Melbourne City need a LB , maybe Lowry could be a target, seems to be out of favour in England, not a good sign if you cat hold down a contract at millwall, what about Macdonald?

I think Spurs last game of the season would have cemented Gallifuoco not getting a new contract. In the game Bentelab, Veljkovic and Pritchard all featured. All three are younger and Bentelab and Veljkovic are in similar positions. Being being other youth players in a big side means you are unlikely to feature. Highly rated though and regularly trained with the first team. I wouldn't be surprised if a Championship side went in for him. Hopefully he will be playing first team football next season and it will be interesting to see if he will be playing CB or CDM.

Yeah, as Moofa too suggested - confusing as! Perhaps the local paper is wrong or... no idea really! Maybe he's on a certain deal, shorter term and this latest negotiation is an extension? Though the quote didn't suggest that.

Hughes declined to comment on claims that Skapetis has already joined Stoke from QPR in a £300,000 deal, but does anticipate the 19-year-old striker arriving to boost Stoke's development squad next season.

"We need to get more under-21 guys for next season," he explained, "because our development squad is currently looking a bit thin, so we need more numbers and more depth."

He said development coach Glynn Hodges, who worked with Skapetis at QPR, was the driving force behind the move.

He added: "Glynn has done really well behind the scenes in his first year with us here at Stoke.

"He's a really important link between me and the Academy, and a bridge to help young players try and make that transition from the development squad to the senior squad."

Decided to go through the EPL retained and released list for the Aussies in it.

Note: The offer contract players under Scholar all seem to be 18 so are finishing school and the club must either give them a contract or release them. The only exception is Taylor Tombides who has extended even though he is 18 but there are extreme circumstances in his case.

Contract Players
Herd Christopher
Lyden Jordan
Jedinak Mile
Burgess Cameron
Jones Brad
Smith Brad
Good Curtis
(o) Grant Alex - offer

Scholars
Strain Ryan
Strain Thomas - Offer Contract
Jones Gethin - Offer Contract
Adelson Jake - Offer Contract
Mells George
Kurasik Dominic
Beadling Thomas - Offer Contract
Tombides Taylor - Extended

Free Transfers
Schwarzer Mark
Fletcher Matthew
Gallifuoco Giancarlo

Missing - note that all three are Stoke players
Skapetis Peter - was transferred in January so kinda makes sense he is not on there as he is a new signing.
Makrillos Peter - Twitter profile still says he is at stoke and doesn't indicate anything has changed
Papas   Reece

(o) - Indicated Alex Grant was out of contract an received an offer. At 20 this is a good sign that they see him developing, as far as I can tell he hasn't re-signed yet.

Will be interesting if A-league clubs go for the free transfer players. They can obviously still get a contract offer from the club but it is an indication they will be released. I think Schwarzer will have had any talks delayed until after the champions league with Courtois still at Atletico Madrid. Gallifuoco will be interesting, consistanly in the spurs U21 side for awhile. An A-league club should give him a chance imo or he will probably go to a lower league in England. Matthew Fletcher I know nothing about other than he made the bench for one FA cup game.

Edited by moofa: 24/5/2014 07:23:54 PM

I think Spurs last game of the season would have cemented Gallifuoco not getting a new contract. In the game Bentelab, Veljkovic and Pritchard all featured. All three are younger and Bentelab and Veljkovic are in similar positions. Being being other youth players in a big side means you are unlikely to feature. Highly rated though and regularly trained with the first team. I wouldn't be surprised if a Championship side went in for him. Hopefully he will be playing first team football next season and it will be interesting to see if he will be playing CB or CDM.

Head coach Robbie Neilson and director of football Craig Levein want up to seven new signings to reinforce the squad. Players are being sought in all positions after Jamie MacDonald, Jamie Hamill, Dylan McGowan, Mark Ridgers and Callum Tapping were released, with Ryan Stevenson also keen to leave. McKay, pictured, advised anyone approached by Hearts to be ready to do battle in a fiercely competitive league where no quarter will be asked or given.

Dylan McGowan released from Hearts.



Strange situation there with Jamie MacDonald their players' and supporters' player of the year so these releases are obviously not just on players not being good enough. It will be interesting to see if he finds another SPL club to go to.

http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/sport/football/hearts/brad-mckay-hearts-can-t-afford-any-passengers-1-3419296

Which BVB players of the second team creates next year the breakthrough into the first team, which has not yet made a game for the first

132 Amini
110 Harder
109 Edison Yordanov
62 Ducksch
53 no
41 Bandowski
35 Tim Värynen
23 Maruoka
21 Alomerovic
19 Bajner
15 tim Treude
14 Marc Horn shoe; Güll
10 Bonman
8 Kefkir; David SOLGA; Julian Derstroff
7 Flores; Horn shoe; Nothnagel
6 Sarr; Meissner; no idea
4 Jeremy Dudziak
3 Nick Weber; Julian Schieber; Timme Thiele
2 Durm; Jürgen Klopp; Dominik Nothnagel
1 Kalle Grabowski; Placeholder; Tinga with its Dingda; hohmann; Bucket; Name is on my tongue; Uvda; günter; Bandowski, Harder; Oguzhan; Giro property; Tim Hohmann; Since when do we have a second team; Zimmermann; Evans Nyarko; 2; name; .; 2nd team; Ozbek; Bakalorz; Bonkamp; All; BVB; One of the not yet know it now; Florian Hübner; I; Mutz Mundel; Gerald Asimoah

From BvB Fan forum



http://www.bvb-forum.de/index.php?id=924063

Edited by moofa: 3/6/2014 12:55:14 PM

A lot of them want to see Amini which is good, i just hope the coaching staff i.e Klopp will give him a contract after that then a chance.

