Melbourne City FC Thread

[Deleted member 58678]

Re: Melbourne Heart FC Thread

Just read this:
<a class="postlink" href="http://m.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/melbourne-suburban-club-defies-uk-juggernaut-on-name-20140223-33amc.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://m.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/melbou ... 33amc.html</a>

 

[aguero93:20]

Re: Melbourne Heart FC Thread

Just read this:
<a class="postlink" href="http://m.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/melbourne-suburban-club-defies-uk-juggernaut-on-name-20140223-33amc.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://m.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/melbou ... 33amc.html</a>

I notice they failed to mention the upturn in form since we bought the club and changed the coach, agenda?

 

[SkyBluAussie]

Re: Melbourne Heart FC Thread

Orlando Engelaar's goal today

[youtube]<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/FiAcZXvZkXI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>[/youtube]


Better than Rooneys?

 

[Falastur]

Re: Melbourne Heart FC Thread

Just read this:
<a class="postlink" href="http://m.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/melbourne-suburban-club-defies-uk-juggernaut-on-name-20140223-33amc.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://m.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/melbou ... 33amc.html</a>

I notice they failed to mention the upturn in form since we bought the club and changed the coach, agenda?

That's probably because we did neither of these things. Heart replaced the coach themselves a full month before we bought the club. As soon as he took over the results radically improved; we're just riding the coattails of his success ATM. It's all starting to go a little sour again now though - they've only earned one point from their last nine.

On the plus side, Shrek's goal has already been supplanted as longest-range goal of the weekend.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f7_CWOBZv4[/youtube]

Edit: Just realised that the poster above also linked this video. My bad, that's what I get for posting on my phone while half-asleep lying in bed.

 

[GornikDaze]

Re: Melbourne Heart FC Thread

Just read this:
<a class="postlink" href="http://m.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/melbourne-suburban-club-defies-uk-juggernaut-on-name-20140223-33amc.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://m.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/melbou ... 33amc.html</a>

I notice they failed to mention the upturn in form since we bought the club and changed the coach, agenda?

That's probably because we did neither of these things. Heart replaced the coach themselves a full month before we bought the club. As soon as he took over the results radically improved; we're just riding the coattails of his success ATM. It's all starting to go a little sour again now though - they've only earned one point from their last nine.

On the plus side, Shrek's goal has already been supplanted as longest-range goal of the weekend.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f7_CWOBZv4[/youtube]

Ha ha "Wayne Rooney eat your heart out!" - quality!!!

 

[stave]

Re: Melbourne Heart FC Thread

Amazing goal of Engelaar!

 

[Plaything of the gods]

Re: Melbourne Heart FC Thread

That's probably because we did neither of these things. Heart replaced the coach themselves a full month before we bought the club. As soon as he took over the results radically improved; we're just riding the coattails of his success ATM. It's all starting to go a little sour again now though - they've only earned one point from their last nine.

You think the two are unrelated? Heart decided to replace their useless manager and then City took the decision to approach Heart and finalise the takeover within that full month?

 

[Falastur]

Re: Melbourne Heart FC Thread

That's probably because we did neither of these things. Heart replaced the coach themselves a full month before we bought the club. As soon as he took over the results radically improved; we're just riding the coattails of his success ATM. It's all starting to go a little sour again now though - they've only earned one point from their last nine.

You think the two are unrelated? Heart decided to replace their useless manager and then City took the decision to approach Heart and finalise the takeover within that full month?

I do actually. Unlike NYCFC, where we started the talks and then invited the Yankees in as part-owners at the eleventh hour, the Heart deal worked the other way around. The Melbourne Storm owner was looking at taking a share of Heart but couldn't get it to work, but he knew that if he brought in a big-business partner, the A-League would jack up their demands. So he basically negotiated the entire deal by himself, then at the eleventh hour invited City in to be the majority partners, knowing that they had been sniffing around A-League sides for some months.

I love to blow City's trumpet as much as the next person but I don't think it takes a genius of Khaldoon's intellect or a businessman of Soriano's calibre to sack a manager who had managed to produce 9 goals from the first 12 games of the season and was on a 17-game winless streak and was incapable of picking anything other than the exact same starting XI as the following week in spite of poor performance and ineptitude. I honestly believe that it was the last throw of the dice by the club's management, possibly immediately prior to being contacted about the takeover. Let's face it, they wouldn't be the first people to hire a new manager before selling up and leaving their man stranded. Anyone remember Leroy Rosenior's 10-minute stint as manager of Torquay?

Let's put it this way - I think that John van't Schip has done a fantastic job since returning to the club, the last couple of results excluded. But considering that only 18 months earlier, he walked out on the club "for personal reasons" and had recently been sacked by Chivas (the Mexican one, not the MLS side), I don't think that City would have picked him to return to the club as manager if they had had full control.

 

[Plaything of the gods]

Re: Melbourne Heart FC Thread

I'm not privy to the goings on behind the scenes but to sack Aloisi on 28 December, appoint van't Schip on 30 December, and then sell the club by 23 January is pretty swift going. I'm just surprised that City would be able to do all the necessary financial, legal, etc due diligence work from scratch within those 24 days.

 

[aguero93:20]

Re: Melbourne Heart FC Thread

I'm not privy to the goings on behind the scenes but to sack Aloisi on 28 December, appoint van't Schip on 30 December, and then sell the club by 23 January is pretty swift going. I'm just surprised that City would be able to do all the necessary financial, legal, etc due diligence work from scratch within those 24 days.

they wouldn't. Even for a small outfit you need at least 6 weeks to do due diligence.