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Ah, that was it, thanks. I remember fuming at the time! Between that, the briefly-enforced Perez rule, and the one night only 'VAR can upgrade yellows to reds' decision, there's no club that comes close to us for being uniquely shafted by the FFA.
He had promise at city but hasn’t done anything recently
Anyone else’s heart stop when reading Tom will move. The relief when the answer was further up the field
I remember watching Rose play for the first time in a preseason trial, I think against the Jets in Mudgee. He must have been seventeen and played as a number six with incredible maturity, and I tipped him to be a Socceroos regular within five years. I still think he is a great little footballer, and I'll be gutted if we lose him for nothing.
Oh don't get me wrong I'm more than happy to have Liam Rose and have signed him for a long time, personally would have preferred to have signed him longer. He has demonstrated ability at A-League level and it was Okon's decision to extend his contract. What I have a problem with is the signing of Adam Berry, an unproven defensive midfielder fresh out of Leeds United's academy who had never played a senior game, being given a three year deal when John Hutchinson was our caretaker coach, who made that decision and why didn't we wait till we had brought in a new senior coach? Taking away a squad position is a big deal in the A-League, especially for us not always paying the whole salary cap, and we locked in someone for three seasons who was unproven without input from anyone who would be leading our footballing department in those years ahead. Okon is now trying to replace him, and we have Berry (or at least his wage) on our books till the end of next season.
Berry is decent and was very young he’d be on broken biscuits but he was signed after we played Paulo’s Olyroos and week before Paulo. I reckon there might have been some involvement but no proof.
I think Berry is capable of playing A-League and excelling, but Okon certainly doesn't seem to think so based on this season. I just question why he was given a full senior contract for so long if he was just going to play in the academy and make a few appearances off the bench he wasn't and isn't a highly sort after player .You can do what he has done with a youth contract and then we have an extra spot for a senior player at no extra cost to us.
It’s not how we roll. Young and cheap to fill out the squad. I think alot of teams do this.
On scholarships outside the cap not inside, when we need to spend the cap as best we can. All I am saying is we could have had Berry and an additional player for nearly the same cost or payed a little bit better to get a better quality of player and had one less player in the squad. That $55,000 could have helped us compete financially for Wilkinson/Vidosic/Blackwood and maybe even have helped us keep Galloway or O'Donovan.
