World Football Thread

[AceLosesKing]

what about the aaron kleemann line for babies of his?

am i the only one in line?

Unfortunately

[Chelsea4thewin]

get out of this thread boys

world football ONLY

[AceLosesKing]

But world football is ghey too, the two go hand in hand.

Like a ghey couple.

[bennymacca]

we are not a ghey couple, i will just be a surrogate for awesome poker babies, that is all.

[krunchie]

Dalglish rejoining is old news as well, but it's still awesome!

Get on the website more often krunchie, http://www.liverpoolfc.tv

My bad pete, but i havent had a lot of time for web surfing lately

So i rely on you and steve to keep me upto date of the coming and goings of world football.

How old news is the dalgesh thing, as i recieved the liverpool newsletter today with it, if its really old im a bit disapointed with the website, whats the point of being a member if you get old news.

[BigPete33]

I think less than 24 hours is old.

It's less than a week.


Has been talked about for some time but was only confirmed recently.

Dalglish will have an advisory role at the academy and will also be a world ambassador for the club.

[maccatak11]

another good source for stuff is the ESPNsoccernet website. i have found this especially useful as they have a dedicated mobile phone website with live text-based commentary of all games including a-league matches. excellent place to keep up with all of the results when you are out at something boring but REALLY need to know the scores.

[BigPete33]

A-League season starting soon!

Plenty to look forward to as well. There's been several signings of note with the likes of Robbie Fowler and a few socceroos as well (Perth have 3!).
The addition of 2 new teams in North Queensland Fury and Gold Coast United will be sure to add plenty to the league. Gold coast have declared they will go through unbeaten and win the league in their maiden season. So far they actually are undefeated in all pre-season matches, including against English Premier League side Fulham.

Courtesy of Fox Sports here's the A-league in's and out's:

Adelaide United
Re-signed: Daniel Mullen (2 years)
In: Shin In Sup (Kunkuk University, South Korea, two years), Iain Fyfe (Sydney FC, one year), Adam Hughes (Drogheda United, Ireland, two years), Michael Marrone (Adelaide United NYL, one year), Joe Costa (Adelaide United NYL, 2 years), Francesco Monterosso (Adelaide United NYL, 2 years), Lloyd Owusu (Cheltenham Town, England, 2 years)
Out: Paul Agostino (retired), Daniel Beltrame (retired), Angelo Costanzo (Newcastle Jets), Diego (released), Isyan Erdogan (released), Sasa Ognenovski (Seongnam Ilhwa, Korea Republic), Jonas Salley (released), Jason Spagnuolo (North Queensland Fury), Michael Valkanis (retired), Robert Younis (released)

Brisbane Roar
Re-signed: Craig Moore (one year), Matt McKay (two years), Massimo Murdocca (two years), Mitch Nichols (two years), Andrew Packer (two years), Reinaldo (three years), Danny Tiatto (one year), Michael Zullo (two years)
In: Henrique (Formiga, Brazil, one year), Matt Mundy (Brisbane Roar NYL, two years), Adam Sarota (Brisbane Roar NYL, three years)
Out: Chris Grossman (North Queensland Fury), Matt McKay (Changchun Yatai, China, on loan), Tahj Minniecon (Gold Coast United), Hyuk-Su Seo (released)

Central Coast Mariners
Re-signed: None
In: Chris Doig (Northampton Town, two years), Shane Huke (Dagenham & Redbridge, England, six months, Asian Champions League only), Adam Kwasnik (Wellington Phoenix, two years), Nick Rizzo (Perth Glory, six month, Asian Champion League only)
Out: Mile Jedinak (Genclerbirligi, Turkey), Matthew Osman (Gold Coast United). Sasho Petrovski (Newcastle Jets), Nick Rizzo, Andre Gumprecht, Paul O'Grady, Greg Owens (all released)

Gold Coast United
In: Andrew Barisic (Melbourne Knights, one year), James Brown (Australian Institute of Sport, three years), Zenon Caravella (FC Omniworld, Netherlands, two years), Jason Culina (PSV Eindhoven, Netherlands, three Years), Steve Fitzsimmons (Beenleigh, Australia, one year), Richard Greer (Australian Institute of Sport, one year), Adam Griffiths (Newcastle Jets, three years), Scott Higgins (Eastern Suburbs, Australia, one year), Jefferson (Atletico Rorairama, Brazil, one year), Milson (Madureira, Brazil, one year), Tahj Minniecon (Under-23 marquee player, Brisbane Roar, three years), Matt Osman (Central Coast Mariners, two years), Steve Pantelidis (Melbourne Victory, two years), Joel Porter (Hartlepool United, England, three years), Daniel Piorkowski (Newcastle Jets, two years), Kristian Rees (Adelaide City, two years), Robson (Cabofriense, Brazil, one year), Shane Smeltz (Wellington Phoenix, New Zealand, three years), Michael Thwaite (SK Brann, Norway, three years), Bas van den Brink (FC Omniworld, Netherlands, two years), Jess Vanstrattan (Verona, Italy, two years)

Melbourne Victory
Re-signed: Evan Berger (two years), Grant Brebner (one year), Billy Celeski (two years), Matthew Kemp (two years), Mitchell Langerak (three years), Archie Thompson (two years), Rodrigo Vargas (two years), Nick Ward (two years)
In: Glen Moss (Wellington Phoenix, two years), Mathew Theodore (Melbourne Victory NYL, one Year)
Out: Steve Pantelidis (Gold Coast United), Sebastian Ryall (Sydney FC), Michael Thwaite (Gold Coast United).

