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Mariners Squad - HAL 13 - 2017- 2018
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Forum Phoenix
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History suggests he may have been close but was deemed not good enough to be a La Liga striker. I think that would be perfect recruitment strategy and targeting by Paolo. Very likely an upgrade on Roy. I expect better feet but a lesser headbutt. If it's him, very good prospect imho.
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Darren Clear
Member
Looks like a genuine goal poacher from his Las Palmas highlights
Forum Phoenix
Well-Known Member
Some nice goals there.
Forum Phoenix
Well-Known Member
scottmac
Suspended
Looks like he use his head too. Cahill around the same size.
finally retired
Well-Known Member
me too....and I'm supposed to be retired
Those crosses will be low across the goal mouth tap ins. The ones Roy wasn't in position for or was offside
If it his him I'm worried about his size but a little genius called Fornarolli hasn't done to bad.
Capn Gus Bloodbeard
Well-Known Member
So does this mean we could have a little bit of flair up front?
Gratis
Well-Known Member
I'm sure we've all already seen by now...but...
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Welcome to the Mariners family, Asdrúbal!
Friday, 28 July 2017 -
@CCMariners
The Central Coast Mariners are excited to announce the signing of 26-year-old Spanish striker, ‘Asdrúbal’ who has put pen to paper a one-year-deal ahead of the Hyundai A-League 2017/18 season.
Asdrúbal arrives on the Central Coast with an impressive CV having played most of his career in Spain with his home town club, ‘UD Las Palmas’ who are based in the Canary Islands.
The potent attacker initially established himself in ‘Las Palmas B’ where he racked up an impressive 26 goals in 77 appearances
In 2014 Asdrúbal was promoted to the club’s first team and handed the honour of wearing the number 9 jersey where it took his side just 12 months to earn promotion into Spain’s top tier to play La Liga football.
image: http://images.performgroup.com/di/library/Central_Coast_Mariners/4d/ea/asdrubal_1psb4c8hozfzi1gedy9u8ykze4.jpg?t=-2086225891
During the 2015/16 campaign, Asdrúbal went on loan to Spanish club ‘CD Leganés’ and again earned promotion to the Spanish La Liga before returning to his parent club.
The hard-working Spanish striker completed his medical at the Central Coast Mariners Centre of Excellence on Thursday and is Paul Okon’s 10th recruit of the Hyundai A-League pre-season. Asdrúbal was also greeted by a familiar face in fellow countryman, Alan Baro whom he played against when Baro was with ‘SD Ponferradina’ between 2013-15.
Asdrúbal is known for his incredible goal scoring ability which was highlighted by an impressive bicycle kick he scored in the 2014 Copa Del Ray against ‘CD Numancia’ to equalise just before half time.
“I am really happy to be here playing for the Central Coast Mariners,” Asdrúbal said. “This is a really exciting opportunity for me, I’ve studied a lot about Australia – it seems like a beautiful country. I’ve also seen Central Coast Stadium which looks fantastic.
“The Hyundai A-League is a good competition, it’s a great opportunity for me to establish myself as an important player and my decision to come here is based purely on football but I’m sure this will be a beautiful place to live with my family.
“Obviously scoring goals is fantastic and it’s my number one objective but more importantly what I am all about is work rate. I want to contribute to the whole team; my work rate is something that the fans will see a lot of and my never give up attitude. If goals follow from that, then that’s the bonus.
“Coming from arguably the best league in the world there’s a difference between the two leagues reputations but from what I’ve seen the Hyundai A-League is of high quality and the players are in great physical shape. I’m sure this will prove a challenge for me but hopefully I can draw on the experience having played against superstars in Spain – most importantly nothing changes. I hold the same respect for the league here as I did in Spain. The work rate I will put in won’t be any different, I want to set an example for the younger players in the way I train,” Asdrúbal said.
Paul Okon was delighted to secure the services of a proven Spanish goal scorer and hinted there may be more signings to follow.
“We’ve waited patiently to fill this position, we’ve looked at a lot of strikers and we wanted to make sure we took our time to find the right ‘9’ to complement the way we play and we are sure that we’ve done that,” Okon said. “This is an area we knew we needed to strengthen and we strongly believe that we’ve got that right balance between experienced players in important positions with young players who are going to develop even more by having that experience around them so it’s really exciting times.
“He is 26-years-old which is still quite young but he has La Liga experience, his pedigree is good and he has played in some very good teams – the way he scores goals has really impressed us and it fits into the way we play.
