Squad Development 2024/25

[Del12]

Can anyone explain the Badolato saga that has been happening, rumoured swap deal with Sydney, loaned to Victory. Has there been a falling out or does he want minutes and is happy to sit on the bench at victory?

[mack]

Pretty sure it's as simple as Stajcic doesn't rate him, and as such he was something like 8th or 9th choice for an attacking position. Possibly also Stajcic wanting to have Carluccio back because Carluccio can (supposedly) play fullback now while Badolato can't.

[Bangaverage]

15 hours ago, Del12 said:

Can anyone explain the Badolato saga that has been happening, rumoured swap deal with Sydney, loaned to Victory. Has there been a falling out or does he want minutes and is happy to sit on the bench at victory?

im guessing sitting on the bench at victory is better than sitting in the stands with us

[Upthehill]

COnsidering tonights performance the question has to be asked...

Id be interested to see what people thoughts are on Marin Jakolis. 28yo aussie who's now got the same goal output as Lolley for this season. If Milanovic were to leave at the end of the season, which he probably will, are there many better options for non foreigners?

His performances for city were a bit 'meh' but hes been impressive for the cows. Especially considering he's been given almost no assistance in attack with the vast majority of their play makers either in jail or transfer out

His contract at bulls expires in 8 weeks. 

[immortalshogun]

8 hours ago, Upthehill said:

COnsidering tonights performance the question has to be asked...

Id be interested to see what people thoughts are on Marin Jakolis. 28yo aussie who's now got the same goal output as Lolley for this season. If Milanovic were to leave at the end of the season, which he probably will, are there many better options for non foreigners?

His performances for city were a bit 'meh' but hes been impressive for the cows. Especially considering he's been given almost no assistance in attack with the vast majority of their play makers either in jail or transfer out

His contract at bulls expires in 8 weeks. 

IMO he goes missing more often than Milanovic does. Would rather we swoop in for Segecic as he seems to be off contract at the end of the season and doesn’t seem to be happy at ESFC

[mack]

He's got 6 of his 9 goals against 3 of the worst teams in the league.

[GE942150]

Man, it's so frustrating to think just how much better we could have been this season if:

. Sciculina didn't get injured 

. We didn't waste, not one, but two visa spots on Antonson and Taewok

[StringerBellend]

1 hour ago, GE942150 said:

Man, it's so frustrating to think just how much better we could have been this season if:

. Sciculina didn't get injured 

. We didn't waste, not one, but two visa spots on Antonson and Taewok

Then Antonessen  visa spot isn't the waste not using one entirely is a waste. We are allowed 5 and use 4, the Victory game alone is better than nothing and he's scored 6

Tawok to be fair not his fault he got injured, although for the few games he played he was at fault for at least 3 goals..so gain I don't get the Antonessen dislike, he comes on and does a decent job. He'd be starting of sapsford wasn't so sexual 

a long way of saying the club chose not to use all visa spots

Also BTW as much a so love Mata and disagree with stajman on his use..

Antonessen has contributed more 

Edited April 6 by StringerBellend

[GE942150]

1 hour ago, StringerBellend said:

Then Antonessen  visa spot isn't the waste not using one entirely is a waste. We are allowed 5 and use 4, the Victory game alone is better than nothing and he's scored 6

Tawok to be fair not his fault he got injured, although for the few games he played he was at fault for at least 3 goals..so gain I don't get the Antonessen dislike, he comes on and does a decent job. He'd be starting of sapsford wasn't so sexual 

a long way of saying the club chose not to use all visa spots

Also BTW as much a so love Mata and disagree with stajman on his use..

Antonessen has contributed more 

Compare Antonson to the sfc visa striker, and you see the big difference. The other guy is just on loan as well.

[ItchyNek]

The only difference I see is that PK starts every game with 1600 mins played and has 10 goals (2 A) FC are also still paying his wages being on loan, MA has 700mins played with 6 goals (1 A) off the bench (funny though the three games he has started we have lost). 

None of the visa strikers have really impressed IMO

Thankfully all of our forwards have contributed with 6/7 goals besides Mila and we are not relying on one forward to score every time. Glad the team is all contributing

Edited April 6 by ItchyNek

[GE942150]

1 hour ago, ItchyNek said:

The only difference I see is that PK starts every game with 1600 mins played and has 10 goals (2 A) FC are also still paying his wages being on loan, MA has 700mins played with 6 goals (1 A) off the bench (funny though the three games he has started we have lost). 

None of the visa strikers have really impressed IMO

Thankfully all of our forwards have contributed with 6/7 goals besides Mila and we are not relying on one forward to score every time. Glad the team is all contributing

Yeah, the other forwards doing a good job really helps. Don't need to rely on Antonson.

[StringerBellend]

3 hours ago, GE942150 said:

Compare Antonson to the sfc visa striker, and you see the big difference. The other guy is just on loan as well.

Not saying he's brilliant but he's far from a wasted visa spot. Especially when the club is "wasting" a visa spot completely by leaving it empty. 

As the other dude points out his stats this season are pretty good. He would start more often if Sapsford wasn't doing so well. Arguably he's more effective than Borello.

Besides scoring goals isn't our problem. It's been shopping them going in we haven't been so good at. Our visa CB has been the bigger waste. To be fair largely due to injury although we will probably never really know if he was/is  any good. He didn't look good in the few games he played.

I suspect his next move is K2 or Singapore / India ...

But Even he though is better than nothing.

As for Kimala, he's a good but his goal celebrations are Kopite levels of cringe and I'm not sure he'd be guaranteed a start in our team either? Would you drop Borello or Sapsford for him? 

