Typical smugness from Arnold

Mauk signing has been announced: https://www.brisbaneroar.com.au/news/mauk-signs-long-term-deal

So far nothing on the Dane Tobias Mikkelsen doing his medical ?

@ miron Mercedes

For as long as I can remember Roar management have been conservative talking about signings, even to the point of saying “subject to medical”.

Mauk wasn’t announced until today and yet a week ago it was all over twitter, there were numerous press reports and even after his agent allowed Wikipedia to be updated to say Roar ... it’s marketing madness especially dropppng news like this out in SOO week lol.

Training is open so if Marco gave a damn he’d take his camera down there and photograph twenty one players running around and write up the +1 lol. But of course he doesn’t.

Are you heading out there this week at all Waz? Be great if we could get somebody who has seen Mikkelsen in the flesh give a report!

Mikkelson announced: https://www.brisbaneroar.com.au/news/danish-international-signs

Got bored and started looking up DMs on the transfer market.

Nice!

@ Mr B

Those two older ones look pretty good

I've heard Nigro and Alex Song are the two we are looking at getting in to finish the roster. Would fkn love both tbh.

Alex Song ... surely that’s made up wishful thinking?

Nigro, would be excellent

Song?

Pulling ya leg, mate.

He's off contract and looking for an adventure is the rumour. Has been playing in ice cold Russia. We are meant to be offering "marquee wages". Seems unrealistic but omg if it happened you would see me dropping by Bonds to pick up a few extra sets of underpants.

Had a look at the transfer market values of the three I looked at and compared them to Song.

Max Christiansen = 900k Pounds
Sebastian Eriksson = 1 mill Pounds
Eugen Polanski = 1.35 mill Pounds
Alex Song = 1.35 mill Pounds

Going by them figures it is not that far fetched, who knows. 


Also contracts expire soon for Xavi Torres at Perth Glory who is valued at 900k Pounds and Mark Milligan who is valued at 765k Pounds.

I wondered why Song never came up when I was looking, i was looking in the expiring contracts section, he was in the section with no clubs. 

Fingers crossed. He would be the best player in the league youd think. 220+ games for Arsenal, 60+ for Barca. Outside ADP he would have the best resume in HAL history. 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

Current BRFC 2018/19 squad

Goalkeepers: Brendan WHITE, Jamie YOUNG

Defenders: Daniel BOWLES, Luke DEVERE, Jack HINGERT, Dane INGHAM, Connor O’TOOLE, Avram PAPADOPOULOS, Jacob PEPPER

Midfielders: Joe CALETTI, Brett HOLMAN, Thomas KRISTENSEN, Matt MCKAY (c), Stefan MAUK

Attackers: Eric BAUTHEAC, Shannon BRADY, Nicholas D’AGOSTINO, HENRIQUE, Tobias MIKKELSEN, Adam TAGGART, Dylan WENZEL-HALLS

About $160,000 to Roar from the World Cup pool. It’s in a Herald Sun story locked behind a paywall. Total payments to HAL clubs of $1.54m

what is the criteria to get a payment ?

Roar squads average age now down to 26.71. Definitely need one more midfielder surely.

@ miron Mercedes

It’s something like 1/3rd goes to the club holding his current registration and the remaining 2/3rds goes to the clubs holding the players registration for the 2 years prior to the first match on a pro-rata basis. So Roar are basically getting money for Maclaren and a little for Petratos.

@ primtech

Definitely one more Midfielder. Nigro would be a good start plus hopefully this visa marquee DM that’s been mentioned.

A-LEAGUE clubs will reap a minimum $1.53 million World Cup windfall thanks to generous new compensation being paid by FIFA for Russia 2018 participants.

Melbourne City and Newcastle Jets are the biggest winners under a complex formula, that will land them $440,000 and $360,000 respectively.

Daniel Arzani’s meteoric rise has proven lucrative for City, who’ll net a staggering $300,000 after Bert van Marwijk picked him in the final 23-man squad.

It pays off their Arzani investment and then some, with City believed to have spent around $110,000 on the winger – his annual salary has been $47,000 per annum for the past two seasons. His wage rises to almost $140,000 next season.

City will also receive an unexpected $147,000 for Tim Cahill, with the “Club Benefits Programme”, which rewards World Cup players’ clubs of the past two years.

