you can see muscat likes defenders and DM's who will follow muscat like "instructions" without question (if you know what I mean).  baro seemed the sort guy who fits this this mold along with broxham, donachie and to an extent valeri . williams however......it will be interesting how he fits into all this 

His body will remain fit.

Don't be too sure about the rest of him.

apart form Baro, i don't see any surprises in there. and I am glad we are not satisfied with finishing second and continue to try improve our squad. we would have large chunks of our salary cap freed up now. 

Be interesting to see how Deng's game has improved training with PSV.

Reading the released players i can only assume Kev is putting his faith in Donachie and Deng partnering Williams next season which would probably be ok for you blokes IF Williams stays fit

No denying del pierre was a class above baro but baro was a class above most foreign cb in the league.  We could've kept him and concentrated on the fb and so but kev has done well hopefully he does well considering this has been our biggest clean out since i can remember. 

I wasn't thinking that Williams would play CB, DM if we sign him (most of his good play has been up the other half of the park, still not madly interested but he's decent for an Aussie option). Deng just takes Ansell's spot competing against Donachie for the second CB role. We still have nominally Troisi's wage, FBK's wage, Georgievski's wage and Baro's wage to spend, would hope that a significant chunk of that would go to a CB in the Delpierre mould (Baro got shit done, Delpierre did the same but also ensured so did the people around him). Kev is two for two for foreign defenders now, so I trust him to get that half of the pitch right.

Yeh and bringing in another visa centre back will be another gamble 

 Exactly. Baro may have been just "very good without being great" but that's essentially what you need.  A cb that just gets the shit done, baro and donachie with a partnership of valeri williams or nigro in front wouldve been a good base. 

Williams and Deng won't achieve that 

Baro was very good without being great. We've got more room to improve in our defence than our attack and we should be looking to get players in who can help us push our goals conceded down to under a goal a game. Retaining Troisi and bringing in a better dm to partner Valeri along with a new Centre half should be the priority. Thank god Bozanic is gone to make that possible. 

Baro presumably would've been on big coin replacing Del Pierre.
Maybe Kev already has a replacement in mind which is why the Baro situation has been kept under wraps.

Agreed. 

Baro made Victory look like a different team. When he was out of that clash against us in March Victory were all over the place defensively. In the games he played, Victory were arguable the better side.

I'm the other way. Really disappointed. He was great and his experience is essential. Deng is still young and has a long way to go going on last time he played. Williams would be far better as a DM and should be splitting the season with valeri and nigro in those two positions. We can't really on any injury prone williams to get through the whole season

Shame to see Baro leave, but I kind of see the sense in not using a foreign spot on a CB when we have Williams(?)/Donachie and Deng. 

Baro confirming he wanted to stay on twitter. :(

$$$

Still can't believe they let Georgevski go to the jets, or that he'd want to essentially move down a notch. 

Yep, people might not have realised Victory's station in world football, but loaning players to a team like PSV and not the other way around speaks volumes.

Will get a heap of pre-season action and then never get a start in normal season rofl.

I really can't see the harm in chucking him in @ DM with Valeri, sink or swim stuff.

Could be the next yoof star.

-PB

To be fair he showed a lot of promise 

I'm interested to see where Ansell goes. I think I heard rumours on Adelaide United.

Sad to see most of them go

cap him

This is comfirmed
Some known players in the list there. Intresting

Was going to say I hope PSV loan back Deng. But he's actually on loan at Jong PSV for the year and he doesn't seem to have worked out.
So I guess we can expect him back in the a-league

Nigro has to be integrated into the starting XI or I'll lose my sh1t @ MusKRat again

A purge has been long overdue. 

To be fair, the only team that did was Sydney by a long way, hopefully more teams get it together next season.

Whilst we were very close to snatching the win in the grand final, we really didn't look like a championship winning team through the year. Sad about Baro, but we need a really big rebuild and bring in some quality to try become the best team again. 

FBK's first season was class so maybe he just needs a change to re-find form. Or maybe is drop off is due to age idk.

Will be interesting to see if Roar go after him to replace Broich. 

As longas it is under the cap and with a higher cap next year, we should be able to get Troisi under the cap.  If not we must let him go imo, a true marquee isn't going to hit the moon with every attempt at goal.