http://www.news.com.au/sport/football/marquee-star-will-be-the-perfect-tonic-for-adelaide-united/story-fndm8jzo-1226799315420

Val did write this article thought so probs load of crap.

Adelaide like all smaller city and area clubs should concentrate on being parochial and having local players in the team. Even if they got someone they would not get as big a crowd boost as a bigger city and even if they did HIndmarsh has not get the capacity or corporate facilities to exploit it. They are yet another club which is an example of a club being used to get government expansion money for a ground this time the Adelaide oval and its not like they have a chance of using it regularly during the season either.

Will it be Luca$h Neill?

lol 20 million on a marquee or 20 million on a quality Academy...

Not sure how much City spent for their Academy, but it would be better spent by far (whether the article is BS or not).

Edited by ryan2008: 11/1/2014 11:29:56 AM

This article is bullshit. It's just Val drumming up support for agent Lou Sticca.

It's built upon one 'whisper' the club is 'targeting' a "$20 million marquee".

#Facts

The $20 million is more likely to refer to how much the club could make off the back of whatever marquee this is, through increased ticket and merch sales.

Edited by macktheknife: 11/1/2014 11:41:25 AM

I doubt that. Sydney have said that they won't make a financial return on ADP. So this marquee would bring in 5x as much as ADP? [-(

Well the alternative is that Adelaide United are going to pay a player as much as Ronaldo or Messi get.

How about taking $5m-$10m of that and going to the state government to ask for a $100m redevelopment at Hindmarsh.
It's a great place, but it desperately needs a facelift! The team is doing fine at the moment, no need to spend megabucks on it.

Adelaide are just…. not very ambitious… #PISSANTTOWN

The price tag would probably be referring to the player's transfer fee five to ten years ago.

Agreed and even look at Perth, who DO have a 'bit more room to grow' in a relative sense, Gallas hasn't made much of a difference and it's not much of a surprise in hindsight. Again, his being on the pitch doesn't matter so much, even when he made his debut, the crowd did not see a significant increase to see it. Given, he's a defender and not ADP or even Heskey - that could be a contributing factor, but none the less it helps reflects like your point. These sorts of markets, it's not the 'bang for buck' - it's the likes of Sydney FC, Heart and perhaps even Roar, where a big name could really make a measurable impact on attendance numbers!

It's those strategic markets where the investment is worthwhile and pretty much elsewhere should be focussed on good football, communal engagement and for most clubs, just keep doing what they're doing well. And with that, Roar really don't need a big name marquee in a way, given the culture they are building, including steadily increasing attendances with a growing base. That's built on an attractive and winning football team/culture and the punters are slowly starting to learn, be engaged by, the attractive proposition, football team, that A-League standard bearers Roar, are.

The Foxsports pundits also said something interesting - AU fans are 'informed' fans and that reflects to our points. So too would be Roar's growing base, as too Perth's core crowd etc... Many are medium, longer term fans and fans from within the football community or have some association with the game. And the actual ones new to the code, I presume, immerse in it fast, like the Wanderers experience. So that base of 8-10k at Adelaide United, they know their stuff, they aren't mugs or fickle punters - they've been there through the ACL highs, through the GF trashing to Victory/Archie, Viddie's pissant thingo, Kossie's departures, both of them etc... AU, like Glory, were around pre-A-League too and so may be some of their fans.

AU and Glory are not SFC and it's market and different strokes for different folks. There's definitely something to what you say. Both our states have a tradition of parochialism too, in other codes etc... And when our clubs have been at their best supported, both teams had a core of 'local heroes', often 'Prodigal Sons' even, the likes of Travis Dodd, Carl Veart, Lucas Pantelis, Angelo Costanzo, Richie Alagich, Ross Aloisi, Iain Fyfe, hometown hero/legend Aurelio Vidmar about the club etc... and at Glory, Bobby Despotovski, Jason Petkovic, Jamie Harnwell, Scott Miller, Gareth Naven, Ali Edwards etc...

That's actually what both Glory and AU are seeking to do, rebuild, in their own ways - via a tumultuous time doing so at Glory, to via Gombau's own Barca inspired revolution bringing through Malik, Mabil, Elsey and others coming through. Both teams are re-building their locally inspired cultures and they aren't there yet, but hopefully these young boys coming through with both sides help form a strong nucleus of half a dozen or more to help rival the golden eras of both clubs - a New Generation of Travis Dodds, Carl Vearts, Bobby Despotovskis and Jamie Harnwells!

news.com.au as a source?

uwot?

-PB

Think are spot on here.

Bingo, I suspect.

Essien?

Poor PB does not realize

its ok PB :lol:

I know Val wrote it, ofc it's bound to be a steamy turd.

Your point?

Seeing as mine still stands?

-PB