ARZANI: Roos win age-old battle of young guns

FINALISED: Every World Cup squad named

The Jets have benefited for van Marwijk’s faith in Dimi Petratos and Andrew Nabbout, netting $196,000 and $170,000 respectively.

It virtually covers the Jets’ costs, with Petratos and Nabbout – while he was at the club - earning $200,000 and $100,000 per season respectively.

When Nabbout’s $500,000 transfer is factored in they’ve made a handsome profit, while Japanese club Urawa Red Diamonds will get an instant $120,000 return on their Nabbout investment.

Sydney FC will receive $253,000 for Matt Jurman ($155,000) and Danny Vukovic ($98,000) while Josh Risdon’s switch to Western Sydney has netted the Wanderers $196,000 – similar to their hitherto outlay for the right-back.

Despite not having a player at the World Cup, Brisbane Roar are set for a $159,000 boon via former attackers Jamie Maclaren ($98,000) and Petratos ($61,000).

Melbourne Victory missed out a $270,000-plus bonanza when James Troisi missed the cut, but they’ll still bank $47,000 thanks to former players Mark Milligan ($41,000).

Perth Glory’s role in Risdon’s international emergence will be rewarded with a handsome $100,000 cheque.

Overseas clubs will mainly benefit from the Socceroos’ qualification, with Celtic (Tom Rogic), Bursaspor (Aziz Behich), Luzern (Tomi Juric), Feyenoord (Brad Jones) and QPR (Massimo Luongo) receiving the full $300,000 whack for their players as they’ve been there for the past two years.

Mile Jedinak (Aston Villa) and Milos Degenek (Yokohama F Marinos) will bank their clubs in excess of $250,000.

The total distributions will rise if the Socceroos can advance to the knockout phase, with $11,270 (US$8530) on offer for each player’ club(s) for every extra day they compete at the World Cup beyond the group phase.

The initial “total per player” amount is multiplied by the number of days each player is at the World Cup, starting two weeks before their opening game.

FIFA’s US$209 million total distribution has risen substantially from Brazil 2014 (US$70m) and South Africa 2010 (US$40m), when it was introduced.

RUSSIAN CASH BONANZA

A-League clubs’ rewards for World Cup players

1. Melbourne City = $440,000

Daniel Arzani $293,000

Tim Cahill $147,000

2. Newcastle Jets = $360,400

Dimi Petratos $195,400

Andrew Nabbout $171,000

3. Sydney FC = $253,000

Matt Jurman $155,000

Danny Vukovic $98,000

4. Western Sydney = $196,000

Josh Risdon $196,000

5. Brisbane Roar = $159,000

Jamie Maclaren $98,000

Dimi Petratos $61,000

6. Perth Glory = $98,000

Josh Risdon $98,000

7. Melbourne Victory = $41,000

Mark Milligan $41,000

TOTAL = $1.53 million

# Based of FIFA formula that rewards World Cup players’ clubs of the past two years.

https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/football/world-cup/aleague-clubs-who-field-players-at-world-cup-to-land-153-million-in-new-fifa-compensation-system/news-story/310ef655edb6c410dcc543f668da0f05

CFG are literally laughing to the bank - costing them very little to run Melbourne City with those sort of financial rewards.

Thanks Jlm

That’s s novd little cash injection for several clubs

If we were to pick up a foreign DM, it wouldn't surprise me if we left our last squad spot open to sign a visa player. This would obviously depend on how much cap space we have left, however. It has been shown that the clubs that do well in the league, make very good use of their visa spots (and use all of them). 

Visa players for Roar looking okay:

Bautheac - proven and very promising

TK - proven albeit suspicions on fitness

Mikkelsen - unproven but looks okay

2 slots open?

Definitely looking good so far. The usual thinking is that your visa players should be your best players and default starting XI players. If we only have 4 out of 5 spots filled, it seems like we are missing out. 

@ Mello-d

Roar have often run with just four visa players. The trick
is to look and see who in the starting XI that’s Australian could equally be a visa player - for me that’s Avraam and Mauk and Taggart who will all be on big wages.

Visa spots taken up last season by clubs.



Going by top 6 finishing order

Sydney - 4 spots taken
Jets - 4 spots taken
City - 4 spots taken
Victory - 4 spots taken
Adelaide - 5 spots taken
Brisbane - 4 spots taken

I think it really comes down to the quality of the imports more so than using them all up, but I guess many factors do come into play etc chemistry, age, injuries