https://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/control-of-a-league-club-stripped-from-businessman-alleged-to-have-stolen-millions-from-scott-pendlebury-20260602-p6031m.html

Stoked that Tete Yengi got in. Interested to see what he can in a Socceroos shirt.

Volpato flew all the way to Oz to fix his passport to be able to play. https://football360.com.au/socceroos-news-cristian-volpato-maty-ryan-details-latest-final-squad/

Surely we will be fine. If he gets minutes in the World Cup he is locked. Both Lynch and Garb saying it looks like he is in the squad. It makes zero sense for him to fly in for a sunny walk around Pasadena and then be cut and flying out less than 48 hours later. If Poppa did that it would...

So we have Mitch duke to thank for Volpato switching?

Top story on News.com.au https://www.news.com.au/sport/football/cristian-volpato-crawls-back-to-australia-after-italy-snub-ahead-of-world-cup/news-story/bbcc577ff7119652ae34ae2bb9ee620b

Garb was hinting at switch earlier. This speaks to the pressure being put on him.

Who was pressuring him?

Huge news. Def adds to our quality. Clearly conversations have been happening in the background for this to happen. He wouldn’t be included in the train on squad after cracking it at Italy’s latest squad. Things take time.

Almost fell of my chair

I would be happy with Milligan and him bringing in some of the Newcastle boys. I wonder if Adam’s transfer had a return clause in it?

Yes, the calibre of some of Tuchel’s omissions for England put the Robertson scenario into perspective.

I wasn’t suggesting that we were successful in getting arena and Volpato just that Poppa had course corrected in approaching them to play for Oz when he said he wouldn’t do that. Plus isn’t Robertson tied to us for three years because Poppa played him in the recent friendly?

I am not saying I agree with him but my sense is re Robertson is that Poppa sees him as one for the future. And following the Sega and Triantis situations brought him and played him for a short spell to lock him in. I also think with his Scotland talk he brought in Bennie to camp to make him...

Robertson and a bunch of others are going home. Yengi coming in https://socceroos.com.au/news/commbank-socceroos-announce-eight-additions-fifa-world-cup-2026tm-train-squad

We never got to do the Jing Reec goal pitch invasion.

While I think Poppa deserves criticism for his handling of Segacic and Triantis, I wonder if we are seeing a course correction. We forget that Poppa has bosses, who will outlast his reign, and will want to see the best players playing for the national team. Has pressure come from above...

Leonard, with two Scottish parents, is another dual international. Good to see him in camp and us being proactive again.

Weirdly I was sure he was dead too.