LOL

no they wont.

didnt work out for kruse, holland, troisi, mitchell, vidosic, griffiths, and thwaite.  their "money bag" chinese clubs either didnt pay them or refused to pay them and the PFA had to step in to get some payments made. it might be the case that kruse and holland didnt get a cent of what was owed to them.  

and what happens to these dodgy clubs? nothing.

In the past two years alone, the PFA has had to secure $AUD 2.7 million for players that Chinese clubs had initially refused to pay
https://www.foxsports.com.au/football/socceroos/robbie-kruse-james-holland-china-contracts-pfa-reveals-staggering-money-owed-to-australians/news-story/b5460839d341369221069a01395d5f88

And even if their bank balances have benefited, at the end of the day if their careers are completely stuffed or at best set back 3-5 years, what is the bloody point? Is the ONLY reason to be a professional footballer to earn money? Surely not.

why do you go to work?

I'm not a professional footballer, but even in my current profession I get satisfaction that isn't purely derived from getting paid every fortnight. And I've turned down higher paying jobs for ones that i get greater satisfaction out of. So I don't really see your point Bundoora Brah. Do you think all our best players should just go and play in the UAE and China so they can get paid as much as possible?

Agreed mate, when you're a kid in the back yard kicking a ball, do you think of getting paid? No. 

He was already at the club in the youth setup but Luca Da Silva has signed his first contract with Willem II. He is expected to play with Jong Willem II this season.

http://www.willem-ii.nl/Willem-II/Nieuws/2017/07/19/DaSilva.aspx

According to the Mirror, Irvine - who was the club's record signing until this summer's successful move for Liam Boyce - is a £1 million target for the recently-promoted Seagulls ahead of their debut campaign in the Premier League.

But despite the Australian international being linked with several top-flight and Championship clubs since the turn of the year, we understand Albion have received no such offer from Brighton at this stage.


http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/latest-brighton-bid-burton-albion-158729

Virtus Entella has brought in a right back on loan from Roma. This porbably means we will see Cleur go out on loan.

http://www.entella.it/stagione/news/item/1405-colpo-per-la-difesa-arriva-de-santis-dalla-roma.html

do you know much about gabriel cleur?  has he had any game time with virtus entella? his wiki has him down for 1 game in the serie b last season.

True but a footballer only has a 10-15 year career compared to 40+ for most people. 

Not specifics but Entella youth did really well last season making the final of the cup and 3rd in the league league 3 points above Roma. Serie A and B sides are in the same youth comps split into groups. His involvement with the first team show promise but as armenakas said there is a large gap in Italy. He came back to Australia in the break and was doing sprint training with someone on the forum. I think he said that Cleur had offers from Serie C promising to play him.
 

His youth coach got promoted to the first team job and brought Cleur on for the final game of the season. Before that he had been on the bench a few times and was doing really well in the youth team. His youth coach seemed to really like him. I'm not sure if the coach has stayed the same, however, if it has, he could potentially get a go. Otherwise, I'd love to see him loaned to a smaller Serie B team or even Belgian division 2, like Armenakas. He could be a real wildcard for the World Cup with a season of senior football behind him. He apparently progressed really quickly over a short period of time. Regardless, he needs senior football now.

Add Nottingham Forest to the list of clubs (Brighton, Swansea, Derby, Aston Villa, Fulham, Sheffield Wednesday) said to be monitoring Jackson Irvine. This might indicate that Forest have dropped their rumoured pursuit of Luongo.

got a source?

Just querying - Any word on George Mells? Last I read he's still trialling with Fortuna Sittard in the Netherlands:

https://www.fourfourtwo.com.au/news/mells-on-trial-with-dutch-club-467564 - I guess he's on-trial there for a while, it's been a couple weeks now, so  hopefully it's working out for him:

https://twitter.com/GeorgeMellsJnr/status/886515815134244865

Jul 16        "Amigo ... training completed big game VS Besiktas tonight! "


And wondering if there's any word on Steve Kuzmanovski? Bright talent, saw a longer term injury during the latter period of his time at City and was released by the club in May:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BTivX4Oh73X/?taken-by=kuziofficial



I wonder if anyone can ask him on Twitter?

https://twitter.com/kuziofficial?lang=en


If both find the right club at the right league level and build up their conditioning, they could still push for Gombau's Olyroos squads in the coming season or two.

'40+ for most people' is a unfortunately becoming an outmoded concept these days. More than less will have more than one career over their working-life, even several as people have to operate in a less stable, certain and more flexible world of employment. Re-training or re-skilling is part-in-parcel of this. With some areas of work like Mining/Resources, it may be not unlike a professional sports-person; where you work relatively short-term, shorter-term periods, hard and intensive work for a higher-rate of pay, but less job security and depending on qualifications or lack of, less permanent or stable employment, longer term. No longer can you come out with a Graduate degree and expect to slide into a career that will take you into retirement. And the retirement age has been pushed back ever further too, as we live longer and with an aging population, have the threat of a shrinking tax base. Sorry to get off-topic.

http://www.nottinghampost.com/sport/football/transfer-news/nottingham-forest-monitoring-burton-albion-224681

cheers :)

would be cheaper than luongo.  also they would want a good deal on the table to pull luongo away from london.  

great find. is that official then?

:crying:

and it's official (unless you are troisi, then this means nothing..)

From Twitter: Jackson Irvine will snub #NFFC in a move he sees as "sideways" after last seasons achievements. He will likely stay at the Pirelli

https://twitter.com/EFL72Rumour/status/888338020830773248

Alusine Fofanah just signed for Kusadasispor in the Turkish Regional Amature League... it's a bunch of different leagues which make up the 5th tier of Turkish football...
From ACL winner to Turkish oblivion is quite a fall from grace. He was touted as a huge prospect, but never really kicked on. He's still young though.
Anyway, good luck to him.
(Source was his Instagram)

Interesting i wonder where he plays? He will join Dylan Ryan (16) who is a defender

there is nothing on his twitter 
https://twitter.com/alusine_fofanah?lang=en

do you have a link?

Liam Youlley - Maritzburg United (South Africa)

this probably deserves to be in this thread :)

His account must be private. I have screenshot the image, but I don't know how to upload it.... How do I upload an image on the computer? :blink:

this is probably the easiest way http://tinypic.com/