Just remembered, but a couple of weeks ago on lets talk football the said that Sydney FC youth striker Kofi Danning was in town looking at getting a contract with Perth.

Danning hey ?
he was alright.
got a solid build certainly worth looking at.
though we do have Skorich.
i'd rather have a few more seasoned strikers to help Dadi.
still i'd be happy with that.
In the paper today it said Sage has been in talks with two roos and at least one looks set to sign.
methinks Burns may well be coming home.

danning is definitely the next big export. i would have thought sydney would have him wrapped up though?

no need to imagine that day, coz it will happen before then! i hope :D

and im not sure how many seasons harnwell has left in him, maybe this could be his last? or at the most maybe 2 seasons.

and we got 4 points on the road last season .... the draw against wellington and the win against sydney, im pretty sure thats the only points we got on the road. Our home form is enough to get us in the finals, providing we get at least 10+ points on the road at minimum!

Interesting... Burns would be a great pick-up.

Wouldn't mind Danning either - if only for the inevitable overseas transfer fee

Depends which Burns one speaks of - I'd say Jacob Burns is more likely to come home (Stuck on the bench in Romania, been in Europe for a decade) rather than Nathan Burns who in his first season in Europe, has finally making the bench and even a few substitute appearances in recent times with AEK Athens. Any rumours of Nathan Burns returning would have to be a joke - unless it was in the form of a loan spell. But even then, a joke, as a loan spell to here essentially equates to 'Euro club wants to let go of them' ala Patafta and Thwaite. If Nathan Burns went on loan, he'd go to a 2nd Division club in Greece - that would be more likely and better for him, his development, his club, all round.

One wonders - had Patafta gone out on loan to the Portuguese Second Division, might he still be in Portugal/Europe now?

narr its jacob burns .... i think he would be a good pik up ... havnt seen him play much though .... but i say would have a simular style to shroj and could link up well with him ... as for danning .. i wouldnt mind him ... not as a regular striker though, just as a backup ... i would probably rate danning over skorich.

Old quote tommy, but I noticed you mentioned Fernando Ricksen in the Sydney signings thread and I put two and two together. Probably 5 but you never know....

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11688_5138277,00.html

Sorry guys but i don't think we'll get him.

In the paper today it confirmed the Wolves game.
and also says were looking at playing Fulham.
i mean i'd way rather Everton then Fulham but it would still be awesome.

Saw that too. We're such old men!

I'd like to see Perth Glory play as many friendlies as physically possible, at MES or around the grounds. I'd like to see my local Swan United vs Perth Glory @ Frances Street. And other matches too. + the big matches like Wolverhampton and Fulham.

WOAHHHHHH! Big news here!

hmm nicely ties in with my tip of jacob burns doesnt it :]

It does indeed.
was Burns in the squad ?
what was the squad like ?
anyone have a link to it.
i doubt it would be anyone who got on the pitch.

According to wiki:
1. Schwazer
2. Neill
3. Moore
4. Cahill
5. Culina
6. Popovic
7. Emerton
8. Skoko
9. Viduka
10. Kewell
11. Lazaridis
12. Covic
13. Grella
14. Chipperfield
15. Aloisi
16. Beauchamp
17. Thompson
18. Kalac
19. Kennedy
20. Wilkshire
21. Sterjovski
22. Milligan
23. Bresciano

I don't think its any of those. Jacob Burns seems to fit the bill. Current socceroo, his last game was Uzbeckistan in Tashkent, not getting any game time over in Romania, SausageMahony congratulations, you have picked a winner.

Great signing. Will add a wealth of experience to the team. By the sounds of it I believe we can score another experienced marquee player, who along with Dadi, Harnwell and Burns can pass some of their knowledge onto some of our very promising youngsters.

Hmmmmm.
look at that squad.
4 of the players are retired.
i think that article might be a bit off southern hahahaha.
but yeah i presum Burns made the squad.
i cant find it in the FFT articles.
spooky.

This was the squad named agains the Uzbeks..
I couldn't see it being anyone else other than Burnsy, perhaps there is still an outside chance Coyne has had a change of mind.

