Take Rodwell money and load up a long contract for Matthews. CB sorted
Take Rodwell money and load up a long contract for Matthews. CB sorted
I think youāre all overlooking how much there will be to spend on visa spots next year.
Weāre not going to spend the same amount of money if thereās less money coming in from the APL.
Thereās a player here who wants to stay in Sydney. Make him stay on our terms.
Iād apply the same condition to Robbie Mak.
I canāt see us, or the league in general, getting anyone better.
The problem with a performance based contract with our salary capped league is that if the performance/appearance metrics are met then you have to cater for that in the cap anyway. So we basically end up downgrading our cap for this weird gamble on an injury prone player taking up a visa spot. We got 1500 odd minutes out of him over 2 seasons. Less than 20 full games out of around 60.
That sounds like itās a pretty easy budget to make.
Factor in his minutes prior to coming to us and you can gauge an even more accurate figure.
We often factor in cap space for a January signing. If Rodwell has made it that far into the season as a regular player then we move him to a designated slot and donāt sign anyone.
Or we can sign someone that can play 30 games?
Geez people are talking about keeping Rodwell now?
Doesnāt matter.
Heād need citizenship.
You canāt just move a player into a designated spotā¦ The top two earners in your team are set as designated players, then you have the Aussie designated, youth and all the other exemptions.
Thank you. I thought everyone else were losing their minds, honestly.
The way I see it, Iād rather someone slightly worse than Rodwell that doesnāt get injured. Rodwell being injured last year especially, meant we were dealing with one of the most makeshift defensive lines weāve had in years. Iād rather someone that can simply play, that doesnāt require us having to throw half ready youth into starting lineups.
Just to be clear Iām not saying we should sign Rodwell, just that with 5 visa spots we can afford to take a bit of a gamble with one spot if we really want the player around.
If they donāt want him then no problem.
Considering Lolley is the only guaranteed foreigner next year, weāre going to be taking a gamble with up to 4 Visa spots no matter what we do. With Rodwell, is it a gamble? Heās been in Australia for 3 years now. Here are his minutes:
Year 1: 827 (managed to play 5 90 minute games)
Year 2: 1175 (managed to play 8 90 minute games) This number is inflated as he also played League Cup
Year 3: 516 (managed to play 1 90 minute game)
I mean thatās not a gamble, thatās just an absolutely silly investment. Heās a defender, we shouldnāt be regularly subbing defenders off at all, unless weāre looking at it tactically to add a striker. The majority of these cases, weāre essentially wasting a sub
We all know itās technically possible to sign Rodwell, question is should we.
Depending on how things go with Brats, if really rather see us use our foreign spots on a starting CF, CB and GK.
Then, hold the fifth and final spot for the January window.
That was circa Emerton and Kewell era, yeah?
Not to mention he didnāt look that impressive this season when he was on the park. It would be a colossal waste of a visa spot. Heās surely be on good coin, as well.
I donāt hear anyone (including myself) saying Gabriel Lacerda should stay. He played a lot more minutes than Rodwell and his first half of the season was pretty good. He hasnāt recovered from his injury, though, and it seems pretty clear from his reduced general movement since he returned.
Really we should be only looking to fill foreign spots if they present a superior option to available Aussie players in the same role. They also need to be reasonably expected to be fit and available for the majority of the season (eg. pretty much anyone not Rodwell). If they donāt satisfy that criteria, then theyāre not worth spending the extra money for. Simple as that.
If your highest paid earners arenāt designated or marquee then youāre really doing it wrongā¦ If weāre maxing out the cap, why would we put someone on a lower salary as a designated player than the players on the higher salary?
Itās also worth questioning whether our owners would be happy to pay someone a decent wad of cash to potentially not play and just suck up resources from the medical team.
And a little after that. I think Brosque was our āAustralian Marqueeā when he came home. If I remember correctly, I think the rule changed for 2016-17 (or maybe even 2015-16), but Brosque was still contracted on āmarqueeā money and remained marquee for that season?
Thereās a salary floor that some clubs wouldnāt reach if they counted wages outside the cap/floor.
Do we know how the salary floor works though? Like do we include the total salary spend of all players, or is it the ones internally only? Otherwise if you had a team that had, for instance, every player on the full homegrown player subsidy, of 50%, youād potentially never be able to make the floor (unrealistic scenario obviously). I thought the salary floor and salary cap are unrelated