Nigro back

Out of the blue too. Wish we could've done another video. 

Three year deal, good business.

Poppa like playing 3 at the back so, where is Nigro going to play? I know, off the bench.

 He can play at wing back . We also got Davidson 

Nigro on the right, Davidson on the left.

Geria plays on the right side of a back three like he did at Perth.

Forgot about geria lol.

Nigro was a shame to see go so this is good.

Always thought Jordan Brown was going to be good. Just vanished 

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/football/melbourne-victory-raising-7m-as-covid-hits-finances/news-story/d14b7861a6cca51cf2a023b32e7cd417

Melbourne Victory raising $7m as Covid hits finances

A-League club Melbourne Victory is trying to raise almost $7m from shareholders to shore up a balance sheet wrecked up two Covid-hit seasons and poor on-field performances.

Victory this week lodged a prospectus with the corporate regulator that both reveals the rights offer raising and the havoc the pandemic has wreaked on what has long been considered the A-League’s strongest club in financial terms.

After years of being one of the few sports clubs in Australia to post regular profits, Victory has made net losses of about $5.6m in the last three years, the document reveals.

In that time, Victory’s revenue has slumped nearly $9m from about $23.4m in the 2019 financial year, which covered the 2018/19 season in which Victory finished third, to $14.2m for the just completed competition that featured cross-town rivals Melbourne City winning the grand final while Victory finished last.

Victory has since hired star coach Tony Popovic and football director John Didulica, while completely overhauling its coaching staff, administration and playing squad.

But the pandemic combined with last season’s poor performance had fans staying away in droves for most home matches, put pressure on Victory’s finances. It also, along with all the other A-League clubs, had to deal with a halving of the value of the last season of the competition’s broadcast deal with Fox Sports.

The Victory fundraising is being undertaken at $1.25 per share for the privately-held club, which gives Victory a valuation of about $17.6m. But an independent experts report by RSM Corporate Australia inserted in the prospectus pegs the likely value of Victory now at about $15m given its financial struggles of recent years.

“The emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic has materially and adversely affected the club’s financial position,” Victory chairman Anthony Di Pietro writes in the prospectus, which outlines that most of the money will be used for working capital requirements.

“A key purpose of the rights offer is to try to overcome the financial detriment resulting from the … pandemic, among other things, by providing the club with working capital to better support the club’s strategic ambitions and initiatives.”

The offer is being undertaken via a 4-for-11 pro rata non-renounceable rights offer to existing Victory shareholders, opening on Thursday and runs to August 12.

Victory’s major shareholder Mario Biasin, the owner of home builder Metricon, has indicated he will take up his rights offer in a move that combined with others on the board will mean Victory raises at least $3m.

But it remains to be seen if former director and chief executive Richard Wilson takes up his rights in the raising. Wilson is trying to sell his stake of about nine per cent in the club and has offered the shares to the general public at $2.20 per share, which gives an implied value of about $30.9m to the club.

The club also issues shares at a value of $32m in 2019, but RSM Corporate Australia has estimated Victory’s value at half that figure now given its poor financial results since.

But Victory’s board says the A-League’s overall financial situation is improving given it has signed a new five-year $200m broadcast deal with Network 10 and the prospect of an investment of up to $100m by private equity.

Ikon is in boys!

Another cracker announcement video too :laugh:

Yeah that was awesome.love the absolute pisstake they have done 

It's a strange feeling all these announcements before the season starts

Yeah we usually don't mention anything until a couple of weeks out before the season 

it definitely makes for a pleasant change

Oh my that was fantastic.

Haven't had a good look at the squad but, we'd need another central defender, spira had injury issues and the long stint out will both hinder and help that. Definitely a striker,  I'm expecting something pretty solid but can't just be Besart surely?
Ikon, Folami, Kruse and essentially a new player in Rojas is good.  Plus Elvis.
Brillante and Brimmer.
Brox to fill in wherever. 
We probably need a keeper, I don't trust Acton but I feel there won't be a change and willing to give him another go as last season was a nightmare. 

So happy with how things are going,  but don't really want anymore perth players. 

FMD, you are hoping Kruse will actually play? 

He'll be an impact player at best.  

Most likely a super sub, but I'm giving the highest quality currently signed XI here.

With four free visa slots and a bunch of very promising youth (apparently Popa rates Kirdar) the sky is the limit.

cant see brimmer or nigro starting 

my guess would be 

As a neutral I'm hoping for a strong MV this season and it sure looks like that's the case. 

 I was giving my current signed XI, to highlight how much more we can bring with so many visa slots free and most likely more than half of the cap. Perhaps I should have made that more clear when I posted originally.

I love playing tactics lol. Using what we currently have:-

-----------Acton------------
Geria--Spira--Brox--Davidson
----Brillante----Brimmer----
Kruse-------Ikon------Rojas
------------Folami----------



------------Acton------------
----Geria--Spira--Davidson--
Nigro----------------------Rojas
------Brillante---Brox-------
---Kruse-----------Ikon-----
-----------Folami-----------



-------------Acton-------------
-Anderson--Spira--Broxinho-
Geria------------------Davidson
------Brillante--Brimmer-----
---Rojas--------------Ikon---
------------Kruse-----------


I'd be looking for a Striker, a CB and a GK import.

Rumour is Victory have a visa CB in quarantine right now.

I hope it's an mdp type  and not a ubay  or shotton type 

Hope so. We should have plenty of cap space, and it seems the two full marquee spots.

Remember mdp was under the cap.  

Genuinely intrigued by who else Popa will bring to the club tbh. I remember his final season at Perth he considered signing a Croatian goalkeeper, and with Acton being one of your weak links atm [not to mention you have 4 visa spots] it wouldn't surprise me if he sought out a foreign GK.

There is absolutely zero chance that Rojas would be a competent LWB. He'd be fine going forward, but in a defensive sense: a total liability. It would've been interesting to see Traore under Popa tbh, but a clean break was probably best for him and the club too.