Coyne and Sterjovski are a possibility though so Chipperfield, not all three. Lets hope that Pim suggests coming to the A-League for Coyne cause he's playing League 1, about the same quality. It did wonders for Craig Moore.

Yay, we have Sukic signed up with the senior squad, Scott Neville aswell?

I'd wish Pim would hurry up and push Coyney over the line, that is, the line to sign with us! These articles make me worry lol.

If we get Coyne, then it's onto that quality overseas player or two. I think if we somehow got Mile Sterjovski aswell then that would be almost too good to be true. Though I think it could be true, as we may well have the cap space AND have the Marquee spot free. Mile could be alongside Dadi as our 2nd striker. And we're still a Visa player or two short ofcourse and that left side is screaming for some class out there, LB/LWB that is. In concert with that need, I have not heard or seen anything about Sekulovski re-signing with us either, so along with Rizzo's departure, this could indicate we have some serious options/replacements lined up! 8) We also need a decent striker for depth, on top of Mile, especially as Mile could just aswell play Wide Right for us (With Pellegrino in the middle). :o So ontop of Coyne, hopefully Stejovski + a good left sided defender, perhaps a Visa player (Cassio-esque) and maybe a half decent striker for the rotation. The return of the Mrdja? :D Guy is such a gun, just back from injury for Mariners and he still scores in losing final couple weeks ago. He scored as many goals this season (3) as McCallister (4), but played far fewer games/minutes on the field (Mrdja 541 mins to McCallister 1354 mins). And that's also a better goal/mins/atts ratio than Sasho Petrovski. Though I'm sure we all know how good he can be. Injuries or not, let's bring him home. :)

Coyne,
Sterjovski
+
Mrdja
AND
Roberto Carlos (Marquee) - his 2 year contract with Fenerbahce is up end of this season, though he has a 1 year option. lol

lol

We could always try Celestine Babayaro as a 'project' but we saw what happened when the Jets tried that with Jardel lol and Babayaro already had false start with LA Galaxy, last year.

Seriously, I'm sure Mitch will find some one, not necessarily of profile. Hopefully Sagey sends him off to South America, Asia or somewhere, to scout.

Edited by gloryperth: 27/2/2009 10:36:02 PM

I wouldn't take Mrdja - sure, some good memories but we've just endured other glass footballers like Foxe, Trinidad, Tarka etc. If we want any chance of making the finals, we have to have a fully fit squad of players who will push for selection. TS was average this year because with Foxe and Tarka injured, the Djulbic mind-snap there was no-one fighting for his spot.

Mitch will not want any passengers.

We've signed Neville and Sekulovski again as well.
heard were chasing birmingham and former EPL striker Kevin Phillips.
hes 35 and possibly over the hill but i trust Dave that hes still good.
so that would rule out Mrdja.

kevin phillips for real? well ever since dadi proved that age was no factor i trust mitchells judgement. i feel a lot of you fellas are getting a little carried away thinking we could fit both coyne and sterj under the cap without one being a marquee. im really hopeful we get just one at least, coyne will sure up our defence and wont command a marquee spot and sterjovski is a gun going forward id be happy with either.

If you want Sterjovski you'll have to pay him a lot more than $300,000. Because thats what we offered him.
Roberto Carlos and Phillips are good marquee options.

Too be honest i dont think Sterj is even an option for us.
hed be great but we wont get him.
Coyne maybe.
that would be awesome.
if Sterj looked a possibility then Dave wouldn't go for a player of Phillips calibre and position and cost.

Wow ... just heard the tony sage interview posted on the other thread ....

I am very impressed by Tony Sage, and his commitment to glory .... his vision is simular to the vision of the glory fans which defintely make me love the guy! What he said about glory winning the asian champions league just shows how much he loves the club as much as we all do on this forum.

Tony said Chris Coyne and Mile had confirmed perth is where they wanted to go ... which is brilliant ... just a matter of sorting out contracts and whatnot ... but yet saying that im sure its much more complicated then that lol

from one topic to another .... I cant stand WA and its bias against football in this state, even in australia for that matter. AFL pre-season cup news beats news about the a league grand final? seriously WTF??? channel 7 is the most bias station out of them all ... and did u hear on that tony sage interview the fact that the government dont want to support football in this state either ... just ads to it :(

yer that interview was a relief to hear how committed he was to the team becoming a force not only in australia but asia as well.

off topic but if any of you fellas in perth like to play poker im setting up a weekly league if your interested... http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=54387433445

Please no talk of bringing Mrdja

How he scores is a mystery to me. Yes he can whack it with his left but that is all he has goot. I imagine he would struggle against any quality defender or defence as he is a one trick pony.

Interesting, but we're a baby competition, we'll grow over time. :)

That last bit by Coyne seems to suggest hes not happy with Glory.
whether thats a desire to make us win more or a desire to leave im not certain.

Oh and does anyone know where Luka Glavas has ended up ?
i remember him being in the Vic premeir league or something.
still i woud have thought a contract would be forthcoming in light of the new teams and current asian drain.

i dont think coyne is unhappy with glory ...

more like his unhappy with himself coz his had a shit season .... lol

to be honest I hope he moves to another club, or if he stays, plays right back again and not centre mid.

and bloody hell jamie coyne, lure your brother back to perth for us ey?

