Usain Bolt!

[Timmah]

I was gonna put this in the squad thread but I feel like this is kinda it's own beast?

Huge if true.

 

[sydmariner]

I was gonna put this in the squad thread but I feel like this is kinda it's own beast?

Huge if true.

well he does have the speed that we need.

 

[Timmah]

Reading the little cutout text, it looks like he's coming for a six-week trial, which if successful could be a season long signing. Very interesting.

 

[pjennings]

Consider the source. When was the last time the Daily Telegraph got anything correct about CCMFC?

 

[JoyfulPenguin]

The Daily Telegraph is gutter trash, I highly doubt this actually happening. If it is well, Sean/Charlesworth I am deeply disappointed. I cannot see this being a decision made by Mike Mulvey or any of our football department. I guess the singular positive, if it is actually happening, is we get a ton of relatively free publicity if only publicity on how unbelievably shit we are.

 

[Timmah]

If this tweet from Shaun is anything to go by, it looks real...

 

[Rowdy]

Surely this cant be Mike Phelan's first bit of handywork for CCM ? Could it ??

- Bolt was constantly talking up his msg's to Sir Alex, hitting him up for a trial at ManU .... whilst Phelan was by his side.

I'm thinking there could be some small truth to this from the normally shite Terrorgraph.

 

[JoyfulPenguin]

If this tweet from Shaun is anything to go by, it looks real...

Please god no

 

[JoyfulPenguin]

We would be using a bloody visa spot on him as well! For the love of all that is holy please Shaun no!

 

[Timmah]

@JoyfulPenguin chill, it's a six week audition, says so on the front page.

If he makes the cut then we cross that bridge?

 

[pjennings]

Surely this cant be Mike Phelan's first bit of handywork for CCM ? Could it ??

- Bolt was constantly talking up his msg's to Sir Alex, hitting him up for a trial at ManU .... whilst Phelan was by his side.

I'm thinking there could be some small truth to this from the normally shite Terrorgraph.

Mike is the Sporting Director. The COE is being transformed to cater for Athletics.

 

[Timmah]

Mike is the Sporting Director. The COE is being transformed to cater for Athletics.

Central Coast Athletic FC

 

[midfielder]

For the love of the holy mother Mary please let this be a joke.

 

[Rowdy]

Mike is the Sporting Director. The COE is being transformed to cater for Athletics.

Athletics ??? .....

 

[JoyfulPenguin]

@JoyfulPenguin chill, it's a six week audition, says so on the front page.

If he makes the cut then we cross that bridge?

We shouldn't be giving all expenses paid trials to celebrities. Give to someone who actually earned it, fought for it and slogged for it. Give it to an NPL player who has fought tooth and nail to try and forge a way to the professional level while working full time. Give to someone who truly bloody deserves it and has worked, week in week out their whole bloody life. This makes my blood boil, players across the country sacrifice so much to get a quarter of the opportunity he is getting and he can swan on in?

 

[Rowdy]

Dear @Shaun Mielekamp

... If you're seriously going to pull this 'Bolt' deal off you should be hitting Optus up with this pitch.
- (& I'm being serious, as have daydreamed about having them as major sponsor & possibillities for over a decade)

Optus .... Yes :
A) Pay Bolts wages !!
- the minimum A-League requires
...... the guy doesn't need the ca$h, he's rolling in it.

In fact it would make more marketing sense for Bolt (& CCM) to accept THAT $min. figure ... to show how ...
(Headline reads)

"Bolt is Fair Dinkum about Football
- playing for $65k ALeague min. contract"
('Fair Dinkum' - yes ... you can use that as well .... overseas TV networks & papers WILL)

B) Optus/Yes .... NOW become our NEW major sponsor, their Aqua & Yellow font will 'pop' on our jerseys
- on a multi-year deal (min x3 ... that's the price/commitment req'd for the cross marketing of the Optus brand with Bolt now sporting our CCM jersey in their Optus NBN adverts)

Are Optus really committed to Football here in Australia ???

C) Optus cover the cost of a 'proper $750+k Marquee Player for every year of the 3 multi-year sponsorship deal '
- Fcuck it- make it a cool $1Million !
.... if they can afford to throw ca$h at the 2018 WC ...... & FCUK that up !!
..... then they can afford to back Bolt & CCM @ that comparitively cheap price.

Would love to see someone mock up both of our jerseys with Optus sponsor, as they seriously need to start kicking goals after their massive PR fail in handing back WC coverage to SBS after paying $8 MILLION DOLLARS for it.

.... well .... here's THAT opportunity.

 

[Rowdy]

& again
If we're not paying Usain Bolt A-League minimum $65k, then ...

 

[Rowdy]

If anyone has acess to Daily Telegraph exclusive story tommorrow morning today, can they plz 'cut&paste' onto here,
- NOT provide links, as they just paywall their shit
.... especially their exclusive shit
.... such as this shit.

Taa, Roddy.

 

[Holy]

So Usain dream is to play football. I hope Jarryd Hayne doesn't have that dream tonight

 

[Rowdy]

& so the Circus begins ....

USAIN BOLT IN SHOCK A-LEAGUE MOVE:


Eight-time Olympic gold medallist Usain Bolt is said to be making a shock move to the A-League in a bid to realise his dream of playing professional football.

News Corp is reporting that the retired sprinter is headed to the Central Coast Mariners where he'll undertake a six-week trial that could lead to a season-long signing.

If so, it's a more modest destination to his much-publicised ambition of playing for iconic English side, Manchester United.

The cash-strapped Mariners collected the wooden spoon in last season's campaign and have been rebuilding under new coach Mike Mulvey.

On Monday they announced that former right hand man to Sir Alex Ferguson at United, Mike Phelan, has been appointed as their new Sporting Director.


Bolt in action during an exhibition match in Paris last month

Once the fastest man on the planet, the 31-year-old Bolt played for Norwegian side Stromsgodset in a friendly against Norway's U19s earlier in this year.

In June he featured in an exhibition football match between France's 1998 World Cup team and a FIFA 98 that included former international players. He has also played in Soccer Aid for UNICEF 2018 - a match between England and The Rest of the World at Old Trafford.

But his post-athletics dreams have not been confined to football. In the past the Jamaican has expressed interest in playing pro basketball and in cricket's Big Bash League.