A-League thread

[Judge Roughneck]

How are the haters.going?

[Phil Mrakov]

I hate Soccer but it was good to see Sydney lose in the dying minutes last night.

[tiger101]

Ian Crook 2pm will resign from Sydney FC.

[mightytiges]

Ian Crook 2pm will resign from Sydney FC.

The hype and expectation with ADP arriving appears to have gotten to him. Just shows it's a team game and Sydney's squad is poor. ADP's hammies mean he can't play a full game either.

Victory up to 5th  . We still give up dumb soft goals which hopefully will become less frequent as the team jells more but Ange's gameplan means we'll always be a threat to carve open opposition defences. Stats wise we outplayed and smashed Sydney all night but couldn't score until the floodgates opened in the last 15 minutes.

[one-eyed]

David Beckham could be the next superstar to be playing in the Hyundai A-League - now it's up to Football Federation Australia to make it happen.

With the Major League Soccer competition in America finishing in a fortnight, Fox Sports can reveal the LA Galaxy megastar has been offered to several A-League clubs about the possibility of a potential 10-game guest stint.

But for the move to eventuate, the FFA needs to be on board to support the deal financially.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/top-stories/exclusive-la-galaxy-star-david-beckham-could-be-next-a-league-star-on-a-10-game-guest-stint/story-e6frfkp9-1226518110819#ixzz2CLrwzZ3y


http://www.news.com.au/top-stories/exclusive-la-galaxy-star-david-beckham-could-be-next-a-league-star-on-a-10-game-guest-stint/story-e6frfkp9-1226518110819

[Phil Mrakov]

David Beckham could be the next superstar to be playing in the Hyundai A-League - now it's up to Football Federation Australia to make it happen.

With the Major League Soccer competition in America finishing in a fortnight, Fox Sports can reveal the LA Galaxy megastar has been offered to several A-League clubs about the possibility of a potential 10-game guest stint.

But for the move to eventuate, the FFA needs to be on board to support the deal financially.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/top-stories/exclusive-la-galaxy-star-david-beckham-could-be-next-a-league-star-on-a-10-game-guest-stint/story-e6frfkp9-1226518110819#ixzz2CLrwzZ3y


http://www.news.com.au/top-stories/exclusive-la-galaxy-star-david-beckham-could-be-next-a-league-star-on-a-10-game-guest-stint/story-e6frfkp9-1226518110819

Lol 10 game stint.

[mightytiges]

Lol 10 game stint.

Heart probably couldn't even afford that  .


Anyway Victory finished 2-2 tonight against ladder leader Central Coast divers  . Once they went down to 10-men they just parked the bus to play for the draw. We really missed Archie and Finkler and we'll lose Flores next week after he was sent off with two yellows.

[tiger101]

Didn't David rule out coming to the a-league. I thought thats what they said he said tonight on the news.

[one-eyed]

Didn't David rule out coming to the a-league. I thought thats what they said he said tonight on the news.

He did but Heskey said Aussie Soccer should go after Becks and there's talk the FFA aren't giving up yet. Time will tell.

[Penelope]

 
just like an broke gutter crawler pestering an high class hooker

[mightytiges]

The FFA has announced the new Soccer tv deal. SBS to show one A-league game live every Friday night beginning next season 2013-14. Hopefully they will show all teams equally and not just concentrate on showing the NSW ones and especially Sydney FC  as The World Game show does.

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THE A-LEAGUE will appear on free-to-air television for the first time next season as part of Football Federation Australia’s new four-year $160-million broadcast rights deal, announced in Sydney on Monday.

SBS will enter into a joint partnership with Foxtel that will allow the government broadcaster to show every Friday night A-League match live with all finals matches on a one-hour delay. All of Australia’s World Cup qualifying matches will also be screened on an hour delay.

Foxtel will continue broadcast every game of the A-League live and cover all of the Socceroos matches live over the next four years.

The deal will comprise $148 million in cash in addition to $12 million marketing support. The deal will formally commence on July 1 next year.

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/a-league/sbs-to-show-live-aleague-as-part-of-new-160-million-tv-deal-20121119-29lb9.html#ixzz2CdEuri9l

[tiga]

Apparently Singo is getting in on the act to try and tempt Beckham to the central coast. He has the $$$ and the hutspa to do it and as MT said, the FFA are going hard on this despite the conflicting reports.
 

[mightytiges]

Apparently Singo is getting in on the act to try and tempt Beckham to the central coast. He has the $$$ and the hutspa to do it and as MT said, the FFA are going hard on this despite the conflicting reports.

It'll all come down to pleasing Posh . Give her and Becks a nice house mansion to stay in in a beautiful secluded spot on the central cost during mid-summer and about an hour or so away from the Sydney CBD and it'll be hard for them to say no. The only thing against playing for the Mariners is that under Arnold they aren't the most glamourous team and it's a provincial team. If Becks joined say Perth Glory instead it would have a bigger impact home crowd wise.   

[one-eyed]

A-LEAGUE clubs are set to intensify their bids to lure superstar David Beckham to Australia after the midfielder announced he'll leave LA Galaxy next month.

Western Sydney Wanderers, Central Coast Mariners, Perth and Melbourne Heart and Adelaide are keen to sign Beckham, the 37-year-old said the Major League Soccer (MLS) final against Houston Dynamo on December 1 will be his last game for the Galaxy.

That would potentially open the way for Beckham to play in round 10 of the A-League the following weekend and be available for the remaining 18 regular-season games.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/a-league-interest-spraked-by-david-beckham-leaving-la-galaxy/story-e6frg7mf-1226520302659

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Melbourne Heart will today lodge what it claims is a compelling offer to lure English football star David Beckham to the A-League club.

http://theworldgame.sbs.com.au/news/1129605/Melbourne-Heart-makes-Beckham-offer

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Central Coast Mariners have joined the race to sign David Beckham and have received the backing of entrepeneur, John Singleton, to lure one of the biggest names in sport to arguably the A-League's smallest club.

Mariners football manager, Lawrie McKinna, met with Singleton on Monday to discuss bidding for "Becks" and a potential offer has received the support of chief executive Peter Turnbull.

The Mariners are interested in bringing Beckham to Bluetongue Stadium on a 10-match guest stint and Fairfax Media understands that the club is entertaining two options on where to accommodate Posh and Becks.

Singleton is prepared to house the Beckhams in his eight-bedroom holiday mansion in Killcare, which he usually rents for up to $2500 per night.

It's understood that Beckham's preference is for a major city in Australia and the Mariners are also looking into accommodating him and his family in a luxury hotel in Sydney and Singleton may even provide the use of his helicopter to transport Beckham to the Mariners training ground.

http://www.monashweekly.com.au/story/1133795/central-coast-mariners-use-singos-beach-house-as-beckham-bait/?cs=12

[tiger101]

Beckham is holding a press conference later today in America. I wonder if he will drop any hints on if his looking at playing some games here.