Michael Beauchamp
Mark Bresciano
Jacob Burns
Tim Cahill
David Carney
Scott Chipperfield
Chris Coyne
Jason Culina
Bruce Djite
Adam Federici
Richard Garcia
Brett Holman
Mile Jedinak
Josh Kennedy
Harry Kewell
Scott McDonald
Lucas Neil
Jade North
Michael Petkovic
Mark Schwarzer
Mile Sterjovski
Carl Valeri
Luke Wilkshere

Edited by SausageMahoney: 5/4/2009 10:52:50 PM

LOL! I looked at the 2006 World Cup Squad.](*,) ](*,) ](*,)

Holman... rofl.

Big news indeed, I'm not a Glory fan but I would be happy to see you guys in top four this coming season.

Hmmmmm.
it is actually possible that its Holman.
but i think the most likely are

David Carney
Jacob Burns
Michael Petkovic
Chris Coyne
Brett Holman

and because there was that Burns rumour i'll happily go with him.
lets just hope there not planning on waiting until we qualify to announce this.
hahaha

I agree with you these are the only possibilities. But that said I doubt it'd be Holman (he would still consider himself worthy of a long European career) or Petkovic (because we surely wouldn't sign ANOTHER old keeper with Velaphi and Juric on the books, would we?). Coyne seems likely to hang out in England until after 2010, and Carney would probably want to stay in Europe too. So Burns it is... unless it's someone like Stefanutto who didn't make this particular squad.

Would be great to have Burns alongside Srhoj with Pellegrino and Sikora on the wings, plus Dadi and a marquee striker up front! Wouldn't even need a defence (not that I doubt the abilities of Neville, Harnwell and Velaphi to keep things somewhat respectable back there).

i dare say it but with burns in the midfield it would just about give us the best midfield in the league. now i was only ever 50/50 on phillips but if we had him up front that would of pretty much completed the team. oh well hopefully we are still in line for a classy striker, the club is talking up about spending cash so its all positives. this will be the first season ive looked fwd to in a long time.

i got a feeling its either burns or coyne ... would be happy if its either ... i would be upset if it was michael petkovic coz all this excitment for a goalkeeper which we dont need would kinda be gay ... with tando as our number one and juric as backup .. i dont think we need anymore in our goalkeeping stocks

Jacob Burns certainly looks likely and he'd be a decent signing certainly. It may mean Amaral is all but out of the picture now though, unless we may still sign him to play a bit further up the park.

Burnsy's wage too - Hmmm we have 3 more VISA spots free, with which one could well go to a Marquee. So with Burns AND perhaps another Socceroo (Sterjovski?), that's two VISA players we'd need to find on the cheap, I'd be guessing.

But yeah, Sterjovski has hinted he'd like to stay in Europe for the time being (Though recently his minutes with Derby have stil been quite inconsistent) and as you guys have said, Chris Coyne has practically said he's keen to stay on in Europe one more season.

Perth Boy and former Joey, Adrian Madaschi, who's playing Serie C atm, would be a nice pick up for our Central Defence. Though I've heard he's turned Glory down before to stay in Serie C (Though that was just a rumour).

The other Visa spot seems set to be a Craddock-like CB - if we can't land a Coyne or another decent Aussie CB, like the above. Mitchell seems set on Craddock, but he's pretty much turned him down ofcourse.

Our Marquee, who ever it is, seems set to be a second striker. Phillips is certainly out of the question now. I'm hoping one of those two remaining VISA spots will be used on another '#10/Trinidad like' player and maybe the latter on a left sided defender, Cassio-esque?

I think we'd take down two birds with one stone, if one of those two Visa players atleast, were an AFC player. We'd could easily find a half decent AM or even back up striker, from SE Asia or even a Cassio-esque Left Wing Back. I may be generalising, but South East Asians tend to have good technique, pace and stamina, So finding a bloke for out there may not be as hard as one thinks, either. There's always Africa too. But with the Asians ofcourse, if we somehow get an ACL spot this coming season, then we could employ the 3+1 rule too.

Imagine - Dadi, Sikora, Marquee + a Thai International, or something?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nattaporn_Phanrit (Thai NTs long time Left Back - Was linked to Melbourne victory apparently)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isnan_Ali (29yo. Indonesia NTs long time Left Back. Played against Australia in that Asian Cup fixture, start of this year.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sattar_Zare (26yo. Iran NTs long time Left Back - Contract expires middle of this year, I think?)