“His work ethic is very good, everyone that we spoke to when we were doing our research all spoke very highly of him as a top professional. In the end, it wasn’t a difficult choice but we wanted to make sure we took our time to be 100 percent certain.
“We have another spot on our roster and again we are looking at our options, we will probably wait until the end of pre-season to further understand which areas we may need to strengthen but for the time being we are content with the numbers and what we’re going to be working with.
“We have Visa positions available and are definitely keen to utilise them if it will add value to our squad,” Okon said.
Hyundai A-League 2017/18 Squad
Goalkeepers: Tom GLOVER, Ben KENNEDY Adam PEARCE
Defenders: Harry ASCROFT, Alan BARO, Antony GOLEC, Jake McGING, Josh ROSE Storm ROUX, Kye ROWLES
Midfielders: Adam BERRY, Daniel De SILVA, Tom HIARIEJ, Blake POWELL, Liam ROSE
Attackers: Asdrúbal, Kwabena APPIAH, Josh BINGHAM, Trent BUHAGIAR, Andrew HOOLE, Connor PAIN
Read more at http://www.ccmariners.com.au/articl...m68if5uw5fx71m8nrvf0zj0l1#okflQLEmaM2v5g1W.99
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Welcome to the Mariners family, Asdrúbal!
Friday, 28 July 2017 -
@CCMariners
The Central Coast Mariners are excited to announce the signing of 26-year-old Spanish striker, ‘Asdrúbal’ who has put pen to paper a one-year-deal ahead of the Hyundai A-League 2017/18 season.
Asdrúbal arrives on the Central Coast with an impressive CV having played most of his career in Spain with his home town club, ‘UD Las Palmas’ who are based in the Canary Islands.
The potent attacker initially established himself in ‘Las Palmas B’ where he racked up an impressive 26 goals in 77 appearances
In 2014 Asdrúbal was promoted to the club’s first team and handed the honour of wearing the number 9 jersey where it took his side just 12 months to earn promotion into Spain’s top tier to play La Liga football.
image: http://images.performgroup.com/di/library/Central_Coast_Mariners/4d/ea/asdrubal_1psb4c8hozfzi1gedy9u8ykze4.jpg?t=-2086225891
During the 2015/16 campaign, Asdrúbal went on loan to Spanish club ‘CD Leganés’ and again earned promotion to the Spanish La Liga before returning to his parent club.
The hard-working Spanish striker completed his medical at the Central Coast Mariners Centre of Excellence on Thursday and is Paul Okon’s 10th recruit of the Hyundai A-League pre-season. Asdrúbal was also greeted by a familiar face in fellow countryman, Alan Baro whom he played against when Baro was with ‘SD Ponferradina’ between 2013-15.
Asdrúbal is known for his incredible goal scoring ability which was highlighted by an impressive bicycle kick he scored in the 2014 Copa Del Ray against ‘CD Numancia’ to equalise just before half time.
“I am really happy to be here playing for the Central Coast Mariners,” Asdrúbal said. “This is a really exciting opportunity for me, I’ve studied a lot about Australia – it seems like a beautiful country. I’ve also seen Central Coast Stadium which looks fantastic.
“The Hyundai A-League is a good competition, it’s a great opportunity for me to establish myself as an important player and my decision to come here is based purely on football but I’m sure this will be a beautiful place to live with my family.
“Obviously scoring goals is fantastic and it’s my number one objective but more importantly what I am all about is work rate. I want to contribute to the whole team; my work rate is something that the fans will see a lot of and my never give up attitude. If goals follow from that, then that’s the bonus.
“Coming from arguably the best league in the world there’s a difference between the two leagues reputations but from what I’ve seen the Hyundai A-League is of high quality and the players are in great physical shape. I’m sure this will prove a challenge for me but hopefully I can draw on the experience having played against superstars in Spain – most importantly nothing changes. I hold the same respect for the league here as I did in Spain. The work rate I will put in won’t be any different, I want to set an example for the younger players in the way I train,” Asdrúbal said.
Paul Okon was delighted to secure the services of a proven Spanish goal scorer and hinted there may be more signings to follow.
“We’ve waited patiently to fill this position, we’ve looked at a lot of strikers and we wanted to make sure we took our time to find the right ‘9’ to complement the way we play and we are sure that we’ve done that,” Okon said. “This is an area we knew we needed to strengthen and we strongly believe that we’ve got that right balance between experienced players in important positions with young players who are going to develop even more by having that experience around them so it’s really exciting times.
