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Australian transfers 26-27 Summer

Barca4life said:
Really encouraging to see our players linked to big leagues all over Europe, im hoping we evolve to the stage and we start to see our players move away from these 2nd division or 3rd of 4th tiers leagues into the top divisions especially that their clubs are able to compete in continental leagues.
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There are also 30 - 40 big clubs outside the Big Five in UEFA, who play a fair bit of Champ League and Europa League match comp intra-continental football.

Bos's Feyenoorde is one of them.
 
rebelliousfeminist974 said:
Alessandro Circati is going fairly well at Parma though.
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It's an exception because he was raised there. Most Australians without Italian heritage get treated like dirt. They have big benches which gives the manager too much opportunity to rotate and the second half of the table simply exist to make up the numbers and are a waste of time every season.
 
Bunch_of_hacks said:
Hes dominated at 2 world cups now, has premier league experience on his cv and a previous big transfer fee. Thats enough for a lowly serie A side coach to give him an extended run of games and we all know harry is easily good enough for that level. Italian league suits a low block defender like him, he'll be fine amd it will be a good move, injury gods permitting.
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His performances at the WC should supersede Serie A - whose 50% of Italian domestic players cannot even qualify for the last 3 WCs, despite winning a Euro Champs in between.

Colombia, USA, Japan, Turkey, Canada, USA, Paraguay and Egypt have been tougher competition than the mid- ranked and lower ranked Serie A clubs.
 
JS96 said:
It's an exception because he was raised there. Most Australians without Italian heritage get treated like dirt. They have big benches which gives the manager too much opportunity to rotate and the second half of the table simply exist to make up the numbers and are a waste of time every season.
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Depressing to read this, JS.
 
Bunch_of_hacks said:
Hes dominated at 2 world cups now, has premier league experience on his cv and a previous big transfer fee. Thats enough for a lowly serie A side coach to give him an extended run of games and we all know harry is easily good enough for that level. Italian league suits a low block defender like him, he'll be fine amd it will be a good move, injury gods permitting.
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I'm not suggesting he isn't good enough but Italy is just less ideal as Italy has numerous factors such as big benches, cultural differences and an ad hoc survival mentality that is devoid of building anything up. We saw it with Hrustic. The Sainbury saga should never have happened. Souttar is likely to be fine there but England or Germany would be better.
 
Quicky said:
There's been a lot of discussion about the quality of leagues and clubs our players play at. This is shaping up as a really interesting transfer period.

Circati (Atletico, PSG) and Herrington (Barcelona, Liverpool, you name it) have both been rumoured targets of top top teams in big 5 leagues.

Beach (Troyes) has moved to a top 5 league. Circati (Palma) and Volpato (Sassuolo, rumoured Fiorentina) are already there.

Ryan, Okon-Engstler (Koln), Souttar (Cagliari) are strongly rumoured to make transfers to teams in big 5 leagues.

Irankunda (Sporting Lisbon), Devlin (Rangers) and Bos (Feyenoord) are at or rumoured to be at big clubs with European pedigree.

Irvine goes down. It's unknowm where Metcalfe will land.

Theres water to go under the bridge and who knows how the cards will fall but its encouraging.

Whats wild is we knew the qualities of these guys. If they make the moves rumoured I don't think we're inherently more talented than what we were at the World Cup. But we'd look better on paper. I think this team is capable of more than we've seen from them.
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I feel optimistic reading this post!

A few players going to new clubs don't go into starting line ups immediately though.
 
grazorblade said:
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Well that shows they're damn serious. Will he be alright with the language and cultural barrier along with his attitude? The trouble is as a foreigner you don't get much leeway with stepping out of line and they have the buying power and production line to replace him in a heartbeat.
 
Decentric said:
There are also 30 - 40 big clubs outside the Big Five in UEFA, who play a fair bit of Champ League and Europa League match comp intra-continental football.

Bos's Feyenoorde is one of them.
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Spot on.Playing for a Feyenoord, or even more so an Ajax or Sporting is indicative of a player being a WAYYYY higher level than playing at say Troyes or St Pauli, even if troyes and st pauli are/were in top 5 leagues
 
JS96 said:
I'm not suggesting he isn't good enough but Italy is just less ideal as Italy has numerous factors such as big benches, cultural differences and an ad hoc survival mentality that is devoid of building anything up. We saw it with Hrustic. The Sainbury saga should never have happened. Souttar is likely to be fine there but England or Germany would be better.
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Souttar has much more compelling cv than Sainsbury did, and even more so than that, Sainsbury wemt to Inter, Souttar going to Cagliari... big big difference!!
 
JS96 said:
Well that shows they're damn serious. Will he be alright with the language and cultural barrier along with his attitude? The trouble is as a foreigner you don't get much leeway with stepping out of line and they have the buying power and production line to replace him in a heartbeat.
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I speak a little Portuguese so was excited to go there to practice on my roadtrip after driving to Bilbao for the Ange Europa League Final.

To my disappointment found out that most Portuguese speak fluent English.. their government made it the official 2nd language like India, a generation ago. Very different to Spain where barely anyone speaks English.

He will have zero problem, and the weather there is like Sydneys. Possibly the best city to play in in the entire world when you combine the club, weather, culture, people etc.
 
Quicky said:
+$20 million suggests they rate him.
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I’d read less into that, he isn’t coming from Adelaide United.

That sort of money is what it takes to pry a young talent away from the Championship. Even more than that in many cases.

Not saying they don’t rate him, but that’s more the English tax.
 
JS96 said:
Well that shows they're damn serious. Will he be alright with the language and cultural barrier along with his attitude? The trouble is as a foreigner you don't get much leeway with stepping out of line and they have the buying power and production line to replace him in a heartbeat.
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On language, Marcus Edward’s played for Sporting and as far as I know he doesn’t speak Portuguese.
 
Bunch_of_hacks said:
I speak a little Portuguese so was excited to go there to practice on my roadtrip after driving to Bilbao for the Ange Europa League Final.

To my disappointment found out that most Portuguese speak fluent English.. their government made it the official 2nd language like India, a generation ago. Very different to Spain where barely anyone speaks English.

He will have zero problem, and the weather there is like Sydneys. Possibly the best city to play in in the entire world when you combine the club, weather, culture, people etc.
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These are good signs but he has to behave himself and fit into the culture. I hope there is good mentoring around him and we don't see a dummy spit. Massive move.
 
Bunch_of_hacks said:
Souttar has much more compelling cv than Sainsbury did, and even more so than that, Sainsbury wemt to Inter, Souttar going to Cagliari... big big difference!!
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It's not that he's incapable rather it's the precarious nature of lower table Italian clubs. Souttar has made his mark at another world cup but we need to remember the stupid shit he had to go through even while fit at Leicester.

I stated the Sainsbury episode was a stunt but ironically Inter were shit defensively and he was actually work at a shot given his calibre at the time.
 
JS96 said:
It's an exception because he was raised there. Most Australians without Italian heritage get treated like dirt. They have big benches which gives the manager too much opportunity to rotate and the second half of the table simply exist to make up the numbers and are a waste of time every season.
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Circati was born in Italy but then moved to Perth at age 1. Then didn't go back until he was 17 or 18 so he was definitely raised in Australia.
 
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