By scott21 - 2 Feb 2017 10:17 PM
Football Confidential: Central Coast Mariners’ dispute with Mickael Tavares getting nasty
THINGS aren’t as happy go lucky as they might seem on the surface at the Mariners, where a potentially nasty dispute is brewing over an injury that has ended Mickael Tavares’s season.
The midfielder’s ankle problem did not respond to several weeks of rehab with a doctor in Europe he had worked with before (and had treated players like Samir Nasri), and so the Senegalese international has had to have surgery — ruling him out for the rest of the campaign.
The Mariners want to claim his wages under the A-League insurance scheme, but they fear his injury was a pre-existing condition which might be excluded by the insurers.
Medical records from previous clubs have been sought in a bid to clarify things, and now lawyers have got involved on both sides, as well as the players’ union.
We’re told the club made him an offer to leave now, which Tavares has turned down, and it looks like things could get nasty.
Mickael Tavares and the Mariners are at loggerheads.
ARNIE CENSURED
THE transfer window came and went without Rhys Williams leaving Perth, with the Glory holding firm in the face of his desire to leave.
The question is what happens next — his contract has an option for another year but that isn’t triggered until he’s played 20 games. The defender has managed only eight — which means that unless he starts playing pronto, it will soon be too late for that option to be enacted, allowing him to sign with other clubs for next season.
There has been one other bit of fallout from the acrimony of the January window — after Perth complained about Sydney coach Graham Arnold’s comments on Williams (“We’d love him if they don’t want him,” was about the size of it). Sydney CEO Tony Pignata got a phone call from A-League boss Greg O’Rourke, telling him Arnold was out of line.
Arnold is now telling friends he’s been “gagged”, which we hope isn’t true.
Has Sydney FC coach Graham Arnold really been ‘gagged’?
ALCACER ON OUTER
THERE was a lot of excitement at the Mariners about the arrival of Argentine forward Facundo Alcacer on trial a few weeks back, but it looks like Alcacer hasn’t quite cut it. We hear he’s on the verge of signing for an NPL club down in Victoria.
SCOTT’S NOT GREAT ENOUGH
WESTERN Sydney’s bid for Scott McDonald was rejected by Motherwell, but it was always a tall order to land the former Socceroo given the lack of room in the Wanderers’ salary cap. One suggestion put forward from an intermediary was McDonald could come in under the so-called Cahill Rule — as a guest player outside the cap — but that was never going to get the tick of approval from the FFA’s overzealous marketing department.
Part of the problem is Western Sydney already have two marquees — Nicolas Martinez and, basically for accounting purposes, Jumpei Kusukami.
Originally published as Mariners, Tavares set for bitter fight
http://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/sport/football-confidential-central-coast-mariners-dispute-with-mickael-tavares-getting-nasty/news-story/3e3381c335e3e68cc7d98e4c780ccd80
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By SWandP - 3 Feb 2017 5:26 PM
"Arnold is now telling friends he’s been “gagged”, which we hope isn’t true."
Au contraire! It would make my day.
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