Re: The Official A-League Thread.
veridis said:
i'm sick of all this "SFC is too old"/"MV is building for the future" bullshit . building for the future? kaz and love are on loan. you're building for other clubs futures. you want to look for young aussie talent. SFC have 3 players in the Olyroos, MV 1. great empire you're building there. all you "prospects" are in their mid-late 20's, in the prime of their careers, they should be shining now, pushing for socceroos places but still you insist on arguing they're "for the future". your only players that should still be "prospects"(ie U23) are Broxham, Berger, Piorky, Panta, Kaz and Love, and the last two arent even yours. SFC have Zadkovich, Tsattalios, Vidiac, Timpano, Casey and Biddle all under 21. Plus Milligan and Brosque also U23. Sydney FC is what the A-League set out to be. Experienced Aussies and big name foreigners creating a quality league for true youngsters to get a chance and develop before moving on to Europe, where all established Socceroos should be playnig for a long time yet. MV is a team full of players in their prime(25-30) who couldnt cut it in Europe. You seem to think the A-League is a top world league, and can keep players in their prime. With a few exceptions if a player is still here in his prime he's simply not good enough. These are the types of players MV is full of.
as for how is love a reject, at age 20 he was still playing in the state league of sao paulo and wasn't even picked up for the reserves of any of the teams in the 4 levels of brazillian soccer above him. instead he got picked up by a mediocre jap team(they only just promoted from J2 last season) and is getting loaned out from there. He'd be in the bottom 2 or 3 Brazillians in the league easily.
anyway how's ljube mobile settling in? i hear the team spirit is great down there in tardistan.
You also forgot Langerak, he's only 18.
Up until the departure of Leijer we had 8 under 23 prospects
Sydney currently have 8, after the departure of Carney.
One less under 23-player and suddenly we're a team full of "players in their prime(25-30) who couldnt cut it in Europe". We have 12 players who fit that age. Only one, Muscat, is older (33)
By the same token Sydney have "prime players" who couldnt cut it in Europe in the shape of - Fyfe, McFlynn, Necevski, and Bolton,Rudan and Middleby and Talay( all 31, so past prime by your reasoning).
SFC - 3 "prime players"
- 8 players between 31 to 34 years of age.
I see where the experienced part of your team comes from, but saying that Sydney are providing opportunities for 'true youngsters to get a chance' is absurd.
You have one more U23 player than us.
Chances are Sydney are going to keep playing the older players,
Rudan Middleby Talay Juninho Popovic Corica Fyfe McFlynn Bolton...
That leaves two spots, most likely taken by Milligan and Zadkovic
Who have you got sitting on the bench then? Most of your 'true youngsters'.
I don't see Tsalliotis getting too much game time, just like at MVFC I don't see Langerak (our youngest player) getting a lot of game time because of quality competition.
Congrats SFC on making the A-League a breeding ground for 'true youngsters' and 'giving them a chance'.
Please.
