I hope we negotiated a sell on clause.
Fuck thatās some good business.
Bit of a blast from the past.
One of the best Sydney FC goals of all time, Brendan Renaud v Lost Angeles Galaxy during the 2008 Pan Pacific Championship in Hawaii.
Unlike our mid-season friendly against them, we lost this 2-1 following a 3-0 defeat to the Houstan Dynamo.
Always makes me laugh how Brendon Renaud ended up playing for us,
I donāt remember. Wasnāt he an injury replacement signing?
He worked in the Sydney FC offices as a coaching development officer, also played for Blacktown if I recall right. He was brought onto the squad as an injury replacement.
Pretty sure he was at Blacktown at the time.
Itās not like he wasnāt an NSL player.
There was also ākit manā Ryan Walsh who played in the same tournament. He was at Blacktown as well, at the time was āassisting with the kitā for Sydney FC and I think later on became a community officer with the club.
OK.
Itās getting beyond ridiculous now. What dirt does he have on the Yokohama FC board members that has him keep signing contracts and going out on loan.
It was a funny novelty at first, and Iām not being ageist here, but what is possessing these clubs to take a late 50s player and think āyes, a fine addition to the squad to achieve the goals weāve made this seasonā.
Like heās barely playing any gametime at all. Youād hate to be a 16-17 year old youth player and then find out your opportunity is being scuppered because the clubs signed a bloke old enough to be your grandfatherā¦
Now? Itās been ridiculous for 10-15 years now.
Heās trotted out for a cameo here or there and itās heās taking advantage of some facet of Japanese culture that doesnāt let them tell the ederly to jog on.
Yeah who wants to be the one to pull out the plug on grandpaās life support, but on a national scale? I kinda assume he will even continue to get a contract after he has shuffled off this mortal coil.
Perhaps the Japanese worded their loyalty cap discount poorly, meaning that he actually counts for negative cap space for each extra year they keep him on?
Dunno about anyone else, but Iād be pretty fine with us rolling out an almost-60 Rhyno - glorious silver mullet starting from a hairline thatās receded all the way behind the ears - from time to time.
A thick silver-bearded Alex Brosque at 57 would likely have all our tongues wagging!
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In a roster restricted league with a salary cap?
Nope.
Hater.
Iām choc full of hatorade.