Newcastle Jets
Re-signed: Jobe Wheelhouse (two years)
In: Angelo Costanzo (Adelaide United, one year), Donny de Groot (De Graafschap, Netherlands, one year), Peter Haynes (Broadmeadow Magic, six months, Asian Champions League only), Mitchell Johnson (APIA Leichhardt Tigers, six months, Asian Champions League only), Ljubo Milicevic (Melbourne Victory, one year), Sasho Petrovski (Central Coast Mariners, two years), Nikolai Topor-Stanley (Perth Glory, two years), Nikolas Tsattalios (Sydney FC, six months, Asian Champions League only), Sean Rooney (Sydney FC NYL, six months), Fabio Vignaroli (SS Lazio, Italy, six months, Asian Champions League only), Joel Wood (Broadmeadow Magic, six months, Asian Champions League only)
Out: Ante Covic (IF Elfsborg, Sweden), Adam Griffiths (Gold Coast United), Joel Griffiths (Beijing Guoan – On loan), Jesper Hakansson (released), Antun Kovacic (Ulsan Hyundai , Korea Republic), Mark Milligan (Shanghai Shenhua, China), Jade North (Incheon United FC, Korea Republic)

North Queensland Fury
In: Fred Agius (Adelaide City, one year), Beau Busch (Sydney FC, one year), Jeremy Brockie (Team Wellington, New Zealand, one year), Robbie Fowler (Blackburn Rovers, England, two years), Chris Grossman (Brisbane Roar, one year), Paul Kohler (Newcastle Jets, one year), Daniel McBreen (York City, England, one year), Robbie Middleby (Sydney FC, two years), Justin Pasfield (Wollongong Wolves, two years),James Robinson (Perth Glory, two years), Brendon Santalab (Sydney FC, two years), Jason Spagnuolo (Adelaide United, two years), Chris Tadrosse (Central Coast Mariners, two years), Ufuk Talay (Avispa Fukuoka, Japan, two years), Jacob Timpano (Sydney FC, two years), Marton Vass (APIA Leichhardt, one year), Scott Wilson (Dunfermline Athletic, Scotland, two years), Rostyn Griffiths (Adelaide United), Osama Malik (Adelaide United NYL)

Perth Glory
Re-signed: Eugene Dadi (one year), Adriano Pellegrino (two years), Naum Sekulovski (two years), Victor Sikora (one year), Scott Bulloch (one year), Tando Velaphi (two years), Wayne Srhoj (one year)
In: Jacob Burns (FC Unirea Urziceni, Romania, three years), Howard Fondyke (Perth Glory NYL, two years), Brent Griffiths (Perth Glory NYL, two years), Andrija Jukic (Perth Glory NYL, two years), Scott Neville (Perth Glory NYL, three years), Anthony Skorich (Perth Glory NYL, two years), Andy Todd (Derby County, England, one year), Mile Sterjovski (Derby County, England, three years), Branko Jelic (Energie Cottbus, Germany, three years)
Out: Jason Petkovic (retired), Nikolai Topor-Stanley (Newcastle Jets), David Tarka (released), Dino Djulbic (Rot Weiss Ahlen, Germany), Nick Rizzo (released), James Robinson (North Queensland Fury), Adrian Trinidad (released), Amaral (released), Josip Magdic (released), Nikita Rukavytsya (FC Twente, Netherlands), Hayden Doyle (Perth Glory NYL), Hayden Foxe (released), Mark Lee (released)

Sydney FC
Re-signed: Alex Brosque (two years), Adam Casey (two years), Shannon Cole (three years), Ivan Necevski (one year)
In: Karol Kisel (Sparta Prague, Czech Republic, one year), Sebastian Ryall (Melbourne Victory, two years), Kofi Danning (Sydney FC NYL, two years), Brendan Gan (Sydney FC NYL, two years), Antony Golec (Sydney FC NYL, two years), Rhyan Grant (Sydney FC NYL, two years), Matthew Jurman (Sydney FC NYL, two years), Sung-Hwan Byun (Jeju United, South Korea), Byun Sung-Hwan (Jeju United, South Korea, two years)
Out: Adam Biddle (released), Beau Busch (North Queensland Fury), Mike Enfield (released), Iain Fyfe (Adelaide United), Robbie Middleby (North Queensland Fury), Tony Popovic (retired), Brendon Santalab (North Queensland Fury), Jacob Timpano (North Queensland Fury), Nik Tsattalios (Newcastle Jets)

Wellington Phoenix
Re-signed: Tim Brown (two years), Manny Muscat (one year), Mark Paston (one year), Tony Lochhead (two years), Michael Ferrante (one year), Daniel Cortes (two years). Ben Sigmund (two years)
In: Chris Greenacre (Tranmere Rovers, two years), Diego Walsh (Adelaide United, two years), Marco Rojas (Waikato FC, two years), Reece Crowther (Queens Park Rangers, one year)
Out: Vaughan Coveny (retired), Karl Dodd (released), Greg Draper (released), Richard Johnson (retired), Glen Moss (Melbourne Victory), Shane Smeltz (Gold Coast United), Jeremy Christie (released), Adam Kwasnik (released)

[BigPete33]

The "in's" for Perth are yet to show soccerroo Chris Coyne.

[gundog]

Considering the small player movement from Melb Victory, how do you rate their chances this season.

Also what do you expect of Adelaide this year and who do you see as the top 2.