FFA approves $150k for "Youth" Marquee

[brett]

will Sydney now tell Bridge they are cutting his wage ????

I cant see to many boys coming home for $150k, great to reward guys like Boogs etc that have grown in stature as valuable players.

It is 150k outside the salary cap. You could pay them 300k, but 150 would be in the salary cap.
Hence someone like bridge at sydney will have like 10k in the salary cap, 100 odd outside

they might have to pay them minimum wage under the salary cap though

Don't see why - normal marquee's don't have to have $35k under the cap.

TBH I find this rule a little bent. I'm happy to see Burns, Djite, Vukovic, Boogaard, Zullo, etc etc head overseas when the right offer comes in. If they do a Milligan and bail out before they even have a new club, that is their own fault. But at one stage or another they must leave us to accelerate their development.

It's the guys like Archie (ok well he is a marquee anyway) and Joel Griffiths who I think we should be striving to keep in Australia. They are too old to ever develop into world class players, but keeping them here raises the quality of the A-League and brings the crowds in.

I'd rather see clubs let the wunderkids go one year earlier and invest more money into developing the next five of them OR money spent outside the cap as a repatriation fund for fringe Socceroos such as Jacob Burns. Those are the types of guys we should be trying to get in our league.

 

[MattSimon]

FW Matt Simon - lol our youth marquee ??

I'm on a special system. I actually pay the Mariners for game time, and for every goal I get a free meal at Mingara.

Needless to say I've never been to Mingara.

 

[skilbeck]

and for every goal I get a free meal at Mingara.

I wonder if thats a standard clause in a ccm contract? well i guess Kwas, Hutch, Heff or both SP's that have played for us could tell us

 

[crooksey]

We could sign Kareem for $150k ;D

he meets the age criteria at least

TROISI

that was the first name that popped into my head too...would be great to get him...whats his situation like at newcastle??? last i heard was he was considering his options as he was getting no game time and a step down in class was a possibility...doubt  a step down to a-league though

would love to bring in a forward too...rukavystya or djite would be my line of thinking as i cant see ollyroos that are already o/s coming back which could make the competition for those that are already in the a-league very fierce

ultimately i'd say boogs/danny would be in line to be our first youth marquee

 

[skilbeck]

Lots of youngsters wouldve stayed: Perth wouldve hung onto Ward, Melbourne wouldve hung onto Leijer

 

[Jesus]

They will stay in the future at least.