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Australian transfers 26-27 Summer

Quicky said:
Maybe it's Okon.
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It might be two different Okons!

By the next World Cup Gianluca will be 21, and if he continues his current trajectory and opts for Australia he could well be starting for us. Nicoll-Jazuli will be 20 as well and might be worth a look.

Throw in Robertson, and I haven’t been this excited about our youth prospects in my whole life of properly watching Australian football.

We also won’t know who might emerge in the next four years. There’s very few debutants in this World Cup that I would have had earmarked in 2022. Maybe Circati and probably Volpato?
 
Toebash said:
We also won’t know who might emerge in the next four years. There’s very few debutants in this World Cup that I would have had earmarked in 2022. Maybe Circati and probably Volpato?
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Alessandro Circati definitely and both Nestory Irankunda and Mo Toure will continue to be making waves, as will Patrick Beach.
 
Toebash said:
It might be two different Okons!

By the next World Cup Gianluca will be 21, and if he continues his current trajectory and opts for Australia he could well be starting for us. Nicoll-Jazuli will be 20 as well and might be worth a look.

Throw in Robertson, and I haven’t been this excited about our youth prospects in my whole life of properly watching Australian football.

We also won’t know who might emerge in the next four years. There’s very few debutants in this World Cup that I would have had earmarked in 2022. Maybe Circati and probably Volpato?
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Who is Nicoll-Jazuli? have you seen him play?
 
rebelliousfeminist974 said:
Mahdi Nicoll-Jazuli is the promising Australian dual international youth prospect who plys his trade in the Chelsea farm system.
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He’s also got a fair few youth caps for England. Born in Sydney with Sudanese and Australian heritage (like the Yengis) but moved to London quite young.

I haven’t seen him play but I’ve read a bit about him and he’s highly regarded.
 
Even a world cup performance like that from Okon won't satisfy Benfica. They've got lots of good midfielder already. His agent needs to put out the feelers and get him to a club where he'll play every week.
 
Robbos said:
This didn't age well. Hehe.
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Robertson would've gotten the same pass away but the midfield tackling would've been at a very high end for Robertson's work rate.

Thankfully we learned from the game that raw players are capable and can be trusted and too much time has been wasted on recycling the old guard for no gain.
 
JS96 said:
Robertson would've gotten the same pass away but the midfield tackling would've been at a very high end for Robertson's work rate.

Thankfully we learned from the game that raw players are capable and can be trusted and too much time has been wasted on recycling the old guard for no gain.
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100 agree on old players.
I too wanted Robertson in the squad.
However, my thought is that Poppa thought against best teams in the world, picking players with high work rate over skills would be his choice.
 
JS96 said:
Even a world cup performance like that from Okon won't satisfy Benfica. They've got lots of good midfielder already. His agent needs to put out the feelers and get him to a club where he'll play every week.
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Okon-Engstler isn't at Benfica anymore. He signed a 3 year deal with Sydney in July last year.
 
Toebash said:
It might be two different Okons!

By the next World Cup Gianluca will be 21, and if he continues his current trajectory and opts for Australia he could well be starting for us. Nicoll-Jazuli will be 20 as well and might be worth a look.

Throw in Robertson, and I haven’t been this excited about our youth prospects in my whole life of properly watching Australian football.

We also won’t know who might emerge in the next four years. There’s very few debutants in this World Cup that I would have had earmarked in 2022. Maybe Circati and probably Volpato?
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That's surprising. I think Bos, Circati, Volpato, Toure and Irankunda were all very much in the discussions as far back as last World Cup, most fans had them in 2026 squad with Robertson. Of course, back then Circati, Volpato and Robbo hadn't committed to Aus and Irankunda was very young. Toure wasn't playing much as well and still getting injured every game but on talent they were the obvious choices.

Some players just shine over others, like you said Gianluca and Arena (if he commits), are very likely for 2030 already.

The players who have surprised are Italiano and Herrington. I knew about Herrington before the 2022 World Cup because of the Joeys but I would've never thought this would've happened and I didn't rate Italiano until he came into the Socceroos camp last year.

A few years ago, I predicted Younis and Okon Jr in the 2026 WC squad too. They were the two up and coming players I liked, Okon was obvious and Younis was close to making it.
 
Our entire starting lineup will be in Europe and a lot of them in the big 5 leagues after the World Cup. I think we are going to head into the 2027 Asian Cup as a completely transformed team.
 
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