ALM Squad Speculation Thread 2024/25 (Part 2)

Decent signing I’d say. Five first team league appearances late in the season and one in the cup, all off the bench. Was a regular for the youth team there until he was promoted to the first team.

Hard to know quite where he fits in, presumably getting Kamijo’s time at the very least.

It’s nice to see they’re doing some decent research into players as well. Never heard of the kid before this

Also good to see us getting signings in early

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He’s ex-youth, not unknown

It did feel that he left Macarthur way too early.

I know precisely zero about this lad, but judging from how they describing him in the article, is it safe to say he’s probably the Caceras replacement, as opposed to a more defensive midfielder?

If Sydney of all clubs, with its members/attendances/sponsors/transfers, needs to be signing completely unproven kids to directly replace high-performing Socceroos for financial reasons, then this league is bankrupt.

We shouldn’t even go through this charade of an off-season and just call it a day.

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Caceres support rather than replacement surely.

Youlley, Kamijo and Quintal are all in the U20s for the Argentina games so will be interesting to see the minutes each get and in what roles.

I’m losing more and more hope each day of us keeping Caceras.

He could possibly be Sena support instead if we do the competent thing and sign a quality CDM destroyer to play alongside someone like Sena.

But my faith in any competence from this administration has waned significantly after the ā€˜we’re keeping Uffie, this season was a rebuild season’ debacle. So who bloody knows anymore.

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Also means they likely miss a fair chunk of the preseason with the U20 national team. U20 world cup runs to mid October.

or we’ve just signed a young player with a bit of talent and want to make sure he’s ours??? Caceras hasn’t actually left yet…

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Inspirational recovery story of a player who makes it back after 4 years in WSW academy,.

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He must’ve graduated after carrying his toiletry bag under the correct arm.

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He was playing in the Belgium top tier though and actually getting time on the pitch. Part of me thinks he wouldn’t have come back to Australia to sit on the bench as an understudy. Maybe im reading the situation wrong, maybe not. I guess we’ll see.

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And thinking into the regrettable but likely inevitable loss of Sega, 3 years is a good contract length. Keeping in mind Sega was only in the dutch 2nd division which is surely a lower standard than the belgian league, and look what he acheived here.

I reckon Caceres is gone also.

Remember when we signed amanatidis as this next big talent?

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