Thomas Deng is off to play in J1 - source

Fuck man. We only have doncs as the only fit senior cb.  Ffs

Literally crazy that he was allowed to go,  surely there must be someone coming in?

I've lost count of the amount of Aussie players that have flopped in Japan

“With only a couple of days left in the transfer window, we’re working hard to find a suitable replacement to fill the spot made available in our squad.”

Won't be holding my breath.

How many Australian CBs are available and are worth chasing? Spiranovic hasn't kicked a ball in seven months, although it would be good for his career to come full circle back to Victory.

this season is f'd so MV is cashing in the transfer fee

Obviously a fantasy, but loaning Dylan Ryan from Willem II would be terrific.

Knowing us we probably bring back ansell.  But he transfer to another kleague club

His contract was up at the end of the season, and he'd probably already told the club he was looking at going overseas, so at least we got a fee.

Only three days left in the transfer window, closes midnight Friday night, so I'm not holding my breath for a replacement.

I wonder if we can slip a brown paper bag to CCM and get Rowles on loan, he's eligible under FFA's system, but I'm not sure it has us in mind, obviously.

That would be too logical..
MV have any youth CBs?

"Flawed"

That's all well and good but considering where we are at the moment, i hope they had more notice than they are letting on and we have been seeking out a replacement for a while.

Isn't our window open for a week longer? Iirc we got makarounas in feb when our window opened then

Season is officially done now.
Hope we got a reasonable fee for him.

Ben Carrigan has been involved a bit lately but it's a lot on his plate this early in his career.

"The first registration period begins on July 24 and closes on October 15, 2019, while the second runs from January 3 to January 31, 2020.

Players can be signed and registered at any point until 11:59pm on the final day of these windows."

https://www.a-league.com.au/news/how-does-hyundai-a-league-transfer-window-work

Ah, he's 21 so shouldnt be too much an issue, rotating with Broxham and Donachie 

Hopefully he'll kick on, absolutely. He'll have his hands full in Japan tonight, he's starting.

...and that just happened!

One week until we have to finalise our list for the group stage.

Who goes for Rojas?

Do we risk bringing back Hoogland, or will he just be injured?

This could be our best ACL ever.

A confidence-building win at home against Chiangrai first, then we get our two hardest fixtures out of the way: Seoul away, then Beijing away. This timing could hardly be better as the Seoul game is almost two weeks before the K League starts, and Beijing will only be two weeks into their season.

If we can smash those then we only have two home games and Chiangrai away to deal with, if we play like we did today then I'd say we have a chance to finish first.

Round of 16 in May is now two-legged, we'd face the winner or runner up of group F, one of Ulsan, Shanghai Shenhua, FC Tokyo or Perth Glory. Hopefully we won't get too distracted by the A-League finals, but it is our chance to qualify for the 2021 ACL, to be fair. Our last group stage game (which is in between the first two finals games) is at home after we luckily get a bye for the last round of the regular season, and the Grand Final will be on 16/17 May while the Ro16 starts 26/27 May, so the fixture congestion is really not that bad at all this time.

Get through that and Carlos will have a chance to refresh the squad in the Australian offseason before the Quarter Finals starting in late August. It'll be deep into our criminally long offseason (although we should have two FFA Cup games under our belt by then) but Carlos will have had a chance to have made the team truly his own, if all has gone well.

Today changed everything.

How about that, looked to have a wonderful game.
Although 3 at the back, definitely need 1 or 2 more.

Definitely.

He will likely get another chance against Perth with Broxham suspended.

Why we probably agreed that if he got a good opportunity we wouldn't stop him moving. He was a loyal servant to the club and this is a great opportunity for him.

Seems like the Vuck are pretty good with not getting in the way of players chasing opportunities in other leagues...apart from the Milligan saga of course.

Provided we got a fair transfer fee I am happy.

I more meant I can't recall other situations where the player really wanted to go and we didn't make it work. It was fair enough to keep him and IIRC we ended up winning trophies that very season?