Primavera quarter final, Lazio v Roma. Ikonomidis on the bench.

Sensational. His recent form for Australia has been absolutely brilliant, so fingers crossed he gets a bit if a leg up this season.

over 50 000 euros for Leckie of the Fifa

From ULRIKA SICK BERGER and SEBASTIAN KAYSER
The Australian Mathew Leckie (23) is the first World Cup participants of FSV Frankfurt since Richard Hermann († 39), who was the German World Cup squad in 1954.
FSV boss Clemens Krüger (43) fingers crossed that Australia remains as long as possible in the competition: "For every day that Mathew is longer with us, we collect more money."
Such is the rule: For every day that a player at the World Cup is, the club gets $ 2800 (converted 2057 Euro). Projected is from the May 29
Does that mean that even if the Australians eliminated after the group stage, conceded the FSV 53482 euros. Should Australia to reach the final, it would even be 94622 euros. Kruger laughs: "I'm going to sit at the games with an Australian jersey front of the television."

Interesting article about FSV Frankfurt earching 50,000 euros for Leckie being in the World Cup. I am guessing it is a Bundesliga incentive



http://www.bild.de/sport/fussball/mathew-leckie/ueber-50000-von-der-fifa-36248810.bild.html

Payments for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™ shall be calculated as foliows:
The total number of players seleded for all the representative teams participating in the final competition
of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™ is 736 (i.e. 32 [representative teams] x 23 [players each]). On a
cumulative basis, the players will participate in the final competition ofthe 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™
for a total of approximately 24,500 days (i.e. starting two weeks before the opening match until the day
following the last match of the representative team in question).
The Distribution Amount (USD 70 million gross) is divided by the total number of days (24,500), which
results in a rounded amount per player per day of USD 2,800 (subjed to any taxes and dedudions).
The rounded amount of USD 2,800 is multiplied by the number of days each player is at the final
competition of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™, starting two weeks before the opening match until the
day following the last match of his representative team ("Total per Player"). It is not relevant whether or
not the player adually plays in any given match.

Bayern Munich supply most players to World Cup provisional squad lists
Published on Monday, 19 May 2014 00:47

May 19 - German giants Bayern Munich are the club providing most players to the provisional 2014 World Cup squad lists circulated by FIFA last week. The Bundesliga champions have 18 players on FIFA's release list, two more than Manchester United, who were comfortably the most heavily-represented Premier League club, despite their difficult 2013-14 season.

The squad lists are of more than academic interest to clubs, since they can be paid at a rate of $2,800 a day for players making the final 23-man squads.

In 2010, when the equivalent daily rate was only $1,600, Spain's Barcelona received the highest payment of $866,267, with Bayern second and Chelsea third. This time, it looks highly likely that the biggest payments will top $1 million.

Based on the FIFA release list of the mainly 30-man provisional squads for Brazil, and allotting players the club they are assigned to on this list, a total of 12 clubs provide 11 or more players. They are:

Bayern Munich (18), Manchester United (16), Barcelona (14), Juventus (13), Napoli (13), Real Madrid (13), Liverpool (12), Manchester City (12), Atlético Madrid (11), Chelsea (11), Internazionale (11) and Paris Saint-Germain (11).

The number of Manchester United personnel in the 32 final squads is highly likely to fall since, for example, it is already known that two of their England contingent - Michael Carrick and Tom Cleverley - are stand-by players. Squads must be cut to 23 by June 2.

Clubs located in the Big Five west European football economies (England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain) provided fractionally over half of the 950-plus players in provisional squads.

English clubs were most heavily represented, supplying 136 players from more than 30 clubs, the equivalent of almost six World Cup squads; German and Italian clubs also each supplied more than 100 provisional squad players.

Excluding the Big Five, countries whose clubs provided the most players were as follows: Russia (43), Mexico (36), Netherlands/Turkey (both 28), Portugal (27), USA (26) and Japan (25).

Clubs from host nation Brazil supplied just 18 players and Argentina only 10. Clubs from over 50 countries provided at least one player.

FIFA has set aside $70 million in all to make payments to the clubs of final squad players at Brazil 2014, up from $40 million in 2010.

Meanwhile, Celtic have appointed Ronny Deila as their new manager. I wonder how this will impact Rogic next season. Don't know much about him though apparently he likes to play quite an attacking brand

FORMATIONS - Inzaghi has to deal with the disqualification of Lombardi and Minala. In the attack chooses Tounkara and Oikonomidis. On the other hand Longo array trident formed by Aramu, Gyasi and Pardini.

Ikonomidis's Lazio youth side lost 3-4 in extra time to Torino in the Spring National Championships (translation) which is a national youth comp. He scored twice and the third was scored after his shot hit the post. Second goal a little strange with the defender trying to stop the ball with his hand but the ref called it a goal then gave him a yellow. I guess it is easy looking back but they probably would have preferred the penalty and a red card. Also pretty early in the video (2 minutes in maybe) they have the lineup and Ikonomidis is down as the left centre mid in 433

highlights here

[youtube]?v=X7uDMl6eAy0[/youtube]

EDIT: Formations in video may be wring according to this article.



http://www.corrieredellosport.it/calcio/serie_a/2014/06/07-364343/Primavera%3A+Lazio+fuori+con+il+Torino.+Ai+supplementari+%C3%A8+4-3!

Edited by moofa: 8/6/2014 02:29:29 PM

Any recent news on Zullo? Dave Bulthuis has signed for Nuremburg which opens up some room.