He has never realised his potential and i would think he is unlikely to ever do so. His career choices have really been poor from a playing perspective. Im sure his bank account is quite healthy though

Its really disappointing that our players want to get to the top without doing the hard yards, comparing behich and sains, sains has moved around chasing money in China, the loan to inter which granted was probably in his control (who would turn it down though) struggled in holland both times with injury etc.

Behich got to Turkey worked hard, locked down a spot and even without the connections with socceroos may have been ready for the step up regardless,  difference being is when it was clear he wasn't going to get the game time, he's moved on,  still up from where was previously in Turkey but hes pushing for game time. He has had good advice on his moves and hopefully he will have a great year,  i foresee sains sitting on the bench and getting pushed off that for other players. 

Very true. 
Hopefully timotheu kicks on and nudges sainsbury to do better. 

What's Giannou done lately? Is he still not scoring in Cyprus? 

Sainsbury maybe oughta even get a loan to another Eredivisie club like PEC Zwolle where he started out in Europe. 

There's definitely some other players coming through in the centre of defense so if he's not playing he will more than likely lose his spot for the Socceroos.

7 goals and 4 assists from 36 games last season. Some were in Europe. It was OK. I just feel he was a real shining light at the Asian Cup for the minimal time he got. Leckie was offside but everyone kept playing naturally when he scored against UAE. It was well taken. 

Sainsbury has made some poor choices. Nevertheless the China one was to send his dad into retirement and that's OK. The loan to Inter was decent for his football education but I wish he'd pushed to play some minutes for the reserves at least for match fitness. The Grasshoppers time got him minutes but I wish he'd left China 6 months before that for any club where minutes were essentially guaranteed.

PSV was incredibly frustrating. A decent world cup and they did everything to get him and then just tied him down and kept him out. Of course never change a winning team but ffs they were up by 3 or 4 many times. Let him play centre mid or right back for half an hour!

He's now got a child and his father in law is his coach. The last 12 months prove he hasn't been enjoying his football and he's been enjoying other life's pleasures. Hopefully this pre season can be solid and he can get a start and keep it. 

Good thing you’re not a football manager. Professional clubs don’t just play certain players for the sake of playing them. 

actually they do

Indeed, a player should earn their minutes via decent training. However, there are a number of players who get minutes for a multitude of reasons other than a decent week on the training pitch. In Sainsbury's case he was thoroughly scouted and wanted by PSV and I'm honestly surprised he didn't feature more from the bench when they were many goals ahead against minnows. 

Ex-Jets midfielder Mitch Cooper has been called up for Vanuatu.

Do any NPLV watchers think he’ll get another gig in the HAL?

Not any time soon. Hasn't really been that great in all honesty. Shows little glimpses but not consistent enough.

Thanks for the insight.

It sucks that he hasn’t kicked on.

yeah, his position has been taken by former Melbourne City striker Marko Delic who scored an absolute pearler for Hume City in their Dockerty cup win tonight

Riley Warland has returned to Perth Glory apparently on LOAN from Fulham. He is on the bench for their game tonight against Bayswater. 

Milos Degenek on the way out of Al-Hilal, being replaced by Korean Jang Hyun-soo, from FC Tokyo. From Twitter

And according to this is heading back to Belgrade:

https://www.telegraf.rs/sport/fudbal/3080285-arapi-tvrde-milos-degenek-se-vraca-u-zvezdu

Celtic won 3:1 with neither Aussie on the bench despite both reportedly travelling. 

It's most likely a misunderstanding based on a tweet. Degenek simply wished Red Star good luck before their Champions League game. He said something like "good luck Star, may we all experience the good times again". Which the Serbian media took as a hint that he's coming back. I'd wait for something more official. 

he is highly rated though and would.make a good successor to Jedinak.. hopefully he gets a few starts this season in the championship.

yeah exactly...Behich made a name for himself and rightly so when he becomes available he gets a move back there to a good league he enjoys playing in it looks like. 

Yaaa even though it was great for Arzani to be included in the squad I didn't think he was ever a chance of getting minutes. It's great that his recovery seems to be progressing well though..it's been around 8 months now since his injury hasn't it? So he's not too far off obviously, probably a month or so if they take it cautiously.

Red Star post on social media about him still. He's very well thought of by them and supporters.

his transfer pretty much covered their wages for the year didnt it. i remember him saying that the transfer was good for the club and that was a big part of his decision to take it.

1:0 through Taggart on 6! Fantastic 

Taggart scores his second on 46! 3:1

How good!

Video highlights here:
https://www.facebook.com/SuwonSamsungFC/

Mistake from the defender for the second goal, but what a volley

https://www.facebook.com/SuwonSamsungFC/videos/608955252962453/
https://www.facebook.com/SuwonSamsungFC/videos/654094861733001/

K-League All Stars play Juventus on the 27th. He might get a run.

I think that’s Taggart with the assist for the second too.

The Koreans must think he’s unbelievable and we’re like “Yeah, nah, he was ok in our league, never really a chance to get game time for the Socceroos”.