Hope he leaves. Worst captain ever. Worst player to play more than a season for Glory ever. Almost as bad as Adrian Webster for changeroom harmony.

Can't believe he could ever be considered for Socceroos duty. Scott Neville has shown in his handful of games at right back more than Coyne has shown in an entire career. And when Coyne plays midfield, he does nothing but get in the way of his teammates. Complete waste of space.

He was at Sydney last year (season 3) but I don't know where he went afterward.

He scored two for Sydney United this weekend

Last season he played for Sydney Utd in the NSWPL. He was shit(saw a fair few games).

oh right.
i thought he had a future.
still him being dropped allowed for Niki to grow.
Does anyone think we'll resign Magdic ?
i think the kid has a future.
damn shame he was injured all last season.

http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=4&ContentID=127517

mmmm. donno what to say about that, needs to improve a little, saying that, T-S got into the squad so anyone can!

btw, did anyone have the link to the full Tony Sage interview?

Looking well in boys.
with Newcastle and us being the front runners for chippers its obvious hed choose us.
theyve said family is a key issue and what kind of family would want to go to newcastle.
our dreams may come true after all.

would be. just need Coyne as well then we've got a wicked defence. Not playing first team league one <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< A-League Superstar

if it happens should be:

-------------------Velaphi-------------------
Neville---Harnwell-----C.Coyne---Chipperfeild
------------------Amaral/Shroj--------------.
Pellegrino-----------------------Seveloski--
------------------Import/Jukic---------------
-----------Sikora-------------Dadi----------- With J. Coyne, Juric, Jukic, Skorich

chippers doesn't only strengthen our defence i can just dream of his lovely crosses into the box to dadi, would be pretty dam sweet

If Chippers signed for Glory, would it be better to play him at left-back, left-wing or possibly even up front?

I personally think it'd be best to have a quality player where he can do the most damage ie in the attacking third. Problem is that then leaves a massive hole at full-back (so few A-League players play the position well).

Since we have Sikora at left mid, signing Chippers would probably be as a left-back. Then sign a quality young striker and a marquee central midfielder (Appiah). Or sign a quality young midfielder and a marquee striker (Crespo).

If the club promotes guys like Boi, Jukic, Skorich, Neville and Aleksic to the senior squad along with Doyle and Magdic then hopefully we would have room under the salary cap for both Coyne and Chipperfield allowing us to sign a big-name foreign marquee.

Chippers would be best as a left-back ... but used in an attacking sence like cassio ... as we already have sikora as left mid ... and i dont think chippers would be suited to playing up front ... and thats if we sign him ...

just read an article on the world game website by the way ...
mile sterjovski said he doesnt want to come to the a-league anytime soon and is happy at the rams ...

why dont we target josip skoko? he would be a great attacking centre mid next to shroj

Thanks for posting the article Southern3.

Well, seems Naum's been re-signed then. :p And aswell as that, if Mitchell is talking like that about Naum (Albeit with the proviso he has a good pre-season + season lol) then it may suggest, as some of you have hinted, that we may not be so confident about securing Chippers or ANY quality LB for our team.

I still advocate, if we don't get Chippers then surely we should use a Visa spot for a good quality LB, another Cassio, or an Asian/African-Cassio or something!

Teams this season have utilise 5 Visa players and atm Glory only have 2 signed (Sikora and Dadi) with maybe a third to be re-signed (Amaral).

Other visa guy should be a second Striker to replace Ruka' or a decent AM to replace Trinidad (Or just bring back Trinidad, if we're desperate :p).

Mitchell complains that we can't attract or compete for the leading Aussie talent, due, inpart to our geogrpahci isolation from the Eastern States. But as we've seen with Dadi especially, having decent foreigners cann do alot to bringing in that quality needed, especially in a snowball effect kind of way - re-placing quality, fulfilling quality void, attracting more quality, encouraging quality play from team mates and lifting team's performance/standard, aswell as, in Dadi's case, bringing that entertainment value and perhaps good value off the field, in promotion, publicity, advertising etc...

Having 5 Visa places was introduced largely as a band aide to help support the expansion clubs and the clubs who's squads may be effected by their recruiting/poaching, from them and the general talent pool.

But Perth is the least of these to be affected, not seriously anyway, yet Glory could easily benefit the most from utilising these 5 spots and indeed could be one club who truly utilises all 5 spots (No spots wasted on Kiwis or forth rate Poms *cough* Robinson *cough*).

Edited by gloryperth: 4/3/2009 03:45:58 AM

I'm pretty confident that Mitchell can bring someone good along. So far he's brought Dadi, Amaral and Trinidad, all who have been a reasonable sucess when they're playing.

Yeah for me Mitchell is a great recruiter.
while resigning Robinson will remain a mystery for me I'm sure he cant make the same mistake twice.
I think looking at some African leagues could be a good move.
though an unlikely one if im honest.