David? Ninkovic from Perth SC was trialling with Falkirk. Mixed reports on how he went. Don't know if he's been offered a contract.

Auckland do not qualify for ACL.

Ryan Strain signed for Falkirk who play in the Scottish Premiership.

Robertson will be in the Championship this season with Cardiff City. Promoted from L1 last season.

If they really have money problems, how much is Ange pocketing? https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/ange-postecoglou-plunged-saudi-turmoil-37450198 Earlier speculation...

Some love for Harry: https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/16547155/daizen-maeda-names-celtic-coach-transformed-game-transfer/ I remember Maeda praising him at the time, when HK was on Ange's coaching staff.

I've had high hopes for him but he needs to kick on this season. Last season derailed by injury. Fingers crossed that's behind him now.

They are a yo-yo club but hopefully they can have a decent stay in the top division this time. They topped the L2 table last season.

I stated before the WC that we would need luck with injuries if to progress to last 16 or beyond, and we didn't get that. Injuries in the key wingback positions where we had big drop-offs really hurt us. I'm reluctant to include Toure on the injury list since I've seen plenty of speculation that...

John Aloisi perhaps the most natural choice but he's killing it in China atm so might be getting some attractive offers at season's end. No idea what sort of coin he's currently earning but probably very decent.

Milligan a bit too soon, imo.

Yes, I don't see an obvious successor to Popa, who I think has done reasonably well in any case. Corica, just joined Yokohama, don't see it happening. Muscat, my feeling is that he would prefer another crack at Europe. Stanton has some credentials but would be a punt. Cklamovski just signed with...

If Popa goes with the same formation, I'd like to see any one of Raphael, Younis and perhaps Velupillay paired with Italiano for the rwb spot. Gun to my head I might have a slight leaning towards Raphael, depending on club minutes and form. However, if Miller is back playing by the time the AC...

I guess you could say the same about Bos and Italiano - that they had never played as lone wide players - until selected by Popa.

Maybe I've underestimated Elder. Here he says he likes to get up and down the pitch: https://vitalfootball.co.uk/city-sign-former-hull-city-derby-county-left-back/ And I think he did play at least some of last season at lwb. Generally well regarded at Derby for his crossing. To my knowledge...

Elder certainly would help with set-pieces. However, I don't see Elder bombing up and down the left-side in Popa's system. I think he's more of a stand and deliver type. Better suited in Arnie's teams, imo.

Not a natural fit imo but hopefully will get decent minutes with McInnes in charge. If he was younger I would have preferred he went to stronger mls league but at his age probably now more about trophies and salary. Sacrifices Hearts-legend status with this move I'd guess.

What might have been. Egypt, Argentina and Switzerland all very beatable imo. Popa has, afaik, improved every club he's gone to and the Socceroos also when he took over from Arnie so credit to him for that. I guess I have similar frustrations to others in that he looks like he sets teams up not...

I hope this goes well for him because I think he is a talent but it does make me a bit nervous when wide players go to J-League. Japan has a production line of good wide players. Imo his best position would be as RCF in the formation that Popa favours but as it's not that common probably...

I probably would have shifted O'Neill to rwb. He's comfortably quicker than Trewin I think. Bring on Okon-E into midfield and maybe Trewin later into midfield. Or just play Geria.

By all accounts he's improved in that area. I get the feeling though that he was the last player Popa selected for the squad.

I don't think Popa trusts his passing. The popaball analysis posted here a few days ago underlines the importance of secure passing in Popa's system.

Italiano I mean

Injury to possibly the player we could least afford to lose. Not our best player but that really hurt us.

That's going to be interesting watching CR7 and some of the other older imports try to play high octane Angeball.

Puzzling why Hrustic didn't put his hand up. Toure not as much because I question how well he carries the weight of expectation ever since he apparently had a poor Olyroos? Asian finals when he missed many chances. Maybe coincidental but it's a watch and see. Can improve with age.

Strange that Soutrar and Herrington rather than Toure and Hrustic.

Yeah, I'm no expert on keeping but it looked that way to me too.