Stuck behind a paywall on the Australian too, the bet that people would pay to have their confirmation bias confirmed that the glory are still a run time joke may yet pay off or no one really cares lol
One bizarre outcome is James Johnson is now the largest owner of LFE token 
The A-League’s plans to restart the season on July 16 have been overshadowed by the revelation that Football Federation Australia has been forced to loan Perth Glory a substantial sum to clear its debts to its players.
As the league announced its first two fixtures of a whistlestop schedule to complete the campaign, and A-League boss Greg O’Rourke said that talks with broadcaster Fox Sports over a revised TV deal had moved into positive territory, the precarious nature of some clubs’ finances meant a number of players will have to wait days to be paid.
Perth CEO Tony Pignata told The Australian that his players would receive their entitlements on Wednesday now that money had been loaned from FFA.
JOHN LETHLEAN
Let the choux revival begin. Again
JOHN LETHLEAN
The Australian understands that Perth owe a significant portion of the near $1m in leave, superannuation and other matters that the clubs had promised to clear by Wednesday under the short-term pay deal struck to finish the season.
Privately several clubs have noted that they have to pay entitlements to players despite reduced TV income and the loss of gate takings and match-day income. A number of clubs have received loans from FFA in the past to cover cashflow problems.
The Mariners, meanwhile, say they will pay entitlements and the first round of wages due under the new pay deal on Friday, after distribution of TV money from FFA was held up until Tuesday while final touches were put to the pay deal.
However, the players union (PFA) made clear that none of its members are obligated to return to training until money has been received, meaning the Mariners’ squad may have to wait until next week to begin preparations for the season’s resumption.
“The arrangement is clear,” said PFA CEO John Didulica. “All historic overdue payments need to be paid in full before training commences.”
O’Rourke said that talks between FFA and Fox were “progressing well” over both the finish of this season, and the remaining three years of their deal.
“There’s been good dialogue and we’re working through both the return to play and future years,” he said. “We’re hoping these matters will be resolved in the next few weeks.
“Our intent is to have the season completed and broadcast by Fox, we’re not really working towards a Plan B.”
The schedule for the resumption of this season will begin on 16 July with Melbourne Victory against Western United at AAMI Park, followed by Sydney FC v Wellington the next day at Jubilee Stadium.
The rest of the schedule is dependent at least in terms of venues on the potential relaxation of border restrictions, which could allow more teams to play at their home venues rather than be based at a hub in Sydney and Newcastle. It’s also hoped that some form of crowd will be permitted, with the government to allow venues to admit up to 25 per cent of their capacity as well as corporate guests.
FFA declined to answer questions about loans to clubs.
I thought Perth were owned by a mining magnate?
He lost it all on bitcoin
Tony P had a rant about this on Twitter. Seems like the money was meant to go to Perth anyway from the TV revenue, which as the article said was “held up until Tuesday while final touches were put to the pay deal.” So the FFA have given Perth a down payment on money the FFA owes to them - not quite a loan?
Fuck that - what’s this about choux?
That’s the real story
Apparently Popovic is leaving after Corica taught him a lesson with Greek side Xanthi apparently his next destination.
We broke Poppa & Musky
Had a look at Xanthi’s wiki and there’s only one vacant position in staff…
Under 15’s Coach please make it so!
Not sure about the Greek League but looks like the clubs about to be relegated in any case?
Xanthi’s new president is ex-Sydney Olympic president so that probably explains it sort of?
Also, maybe they need a few moderately talented brothers on their books?
Is Xanthi the Greek word for nepotism?
It’s good to see Popa has learned his lesson from the way he departed WSW. At least he waited until 1 minute after the season finished rather than 1 minute before it began.
Fair play to Poppa for having a go at it in Europe, but he doesn’t seem to make great choices in terms of finding destinations with stability and proper prospects for being given the chance to do something.
And yes, I’m probably submitting to the usual cliches about the Greek league, which I really don’t know much about.
Is he taking Zeljko with him again? Hopefully it last longer than 8 weeks this time.
Sounds like its happening
I’m enjoying this whole beating teams in semi finals and then watching them capitulate as a club.
It would be good to implode Wests in next year’s semi final but I just can’t see them making the finals.
How do you implode something that’s already been imploded for 5 years?
Turn it into a black hole?
In our case Popa and Jacob Burns, our football director, interviewed each player individually and got them to sign off on the paperwork.
"Our captain, Castro, was last on the list and was thought to be the easiest as he was the leader.
"After two minutes he threw the contract at both Burns and Popa. Tony Pignata also tried to chat to him. It was beneath him to play for less than his contract despite 99% of A-League players signing. The players did not like his attitude or decision either so Popa asked him not to train and he did not. He then went on a holiday and now he is trying to defend his position and presumably sue the club.