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Who's Going Where in the Hyundai A-League Wednesday, 13 June 2007

As one season Hyundai A-League season finishes, the planning for the next season begins in earnest. Already the player merry-go-round is in full swing.

http://www.a-league.com.au will try to keep you abreast of the comings and goings with player movements during the off-season.

Adelaide United

Re-signed: Jason Spagnuolo, Bobby Petta, Dez Giraldi, Bruce Djite, Daniel Beltrame, Robert Bajic, Robert Cornthwaite

Gains:Paul Agostino (1860 Munich, Germany), Jonas Salley (NZ Knights), Kristian Sarkies (Melbourne Victory), Jose de Abreu Oliveira ‘Cassio’ (Santa Cruz, Brazil), Shaun Ontong (AIS), Matthew Mullen (AIS).

Losses: Greg Owens (released by mutual consent), Matthew Kemp (Melbourne Victory - after ACL), Ross Aloisi (Wellington Phoenix), Shengqing Qu (released), Carl Veart (retired), Kristian Rees (released), Aaron Goulding (released), Adam van Dommele (released)



Central Coast Mariners

Re-signed: Mile Jedinak (on a full contract), Adam Kwasnik, Matt Osman, Brad Porter, Matthew Trott, Damien Brown, Paul O'Grady, Nigel Boogard, Matt Simon (Full contract).

Gains: Sasho Petrovski (Sydney FC), Greg Owens (Adelaide United), Dean Heffernan (from loan - FC Nurnberg, Germany).

Losses: Noel Spencer (released), Vuko Tomasevic (released), Wayne O’Sullivan (released), Jamie McMaster (released), Stewart Petrie (released), John Crawley (out of contract), Nigel Boogaard (out of contract)



Melbourne Victory

Re-signed: Grant Brebner, Steve Pantelidis, Leigh Broxham, Rod Vargas, Michael Theoklitos

Gains: Ljubo Milicevic (Young Boys Berne, Switzerland), Mitchell Langerak (AIS), Joseph Keenan (Willem II, Netherlands), Matthew Kemp (Adelaide United - after ACL), Evan Berger (Marconi Stallions, NSW), Carlos Hernandez (LD Alajuelense).

Losses: Michael Ferrante (Wellington Phoenix), Mark Byrnes (released), Geoffrey Claeys (released during 06-07 season), Claudinho (released during 06-07 season), Simon Storey (released), Vince Lia (Wellington Phoenix), James Robinson (released), Fred (DC United, USA), Kristian Sarkies (Adelaide United), Alessandro (out of contract)



Newcastle Jets

Re-signed: Matt Thompson

Gains: Adam Griffiths (Brentford, England)

Losses: Milton Rodriguez (released; returning to Colombia); Labinot Haliti (released), Tony Faria (released), Ivan Necevski (released during 06-07 season), Tolgay Ozbey (released during 06-07 season)



Perth Glory

Re-signed: Naum Sekulovski

Gains: Billy Celeski (Bulleen, VIC), Anthony Danze (WA), James Downey (Australian Institute of Sport), Dino Djulbic (South Melbourne), Tando Velaphi (Perth SC), Nikita Rukavytsya (Perth SC), Nikolai Topor-Stanley (Sydney FC), Nick Rizzo (Chesterfield, England), Mate Dragicevic (NK Pula, Croatia)

Losses: Stuart Young (retired), Adrian Webster (released), Luka Glavas (released), Mislav Saric (released), Mark Robertson (released)



Queensland Roar

Re-signed: Matt McKay, Ben Griffin.

Gains: Danny Tiatto (Leicester City, England), Robbie Kruse (uncontracted), Chris Grossman (full contract), Tahj Minniecon (Australian Institute of Sport), Mitch Nichols (Palm Beach Sharks, QLD), Matt Ham (Brisbane Wolves, QLD)

Losses: Chad Gibson (released), Remo Buess (released), Yuning Zhang (released), Dario Vidosic (FC Nurnberg, Germany)



Sydney FC

Re-signed: Iain Fyfe, Terry McFlynn, Robbie Middleby, David Carney

Gains: Adam Casey (New Zealand Knights), Dean Bouzanis (on-loan from Liverpool, England), Nikolas Tsattalios (NSWIS), Michael Enfield (LA Galaxy, USA)

Losses: Sasho Petrovski (Central Coast Mariners), Alvin Ceccoli (Avispa Fukuoka, Japan), Nikolai Topor-Stanley (Perth Glory), Justin Pasfield (Sydney United, NSW)



Wellington Phoenix FC

Gains: Ross Aloisi (Adelaide United), Costa Barbarouses (Team Wellington/Wellington Olympic, NZ), Tim Brown (Newcastle Jets), Royce Brownlie (Chester City on loan from Swindon Town, England), Felipe De Souza Campos (Hajduk Split, Croatia), Jeremy Christie (Perth Glory), Daniel Lins Cortes (Guarani, Brazil), Vaughan Coveny (Newcastle Jets), Karl Dodd (Falkirk, Scotland), Michael Ferrante (Melbourne Victory), Richard Johnson (NZ Knights), Vince Lia (Melbourne Victory), Tony Lochhead (New England Revolution, USA), Glen Moss, Steven O'Dor (New Zealand Knights), Steven Old (Newcastle Jets), Mark Paston (NZ Knights), Shane Smeltz (Halifax Town).

Fernando also gone for AU.

How do you think the wellington pheonix will go. they sound like a name for a netball team. Adelaide united will finish around 3rd-5th.

my prediction for positions at end of minor rounds, if the squads were sealed today:

melbourne
brisbane
sydney
adelaide
central coast
newcastle
perth
wellington

i originally had wellington in 6th but then i had to reassess and say "would they finish higher than the jets or glory?" Its hard to see that happening but who knows

if adelaide can seal a decent central defender i will have them third over sydney, maybe even second. i like the look of our squad

Good to see that we (perth) have signed players that we have no hope of being able to say by their surname

Billy Celeski will be handy, much better than the coaches son from version 1

Hopefully they start playing like the Perth of the old NSL, attacking and and entertaining to watch.

brent wrote:my prediction for positions at end of minor rounds, if the squads were sealed today:

melbourne
brisbane
sydney
adelaide
central coast
newcastle
perth
wellington

i originally had wellington in 6th but then i had to reassess and say "would they finish higher than the jets or glory?" Its hard to see that happening but who knows

if adelaide can seal a decent central defender i will have them third over sydney, maybe even second. i like the look of our squad

I liked the look of the Jets last year. Rodrigues is a massive loss, but I think they wil be better than CCM.

I'm not convinced by the Roar either.

My punt for the V3 table is:

adelaide
melbourne
sydney
newcastle
brisbane
central coast
perth
wellington

Obviously biased, but I really like Uniteds signings.

Adelaide
Central Coast
Sydney
Melbourne
Queensland
Perth
Newcastle
Wellington

Magpies, you don't have Archie Thompson anywhere in the Victory wrap....

Dogwatcher wrote:Magpies, you don't have Archie Thompson anywhere in the Victory wrap....

DW i just cut and paste from the a-league web site
it could also mean he's already contracted to MV because it says those who re-signed(out of contract), those new and those that they have lost