“He is 26-years-old which is still quite young but he has La Liga experience, his pedigree is good and he has played in some very good teams – the way he scores goals has really impressed us and it fits into the way we play.
“His work ethic is very good, everyone that we spoke to when we were doing our research all spoke very highly of him as a top professional. In the end, it wasn’t a difficult choice but we wanted to make sure we took our time to be 100 percent certain.
“We have another spot on our roster and again we are looking at our options, we will probably wait until the end of pre-season to further understand which areas we may need to strengthen but for the time being we are content with the numbers and what we’re going to be working with.
“We have Visa positions available and are definitely keen to utilise them if it will add value to our squad,” Okon said.
Hyundai A-League 2017/18 Squad
Goalkeepers: Tom GLOVER, Ben KENNEDY Adam PEARCE
Defenders: Harry ASCROFT, Alan BARO, Antony GOLEC, Jake McGING, Josh ROSE Storm ROUX, Kye ROWLES
Midfielders: Adam BERRY, Daniel De SILVA, Tom HIARIEJ, Blake POWELL, Liam ROSE
Attackers: Asdrúbal, Kwabena APPIAH, Josh BINGHAM, Trent BUHAGIAR, Andrew HOOLE, Connor PAIN
Read more at http://www.ccmariners.com.au/articl...m68if5uw5fx71m8nrvf0zj0l1#okflQLEmaM2v5g1W.99
Capn Gus Bloodbeard
Well-Known Member
Hmm.....only 26 goals in 77 games? Obviously Okon is seeing something not on the stat line and/or thinks those numbers will convert better here. I don't know anything about him but exciting to have a striker signing.
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dibo
Well-Known Member
The goalscorers with a better record than that in this league with at least 20 goals are:
Bruno Fornaroli, Besart Berisha, Jamie Maclaren, Alessandro Del Piero, Diego Castro, Andy Keogh, Shane Smeltz, Sergio van Dijk, Archie Thompson, Adam Taggart, Joel Griffiths, Roy Krishna, Brendon Santalab, Danny Allsopp and John Aloisi.
That's a pretty decent cohort. They're all proper goalscorers. And La Segunda is a pretty decent league.
EDIT - Note that I've changed tune from last night. There's gut feel on numbers and then there's doing straight up comparisons. His numbers look fine to me.
Bruno Fornaroli, Besart Berisha, Jamie Maclaren, Alessandro Del Piero, Diego Castro, Andy Keogh, Shane Smeltz, Sergio van Dijk, Archie Thompson, Adam Taggart, Joel Griffiths, Roy Krishna, Brendon Santalab, Danny Allsopp and John Aloisi.
That's a pretty decent cohort. They're all proper goalscorers. And La Segunda is a pretty decent league.
EDIT - Note that I've changed tune from last night. There's gut feel on numbers and then there's doing straight up comparisons. His numbers look fine to me.
scottmac
Suspended
Shame we haven't been able to see him in action before the cup game. Looks as though he can play right along the front line and into midfield as well which is great.
Not a great scoring record and not a heap of first team game time either. Rarely seems to complete 90 mins when he does start. Hopefully that's because he goes so hard.
I think this is going to be great for him and us. Couldn't quite crack regular first teams in Spain and has something to prove. Has been picked for his style of play more than goal scoring rate I believe.
I can see another signing in the front third coming though he seems too versatile to be pinned as a full time front man and we don't have the people to rotate around during the game
Edit,
My comments based on stats other than for las Palmas b. Didn't see the 26 goals in 77 games stats
Not a great scoring record and not a heap of first team game time either. Rarely seems to complete 90 mins when he does start. Hopefully that's because he goes so hard.
I think this is going to be great for him and us. Couldn't quite crack regular first teams in Spain and has something to prove. Has been picked for his style of play more than goal scoring rate I believe.
I can see another signing in the front third coming though he seems too versatile to be pinned as a full time front man and we don't have the people to rotate around during the game
Edit,
My comments based on stats other than for las Palmas b. Didn't see the 26 goals in 77 games stats
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Pirate Pete
Well-Known Member
Hence the one year deal? See how he goes, but then again it works both ways. He could do well and be off next season.
I would like to think Okon thinks he'll do better here. I haven't taken a good look at his stats, so I'm not sure if he was
getting regular starts. Maybe a run of games might do him good. Looks good in the video.
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