After seeing Daggers and Yengi go overseas and basically kill it playing in a different position... I'm convinced most aussie coaches are clueless.. great club to go to as young player.

Yengi played as a striker at Adelaide and did well, it’s just that Rudan kept playing him out wide.

Does anyone remember Louis Khoury, the former Man City and Blackburn youth player?

He has signed for Nejmeh in Lebanon and I believe he is counted as a local player too.

Good find.  Yep remember he was highly regarded at Blackburn in their youth set-up.  Never worked out so he came back to Australia a few years back.  Still only 22.

I think he was with the Sutherlands Sharks in the NSW NPL this season.

He was

Melbourne City have signed Hamza Sakhi on loan from Auxerre with an option to buy.

He will become the first Moroccan to ever play in the A-League.

Yengi was always underrated.

I know there’s a salary cap but how does Melb City manage/afford to sign so many ‘high’ priced players?! Leckie, Jmac now Sakhi etc

So many exemptions these days, it's not that difficult.
2 x Marquee spots - can be paid any value the club chooses
1 x Designated spot - limited to 300-600k outside of the cap
They probably have some small loyalty exemptions (JMac, Good, Galloway, maybe more).
Wouldn't be surprised if they are utitlising the junior marquee exemption as well.
Like plenty of other clubs do, they probably just backload contracts to make it fit.

Cheers 👍

Grasshoppers Zürich seem pretty keen to loan in Mabil. 

That would be a great move for Mabil. It's about his peak level but also a good league. I'd like to see more Aussies in the Swiss league. I feel like Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands and Turkey have been good leagues for Aussies over the years. 

If Yengi keeps banging them in for Portsmouth he'd have to be a shout for a NT call up. There aren't too many in form number nines for Australia right now. 

Daggers was going well at Victory before he left. He just needed to be starting. He's been in and out of the Viking team but good to see him score. He was a number nine at Victory. What role is he playing at Viking? 

Im getting that sort of thinking with Aussie coaches too, watching Jonny Yull play so high as a No.10 for Adelaide was baffling given he wants to get on the ball as much as possible.

The reason he and Alagich played as a 10 was because Clough was unavailable and we had no one else to play there.

He played as a 10 more or less against Northcote and Clough was available ... 

And yet Clough was the most advanced of the three midfielders…

We didn’t play our usual double pivot against Northcote, probably because they are a mid-table NPL 2 team. There’s no doubt that if we were playing a stronger team, we would have and he would have partnered Isaias.

Absolutely dead on Watts, Rogic and Souttar chatter. Watts has got to find a club. Rogic is probably fishing or baking, no idea. Souttar's situation is annoying.

When's the transfer window close? 

Depends on League. Free agents can sign whenever I think.

Hopefully some decent players come into the a league now the WWC is over 

Part of me reckons Rogic will miss a full season of football and then sign for the new Canberra A-League team in 12 months time. 

Awer Mabil to Grasshoppers in Switzerland.  2 year deal with option for a 3rd.

Ahh Grasshopper, wax on, wax off!

My mate in Middlesbrough reckons Riley could be heading to Spain see what happens 

Anything but the bait and switch league. Still have no idea why Cadiz ever wanted with Mabil.

See what happens if his not in the team tonight I'll be worried 

Will Wilson has left Victory for CCM. I'm bummed as I wanted to see him play a lot this year for Victory. I think this is probably a good move if he's a starter at CCM. A real talent but very raw. CCM have a good development track record. Victory in recent years not so much.