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Matt Mckay joins Changchun Yatai

greenlion

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Matt Mckay Joins Changchun Yatai

Queensland Roar midfeilder Matt Mckay joins CSL side Changchun Yatai, the northeast china team announced the transfer today.

Matt Mckay, 26 years old, becomes the 6th Aussie player and the 14th AFC foreigner in CSL 2009
 

Sean

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I wonder if this is because he does not stand a chance to put on the green and gold ever again.
 

marinermick

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Sean Francis Lacy said:
I wonder if this is because he does not stand a chance to put on the green and gold ever again.

more like $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
 

northernspirit

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this is becoming a farce
asian leagues are snapping up average aussie players, before you know it dinamo marinators will be representing the coast, lokomotiv cove SFC etc...

we need to stem the flow of players before the league becomes a laughing stock
 

David Votoupal

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This is what some of us have feared for a long time, that even average to poor players (for that is what McKay, in all brutal honesty, is) will be lured by more games and bigger bucks abroad.

On the other hand, I think it's a mor exciting prospect to see young players who will develop (e.g. Grant, Kantarovski) than established older players (e.g. Griffiths) who aren't going to get any better here.
 

Sean

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marinermick said:
Sean Francis Lacy said:
I wonder if this is because he does not stand a chance to put on the green and gold ever again.

more like $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Obviously. Im still bitter from his performance in Canberra against Kuwait.
 

clarence

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northernspirit said:
this is becoming a farce
asian leagues are snapping up average aussie players, before you know it dinamo marinators will be representing the coast, lokomotiv cove SFC etc...

we need to stem the flow of players before the league becomes a laughing stock

I reckon it's a 'flavour of the month' kinda thing with the other Asian Leagues.

It will probably go on for a few more years to come, but the initial frenzy might die down once a few of our average players on big Asian $$ don't deliver what is expected of them, and they realise that Aussie players have some average technical skills ( and could pick up the same quality within their own ranks if they looked hard enough instead of listening to agents' sales pitches).

Our journeymen, of course, love the $$ being thrown at them, and they'll still be close enough to home to take a trip home for Christmas to see the folks. And, of course, our journeyman type of player is what has kicked off this A-League when it happened.

The real talent will still flow to Europe, but they may take a first step to an international professional playing career in Asia first up, in the future.
 

marinermick

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The World Game on Sunday said that Caceras was offerred a good contract to go to Asia and turned it down.
 

bulldogmariner

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WE NEED TO REMEMBER THAT OUR COMPETITION IS A SELLING ONE! WITH THE NEW AFC RULES GOVERNING ASIAN FOOTBALL TEAMS ARE ALLOWED 4 IMPORTS ONE OF WHICH IS ASIAN. THEREFORE THE PREMIER TEAM IN ASIA AT PRESENT IS AUSTRALIA AND WITH A SALARY CAP CONTROLLING PLAYERS WAGES CASHED UP ASIAN TEAMS WILL TRY TO BUY OUR BEST. THE BENEFIT THAT WE GAIN FROM THIS IS MASSIVE IN TERMS OF $$$$ PLUS OUR PLAYERS BECOME MORE EXPERIENCED IN ASIAN FOOTBALL SO WE DONT SEE PERFORMANCES LIKE AGAINST KUWAIT. AS THIS IS THE WAY OF THE FUTRE FOR THE GAME HERE IN AUSTRALIA WE NEED TO EMBRACE IT.
THE OTHER POSITIVE IS THE NYL WHICH MEANS CLUBS WILL BE REWARDED FOR DEVELOPMENT OF PLAYERS. THEY CAN GET THEM IN THE SYSTEM AT 16 OR 17 AND SELL THEM ON AT 20-23 MAKING A PROFIT ON THE PLAYER. LONG GONE ARE THE DAYS OF RYAN GIGGS WHEN A PLAYER SATYS AT A CLUB FOR HIS CAREER. SO WE SHOULD MAKE THE MOST OF IT.
 

scottmac

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bulldogmariner said:
WE NEED TO REMEMBER THAT OUR COMPETITION IS A SELLING ONE! WITH THE NEW AFC RULES GOVERNING ASIAN FOOTBALL TEAMS ARE ALLOWED 4 IMPORTS ONE OF WHICH IS ASIAN. THEREFORE THE PREMIER TEAM IN ASIA AT PRESENT IS AUSTRALIA AND WITH A SALARY CAP CONTROLLING PLAYERS WAGES CASHED UP ASIAN TEAMS WILL TRY TO BUY OUR BEST. THE BENEFIT THAT WE GAIN FROM THIS IS MASSIVE IN TERMS OF $$$$ PLUS OUR PLAYERS BECOME MORE EXPERIENCED IN ASIAN FOOTBALL SO WE DONT SEE PERFORMANCES LIKE AGAINST KUWAIT. AS THIS IS THE WAY OF THE FUTRE FOR THE GAME HERE IN AUSTRALIA WE NEED TO EMBRACE IT.
THE OTHER POSITIVE IS THE NYL WHICH MEANS CLUBS WILL BE REWARDED FOR DEVELOPMENT OF PLAYERS. THEY CAN GET THEM IN THE SYSTEM AT 16 OR 17 AND SELL THEM ON AT 20-23 MAKING A PROFIT ON THE PLAYER. LONG GONE ARE THE DAYS OF RYAN GIGGS WHEN A PLAYER SATYS AT A CLUB FOR HIS CAREER. SO WE SHOULD MAKE THE MOST OF IT.

Now to make sure PIM can pick Aussies in Asia for the Green & Gold. Actually, now to make sure PIM picks the best available side and not the shite he put together in Canberra.
 

greenlion

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notice the fact as AFC Foreigner, the Aussies goes to top CSL clubs and the other asia players goes to lower ranked teams.

Here is a list of AFC foreigners in CSL, listed by the 2008 league ranking

1. Shandong Luneng MF Roda Antar (Lebanon)
2. Shanghai Shenhua DF Mark Milligan (Australia)
3. Beijing Guo'an FW Ryan Griffiths (Australia) & FW Joel Griffiths (Australia)
4. Tianjin Teda FW Mark Bridge (Australia)
5. Shanxi Chanba MF Jonas Salley (Australia)
6. Changchun Yatai MF Matt Mckay (Australia)
7. Guangzhou Yiyao
8. Hangzhou Greentown DF Ng Wai Chiu (Hong Kong)
9. Qingdao Jonoon MF Lee Tea-Young (South Korea)
10. Henan Jianye
11. Changsha Ginde FW Kim Eun-jung (South Korea) & DF Sim Jae-Won (South Korea)
12. Shenzhen FC DF Aleksey Nikolaev (Uzbekistan)
13. Chengdu Blades DF Ryang Myong Il (North Korea)
14. Dalian Shide
15. (China League Champions) Jiangsu Sanity DF Alexandr Kletskov (Uzbekistan)
16. (China League Runners-Up) Chongqing Lifan
 

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