Ibini possibly off to Saudi Arabia or Thailand after rejecting a few A-League offers.
But itās necessary.
The new Dave Carney, gotta fill those passport pages.
Bernie come back! (You can blame it all on meā¦)
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Asian passport + his physique, pace and power = years of huge Asian contracts.
You were wrong ā¦
I have no idea where heād fit, but Iād take Bernie back in a heartbeat.
For the money, Iād rather have Ivanovic and Buhagiar. Yes, Bernie has the cult hero factor, but he rarely delivered. Sure, everyone remembers his screamer in the derby, but how many other goals can you remember him scoring ? Maybe heāll come back a better player after his stints o/s, but he was very frustrating in his last season with us.
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I donāt disagree, but to answer your question, I remember an amazing goal that he scored against Melbourne to help win the game while I was in the stands on Australia Day. For that he will always be a legend for me.
That goal in Melbourne was picked out in the Record Breakers doco as the moment of the season by Arnie and the team.
We were losing to MV who had been just about keeping within range that season, then Holosko and Ibini definitively told the league that it was our season.
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Shane Smeltz signs for Gold Coast United
Guess his job working for big Clive Palmer fell throughā¦ company probably dissolved 
Devlin player of the month. Will be a good replacement for ONeill if needed
4 goals in 21 appearances, where, if my memory serves me right, he was used purely as an impact sub in the last 20 minutes of the games isnāt too bad. Pretty sure he had one of the highest goals/minutes played ratios that year.
The problem with Bernie is that heās barely spent any of his career as a regular starter. The last time was Arnieās first season - 28 appearances, 2400+ minutes.
He had that horrible injury at Bruges, came back to make 20 appearances at just over 500 minutes for us on loan as an impact player, and since then has had all of 2090 minutesā football in the USA, Korea, UAE and even in Canada. So since the end of that proper first-teamer 2015 season, heās had 4.5 years where in total heās played roughly as many minutes (2600 or so, including those 500 for us) as in that 1st season in sky blue.
For his sake as a footballer (note - this may be a different thing to his sake in terms of ensuring his financial security), he needs to find a club where heās a regular trusted member of the first team to get his form and confidence up.
Coming back to us, heād be an alternative to Buhagiar of Ivanovic, but would want way more money. It would be no use for his footballing career or his financial security.
Bernie is the perennial impact sub which surely becomes a bit of a vicious cycle as he doesnāt have 90 mins stamina in his legs so canāt ever start and so it goes.
Still an decent career for your twenties and early thirties on good money in some cool places (and Gosford).
Seba signed with Olympic!!!
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Sensational. I look forward to him āhot knife through butteringā the fascists at United.
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Not too sure Turks should be singing those kind of song?