Squad Development 2024/25

[Sithslayer1991]

Lol the list people came up with explains why Clisby is still around Not many LBs around. The good ones are already taken and the best Aussies are overseas. And not many recruited LB as their Visa signing.

Kasey Bos, De Vries and Behich are the best ones in the A-league. Kitto and Muragis I would put above Clisby but they are also a limited players

[StringerBellend]

11 hours ago, Sithslayer1991 said:

Lol the list people came up with explains why Clisby is still around Not many LBs around. The good ones are already taken and the best Aussies are overseas. And not many recruited LB as their Visa signing.

Kasey Bos, De Vries and Behich are the best ones in the A-league. Kitto and Muragis I would put above Clisby but they are also a limited players

I'd take limited right now 

It's a great thread though isn't it? So roughly though Clisby is in the bottom maybe middle of A League left backs. 

As much as he drives me nuts, we can cope with him if we can get the rest of the defence sorted.

Unfortunately we have inexperienced CBs (with good potential) and/or a import centre back with a decent CV who prior to being injured wasn't playing well due to not being very good / being out on the pingers / playing injured / temp form slump / still getting to know team mates (delete as appropriate). 

Cleur at RB is good although for mine has a bad habit of giving very soft free kicks away and occasionally switching off.

I dig Simmons but he isn't really a fullback 

 

 

[SBW]

13 hours ago, MathyouWSW said:

Auckland's Francis De Vries and Victory's Kasey Bos.

I rate De Vries as the best LB in the A-League at the moment, We should have signed De Vries last season when he was playing in the NZ League with Eastern Suburbs.

[StringerBellend]

I still can't believe there isn't a kid in Western Sydney with a left foot 

[Smoggy]

31 minutes ago, StringerBellend said:

I still can't believe there isn't a kid in Western Sydney with a left foot 

Apparently there wasn't one in the whole of England at the last Euro's.

[GE942150]

Apparently Rubin Kazan are willing to loan Umarali Rakhmonaliev to us, but we are competing with Bodrum FK to sign him.

@WESTSYDFAN

 

[Robvad10]

maybe we shouldve just kept traore......

[StringerBellend]

2 hours ago, Robvad10 said:

maybe we shouldve just kept traore......

With hindsight we should have. That said his last game for us was dreadful 

[WHACKO]

5 hours ago, StringerBellend said:

I still can't believe there isn't a kid in Western Sydney with a left foot 

Apparently all kids in Western Sydney look like this.

[matty]

7 minutes ago, WHACKO said:

Apparently all kids in Western Sydney look like this.

But can he play left back? 

[WHACKO]

2 minutes ago, matty said:

But can he play left back? 

No worse than the one we have now.

[MathyouWSW]

6 hours ago, StringerBellend said:

I still can't believe there isn't a kid in Western Sydney with a left foot 

We had two decent ones and the club let them go.

Issac Hovar & Aiden Mostofi (Mostofi mostly played as a left winger in the Academy but could play as a left back if needed). 

[Davo]

9 hours ago, GE942150 said:

Apparently Rubin Kazan are willing to loan Umarali Rakhmonaliev to us, but we are competing with Bodrum FK to sign him.

@WESTSYDFAN

 

Popa had a choice between us and Turkish relegation fodder. He chose poorly.

[StringerBellend]

9 hours ago, GE942150 said:

Apparently Rubin Kazan are willing to loan Umarali Rakhmonaliev to us, but we are competing with Bodrum FK to sign him.

@WESTSYDFAN

 

Brillante to play Centre Back then? We are fine for Centre midfield, granted we could better but it is far from our biggest problem 

[Sithslayer1991]

19 hours ago, Robvad10 said:

maybe we shouldve just kept traore......

The counter point is that he is at the end of his use by date as well and older than Clisby. Against Victory it looked like we actually targeted Traore specifically, because from that back line he is the weak link for Victory.

 

23 hours ago, SBW said:

I rate De Vries as the best LB in the A-League at the moment, We should have signed De Vries last season when he was playing in the NZ League with Eastern Suburbs.

We barely go for NSW NPL, we were never going to go for a player that plays in the NZ leagues otherwise we would have gotten Brian Kaltak.

[Upthehill]

12 hours ago, StringerBellend said:

Brillante to play Centre Back then? We are fine for Centre midfield, granted we could better but it is far from our biggest problem 

Not so sure about that. Scicluna out for the season leave us with Brillante and Priestman. We aren't winning any games with Mata at CM. Badolato still has a decent amount of maturing to do and I have questions around his defensive capability. 

Currently rumours floating around about Tommy Deng too, which would be a great snag

[StringerBellend]

1 minute ago, Upthehill said:

Not so sure about that. Scicluna out for the season leave us with Brillante and Priestman. We aren't winning any games with Mata at CM. Badolato still has a decent amount of maturing to do and I have questions around his defensive capability. 

Currently rumours floating around about Tommy Deng too, which would be a great snag

 

mata should be playing CM with Brillante 

Priestman and/or Badalto to come on later 

not saying it couldn't strengthened but it's far from our main problem 

CB we have kids and put of position players starting. If we get Deng at CB then by all means use the visa spot on a ace CM, but we need to sort CB

 

[Sithslayer1991]

Just watched Total A-league. Rugari confirmed Thomas Deng has been approached by the club but also by Victory

[immortalshogun]

5 minutes ago, Sithslayer1991 said:

Just watched Total A-league. Rugari confirmed Thomas Deng has been approached by the club but also by Victory

Would be happy with either Deng or Degenek tbh. We just need someone solid to lead our backline and we’d be challenging 

[Kotallo]

2 hours ago, immortalshogun said:

Would be happy with either Deng or Degenek tbh. We just need someone solid to lead our backline and we’d be challenging 

I want them both

Dengenek unleashed

[mack]

Don't expect Deng to come here. I can't see the club making an offer good enough that he would reject going back to live in Melbourne with his family.

[Upthehill]

3 hours ago, mack said:

Don't expect Deng to come here. I can't see the club making an offer good enough that he would reject going back to live in Melbourne with his family.

Are you suggesting that Blacktown isn’t a desirable location for living? Are you not aware of the beach at Penrith!? Surely you know we have a Krispy Kreme’s… living in the west he’ll have the chance to climb Mt Druitt!

 

yeah ****… he’s going to Melbourne isn’t he?

 

[StringerBellend]

4 hours ago, mack said:

Don't expect Deng to come here. I can't see the club making an offer good enough that he would reject going back to live in Melbourne with his family.

Deng it

[Tobinho]

Carluccio...

[immortalshogun]

7 minutes ago, Tobinho said:

Carluccio...

Underwhelming but surely not the only transfer we make (i hope)

[mack]

Bringing the coach of the team that finished last, last season working so well that Stajcic now wants to start bringing players not good enough to play for one of the worst teams in the A-League history.

Wonderful scouting network we have.

[GE942150]

28 minutes ago, Tobinho said:

Carluccio...

Sigh. Can we aim any lower?

[matty]

Rumours we're in talks with Zadkovich to coach next season.

[MathyouWSW]

12 minutes ago, GE942150 said:

Sigh. Can we aim any lower?

We're in talks with Seyi Adeleke?!

[MathyouWSW]

12 minutes ago, matty said:

Rumours we're in talks with Zadkovich to coach next season.

We're better off just having Carl "Robbo The Clown" Robinson back if that's the case.