Think it's a league wide thing anyway that teams aren't putting as much into the view spots.  Out best seasons used to be built off a core off a core of visa players (eg Alberto, Dimas, Andreu, Castellan) and our season would totally tank if we got our visa players wrong (borda, Pinatares, Jumpei)

This year we have 1 regular starter and 2 contributing from the bench, 1 injured for the season and 1 who never existed 

And we are Eetswa, largely. We still could have done with picking up a midfielder in Jan and who knows if Laws actually exists but we are Eetswa 

Edited April 6 by StringerBellend

[SBW]

7 hours ago, GE942150 said:

We didn't waste, not one, but two visa spots on Antonson and Taewok

As Stajcic said at the fans forum, he's unlikely going to sign Foreign players in the future and he even hinted at yesterday's presser that he wants to give more opportunities to players like Panta than sign foreign players

[StringerBellend]

1 hour ago, SBW said:

As Stajcic said at the fans forum, he's unlikely going to sign Foreign players in the future and he even hinted at yesterday's presser that he wants to give more opportunities to players like Panta than sign foreign players

I'm mostly ok with that, but it's nice to get to see a player like an Ono or a Mata play.

But totally rather Panta than some Liga 2 dude on holiday before he goes to semi pro 

[Sithslayer1991]

I wouldn't get Jakolis. If I put him up against Hammond, Hammond has a bigger ceiling and would be the one I would have confidence to replace Milanovic should he leave. 

We also don't know the Younis situation, does he come back? does PSV pay the transfer fee? He is having a decent season but so did Segicic and he still ended up back here in A-league despite a solid season. Would be nice for a loan update from the club or a leak on what the plan is from the agent.

Badolato is also in this conversation we still don't know if comes back or if he gets mutually terminated to join Victory.

[Upthehill]

22 hours ago, Sithslayer1991 said:

I wouldn't get Jakolis. If I put him up against Hammond, Hammond has a bigger ceiling and would be the one I would have confidence to replace Milanovic should he leave. 

We also don't know the Younis situation, does he come back? does PSV pay the transfer fee? He is having a decent season but so did Segicic and he still ended up back here in A-league despite a solid season. Would be nice for a loan update from the club or a leak on what the plan is from the agent.

Badolato is also in this conversation we still don't know if comes back or if he gets mutually terminated to join Victory.

Hammond I had factored in, Younis I completely forgot about. He's got 3 goals and 4 assists from 22 games. Without having seen him play, its hard to know but at only 19 thats probably interesting enough for PSV to want to keep him around.

I'm betting we are going to have to go hunting for someone in the offseason. Doesnt really seem like theres enough cattle in the NPL team to bring someone up to be effective off the bench like Hammond is. 

[Paul01]

16 minutes ago, Upthehill said:

Hammond I had factored in, Younis I completely forgot about. He's got 3 goals and 4 assists from 22 games. Without having seen him play, its hard to know but at only 19 thats probably interesting enough for PSV to want to keep him around.

I'm betting we are going to have to go hunting for someone in the offseason. Doesnt really seem like theres enough cattle in the NPL team to bring someone up to be effective off the bench like Hammond is. 

Younis is more down than up for Jong PSV. Not likely to buy imo

[Jefski]

I'm not convinced with both Younis or Hammond. Putting aside Hammond's brace a few weeks back (albeit against Hlory), not sure I've seen enough to say "wow". Same goes with Younis. What did PSV see that we didn't?

[mack]

In this team I think Younis outperforms Kraev in the opening 2 months and puts him on the bench with Antonsson. Kraev only scored once in the first 7 games, then got 2 in 2 games and went another 6 without scoring. After his NPL season he was ready to make a proper step up this year.

[Sithslayer1991]

You never know. They could be like Sapsford. Priestmann, Panta or Scicluna before the injury where they build into the team. Gotta give them the consistency to build in.

[Davo]

Depends who leaves, but it's entirely possible that next season we see a lineup with Bonetig and Panta at CB, Priestman and Scicluna in the middle, and a front four of Milanovic, Sapsford, Younis, and Hammond. They would have an average age of 22. Add in Thomas, Gersbach, and Cleur and that's still only an average of 24 next season.

[Sithslayer1991]

47 minutes ago, Davo said:

Depends who leaves, but it's entirely possible that next season we see a lineup with Bonetig and Panta at CB, Priestman and Scicluna in the middle, and a front four of Milanovic, Sapsford, Younis, and Hammond. They would have an average age of 22. Add in Thomas, Gersbach, and Cleur and that's still only an average of 24 next season.

What Borello,Thomas and Kraev disappeared 

[Davo]

27 minutes ago, Sithslayer1991 said:

What Borello,Thomas and Kraev disappeared 

Borello and Kraev are away on international duty. Thomas is hiding in the last sentence of my post.

[VedranRozic]

Mila won’t be at WSW next season….

[matty]

2 hours ago, VedranRozic said:

Mila won’t be at WSW next season….

He's a very ambitious boy, maybe a little too much

[Sithslayer1991]

They were discussing it on Total A-leagues he only one year left in the contract with his form the club would be looking for a move, otherwise likely to lose him for free. I think he is ready but he should be looking at Swiss, Austrian, Danish leagues

[immortalshogun]

Mila probably goes the second the season ends imo and we gave him the extra year to secure a transfer fee. If he walks and we get no fee then heads have to roll

[mack]

1 year contract extension this pre-season after scoring 9 goals at his age suggests he & his agents were expecting good performances over the remaining two years of the deal to enable a move to Asia or Europe, or at minimum, a very good A-League contract. It probably has a release clause now too.

[Bangaverage]

Interesting to see Milanovic has recently changed agents to a bigger international group, definitely sounds like he is on the move

[StringerBellend]

He was always leaving at the end of the season, surprised he stayed for this one, given Younis was off after about 20 mins of first team football