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Bonada will never play for us again so the loan deal hints that we were just as desperate to offload him on the final day as what Preston were to get someone in.

Eggs on our faces now that we know Preston didnt pay a transfer. Its a free hit to take a look at him for 6 months, if hes a hit they make it permanent on a free transfer, if hes shit they just dump him.

Ridiculous that we couldnt engineer a transfer with juve who are willing to pay transfer fees.
 
southmelb said:
I think the club wanted to loan most of these players out and Sam Poutakidis had mentioned it on 3xy but it looks like we pissed the youngsters off and they all wanted to outright leave.
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What was the point of playing the youth players for so many matches to then just release them in early July? It doesn't make sense. If a youth player is offered a contract by another club to play senior football - then no issue and best of luck to the kid. But the way we've done it is very peculiar. It poses questions around our strategy to develop youth players to make it to the senior team.
 
southmelb said:
Bonada will never play for us again so the loan deal hints that we were just as desperate to offload him on the final day as what Preston were to get someone in.

Eggs on our faces now that we know Preston didnt pay a transfer. Its a free hit to take a look at him for 6 months, if hes a hit they make it permanent on a free transfer, if hes shit they just dump him.

Ridiculous that we couldnt engineer a transfer with juve who are willing to pay transfer fees.
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I'd be curious to know if the shoe was on the other foot, how Preston would react. They would never have done that.

Bonada would have gone to Brunswick Juventus if Preston had signed a striker. Preston had too many midfielders but no strikers.
 
southmelb said:
Bonada will never play for us again so the loan deal hints that we were just as desperate to offload him on the final day as what Preston were to get someone in.

Eggs on our faces now that we know Preston didnt pay a transfer. Its a free hit to take a look at him for 6 months, if hes a hit they make it permanent on a free transfer, if hes shit they just dump him.

Ridiculous that we couldnt engineer a transfer with juve who are willing to pay transfer fees.
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Lot of assumptions there... rumour or fact?
 
SMFC1959 said:
What was the point of playing the youth players for so many matches to then just release them in early July? It doesn't make sense. If a youth player is offered a contract by another club to play senior football - then no issue and best of luck to the kid. But the way we've done it is very peculiar. It poses questions around our strategy to develop youth players to make it to the senior team.
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From what I hear... the only strategy is for envelopes to find the right pockets.
 
SMFC1959 said:
I'd be curious to know if the shoe was on the other foot, how Preston would react. They would never have done that.

Bonada would have gone to Brunswick Juventus if Preston had signed a striker. Preston had too many midfielders but no strikers.
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Exactly right, hence not sure what all the anxiety is about... Its a desperation last minute bargain buy from Preston and are we sure money didnt change hands somewhere as a few people now are saying it did?.

Zoki doesn't set up with a harrying striker like Bonada and will struggle to fit him in to the system I predict. Either way what do WE have to fear, a player who was starting to get disruptive to the squad is now out on loan, we dont have to meet his pay expectations and if we want him back we can decide in December.. I see it as win win.
 
Hope you dont mind me opening up a can of worms !

But how is Bul able to play for South Melbourne ? He has played for two clubs already this registration window. This will be the third and I was under the impression you could only play for a maximum of two clubs ?
 
TheAgent said:
Hope you dont mind me opening up a can of worms !

But how is Bul able to play for South Melbourne ? He has played for two clubs already this registration window. This will be the third and I was under the impression you could only play for a maximum of two clubs ?
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I put this query in Gemini, so I cant claim to have the background knowledge.

A player may play for a third club in the same season if they are transferring between leagues with overlapping, non-aligned seasons.
Because Juach is moving back to Australia during the mid-season registration window, FIFA treats the calendars as distinct but overlapping periods. Since Juach mutually terminated his contract with Pacific FC, he is fully cleared to suit up for South Melbourne's run-in across the NPL Victoria, Australia Cup, and Australian Championship.
 
That would explain it, could you send me the link or source to that information so that i could have a read for myself ?
 
The signings of Retre and Juach were much needed. I'm hoping Yoo turns out to be handy. As for the other names, Ramazani is only temporary and the other 2 players are kids.

Overall, the club did well in the transfer window. I would not have released O'Sullivan or Leech, as they were handy bench players could help with the rotation.
 
TheAgent said:
Hope you dont mind me opening up a can of worms !

But how is Bul able to play for South Melbourne ? He has played for two clubs already this registration window. This will be the third and I was under the impression you could only play for a maximum of two clubs ?
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So, which one of your players didn't we agree to terms on?
 
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