Iran could be interesting, as even though a few of their boys earn big bucks over there, there NT has suffered from their players playing mediocre football in the UAE, Qatar etc... and they have far too few players in Europe to rise to that next level. Like the Korean 'Song,' a few talent young Iranians could see the A-League as a perfect pathway, language/culture, football style wise, to Europe.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gaspar WA Boy Robbie Gaspar is a left footer and it would be nice to see him in Glory's squad too

Sorry a bit of a tangent, but I hope we do use one of those 5 Visa spots on an AFC player and that could work well within our squad too, if our cap becomes a bit stretched through other signings.

Edited by gloryperth: 6/4/2009 07:52:35 PM

the thing is bovs they signed the guy in sydney.
so he had to be in that squad.
yeah on second thoughts rule out Petko.
im backing burns some more.
god this is annoying.
just confirm it you bastards hahahaha.
why do you think there holding out ?
or is it just to get this kind of attention ?
Craddock turned us down i think.
there was another CB we were after.
look back in this thread to find him if you can be bothered.

I reckon we'll put on a strong title challenge (hopefully), or at least make the finals.



Maybe they're were just waiting for him to play on Wednesday so that they could be like, yeh well he played on Wednesday against Uzbeckistan. That didn't come off. Maybe they'll wait until the end of the Romanian season, shouldn't be too long left.

BTW A-League Pre-Season apparently starts later this month, so that's when we may start hearing more (About players on trial, recruits etc...).

Glad we sorted that Wolves friendly already.

Frustrating with Coyne - Colchester are 10 points off the 6th play off place, so obviously do not look like getting promoted. He'll be stuck in league One again, next year, unless he is transfers to a club in a better league. Coyne is 31 this year, 32 next, time isn't on his side yet it's suggested he wants to stay another season. It's his dam contract - we'd have to buy out the remaining year on it, to get him over here. :( He'll be 33+ by the time he returns to Perth and hopefully he does not end up like how Shaun Murphy did, just playing the one season, because they came that season or two, too late. If he's worried about shortage of football, he could always get a loan move to the K-League. If Jade North, Sasa Og' and even Antun Kovacevic of all defenders, could get deals there, then Coyney certainly could. Like Culina, he would more than keep in Pim's 2010 sights doing this. I'd reckon Pim would rate such a move/scenario better than League One, given he'd be playing K-League aswell? He'd feature in those November Asian cup Qualifiers too, if he was based here, so even more time with Pim and a chance to overtake the likes of Jade North in the overall defensive pecking order, maybe even Michael Beauchamp if he impresses alongside Moorey, to become our leading 3rd option.

It's a gamble worth taking for Coyney and I reckon it's worth Sagey coughing up a small transfer fee for the player, given he has a year remaining. I also presume, though I could well be wrong (And it's none of our business per say), that he'd have a wife and/or young family too at his age. So given all these reasons, why not the move back now? Guys like Culina and Moore are showing one can move to the A-League and maintain, even enhance, their Socceroos prospects (even Joel Porter will).

And IF he does, our defence will be going from on the weak side, to ace and we
are suddenly A-League title contenders and in for 2012 ACL spots.

Definently. We would of made the finals if we didn't conceed so many goals. Our attacking record was awesome but we let in too many soft goals, escpecially at the beggining of the season and that cost us quite a few points.

Sorry I read one of the recent articles surrounding Coyne (Again) and it mentioned that he has 2 more years left on his contract, as of this month! So I presume that means the 09/10 season and 01/11 season with Colchester.

So, that means if we don't get him this season and went after him for the 2010/11 season, we'd STILL have to pay a transfer fee for him. Albeit the transfer fee might be a tad smaller, with less of the contract to run. Looks like when he transferred to Colchester in Jan of 08, he signed a 3 and a half year contract. #-o For us.

Oh well, I guess that means, as Coyney has kind of hinted, that we could still go after him now as it makes not much difference, cost wise, as to 'when' we opt to buy him, before of after the World Cup. By Coyney hinting, I mean he said, "I am not sure if it will be after the World Cup or before but I have always said I will come back and play in Australia.''

Get him for this season and we're guaranteed to get 2 more seasons out of him, than we, and Australia, otherwise may've (If we delayed a season or two) ala the Craig Moore since being at Roar scenario.

By reading this article again, I see not only has Coyne left the door ajar, he's given Glory more than a strong hint to go after him! It's in Sagey's court now, I guess.

So Coyne could well be in, going by his quotes in this couple weeks old article (Already posted elsewhere I know).

http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,25228000-5005408,00.html

Edited by gloryperth: 6/4/2009 08:43:28 PM