for this campaign. 

Fittingly enough, the game against Sanfrecce could quite possibly be Keisuke's last for us. 

Hopefully we'll at least get into the Round of 16, which should fall inside his current contract and could well be against Kashima Antlers.

it will be interesting to see if Honda stays on next season. pretty sure the marquee fund is only paid for one season, so Victory would have to stump up all the cash. there is also incentive for Honda too with the Tokyo Olympics ambition and (hopefully) ACL knockout phase 

Seb Pasquali likely to come back to Aus to join Western Melbourne... heard it here first :)

Yeah hopefully with all his rehab he's done with us he's realised that Victory is the best place for him to be to stay in contention for Tokyo 2020, and we can get him on decent coin.

For real?

Seb hey...we could use another CB ;)

jeepers. What a monumentally poor decision to leave when he did if this ends up being true. 

Pretty reliable source, we'll see if it comes to fruition. Same source that's given me other Vuck transfer rumours that ended up being done deals.

Wonder if Pasquali's agent is Lou Sticca or if he had any role in his original transfer? 

Did some quick googling:

Michael Panopoulos negotiated Seb's move to Ajax and has links to Sticca/WMG.

When asked about how the transfer of Kone, the first official player of the new A-League side, Sticca says it was all a matter of good connections: “We were identifying players and looking in various markets. Then he was recommended to me by former South Melbourne player Michael Panopoulos.”

https://neoskosmos.com/en/129025/sticca-were-proud-to-have-kone-at-our-club/

There ya go! 
Panopoulos is definitely his agent BTW.

i would be pretty disappinted if that was true. these kids need to persist in europe

Fornoroli to MV next year. Heard it here first :)

It'll be interesting to see what position they play him in.

Zzzzzzzz Georg.

-PB

Battle for 2nd is seriously on now, both us and Sydney really need that week off.

Have people received their ACL passes yet? Swear I purchased it but haven't received anything. 

I'm in the same boat.

Thanks for that, was literally on hold with MV's membership department, but looks like she'll be right.

received mine weeks ago