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Happy days.
Its cos the Australian property market is crashing
He'll own half of Australia by this time next year.
God huAkbar
All his players will be selected on a pyramid scheme basis
It's even worse than you think. The fake news describe the crash in terms of averages, where the more plentiful and cheaper places have not fallen as far so bolster up the average loss. If you forget about them, and just look at the high end properties which God will be focusing on, the losses are in the words of Big D 'huuuge'.
[article]Brisbane Roar Football Club is delighted to announce football legend Robbie Fowler has been appointed as the Club’s new Hyundai A-League Head Coach.
44-year old Fowler, with his combination of success and experience at the highest level of world football, was a stand-out candidate for the vacant Head Coach position.
Following an extensive, detailed and robust appointment process, the UEFA Pro Licence coach, FA Cup, UEFA Cup and UEFA Super Cup winner impressed throughout the interview process.
Fowler has agreed to a two-year contract with the Club for Season 2019 and beyond.
Brisbane's new Head Coach is proud to be joining a Club with such a proud and successful history.
"I'm really looking forward to the challenge and am determined to bring success to a club that has such a proud history in the Hyundai A-League," Newly appointed BRFC Head Coach Robbie Fowler said.
"I'm really keen to get started and make a difference.
"My family and I have already experienced living in Queensland, so I'm really happy to be returning and being part of the Brisbane Roar family."
Over the past seven years, Brisbane's new Head Coach has been coaching extensively at Liverpool FC's renowned Academy program.
Roar’s new leader will bring with him outstanding technical knowledge and a deep understanding of the Australian and international football landscape.
Brisbane Roar Chief Executive Office David Pourre is excited to welcome Robbie to the Roar family and believes the future is bright for Queensland's only Hyundai A-League representative.
"I'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate and welcome Robbie to our proud and successful football club," Pourre said.
"BRFC is confident that we have appointed an outstanding person and someone who is hungry to succeed.
"I know our members, supporters, sponsors and fans will be excited for Season 2019/20."
The Club would like to take this opportunity to thank the Advisory Panel and SRi Executive for their assistance and hard work in helping to guide the appointment process. [/article]
Well on the upside he can't do any worse than what we have been subjected to for the past 2-3 seasons.
The good news for Fowler is that a majority of our squad is coming off contract at the end of the current season - and a squad overhaul is definitely required.
So he can come in and pretty much sign the squad he wants.
Importantly I believe the following positions are up for renewal:
The good news for Fowler is that a majority of our squad is coming off contract at the end of the current season - and a squad overhaul is definitely required.
So he can come in and pretty much sign the squad he wants.
Importantly I believe the following positions are up for renewal:
- International marquee
- Australian marquee
- 3 x visa spots
Listening to him in interviews I always thought he was brighter than some of his behaviour might suggest. Wouldn't be surprised if he does well.
And the mass purge of the squad has begun as predicted.
https://www.foxsports.com.au/footba...t/news-story/b0918105532f4a618fa4d499df3947f4
Brisbane squad to be drastically overhauled under Robbie Fowler as 14 players depart.
Robbie Fowler's Brisbane Roar rebuild is quickly underway with the A-League club announcing a host of player departures meaning 14 will not return next season.
French marquee Eric Bautheac and ex-Socceroos attacker Brett Holman are among the biggest names leaving the club.
Bautheac has previously been linked with Melbourne Victory and is understood to be in the sights of other A-League clubs while Holman hasn’t been sighted all season due to an ongoing knee injury.
Other departures confirmed by the Roar are those of veteran defender Luke DeVere, mid- season signings Eli Babalj, Charlie Lokoli-Ngoy and Ruon Tongyik, overseas players Alex Lopez and Tobias Mikkelsen, as well as Joe Caletti, Stefan Nigro and Brendan White.
The group join the already announced departures of Matt Mckay, Thomas Kristensen and Henrique, effectively leaving Fowler with a blank canvas for his first season as a manager.
Ex-Socceroos midfielder McKay has retired after making 272 A-League appearances for the club while Kristensen is returning to Denmark and veteran Brazilian Henrique was released.
The Roar are looking to rebuild under newly-appointed coach Fowler after a 2018-19 campaign in which they won just four matches and conceded an A-League record 71 goals.
Ex-Liverpool great Fowler, who watched Roar’s 5-3 loss to Adelaide on Anzac Day before returning to England, is expected to be back in Australia in June before the club’s pre-season commences.
https://www.foxsports.com.au/footba...t/news-story/b0918105532f4a618fa4d499df3947f4
Brisbane squad to be drastically overhauled under Robbie Fowler as 14 players depart.
Robbie Fowler's Brisbane Roar rebuild is quickly underway with the A-League club announcing a host of player departures meaning 14 will not return next season.
French marquee Eric Bautheac and ex-Socceroos attacker Brett Holman are among the biggest names leaving the club.
Bautheac has previously been linked with Melbourne Victory and is understood to be in the sights of other A-League clubs while Holman hasn’t been sighted all season due to an ongoing knee injury.
Other departures confirmed by the Roar are those of veteran defender Luke DeVere, mid- season signings Eli Babalj, Charlie Lokoli-Ngoy and Ruon Tongyik, overseas players Alex Lopez and Tobias Mikkelsen, as well as Joe Caletti, Stefan Nigro and Brendan White.
The group join the already announced departures of Matt Mckay, Thomas Kristensen and Henrique, effectively leaving Fowler with a blank canvas for his first season as a manager.
Ex-Socceroos midfielder McKay has retired after making 272 A-League appearances for the club while Kristensen is returning to Denmark and veteran Brazilian Henrique was released.
The Roar are looking to rebuild under newly-appointed coach Fowler after a 2018-19 campaign in which they won just four matches and conceded an A-League record 71 goals.
Ex-Liverpool great Fowler, who watched Roar’s 5-3 loss to Adelaide on Anzac Day before returning to England, is expected to be back in Australia in June before the club’s pre-season commences.
Is there any Money in the A - League, or will he have to look at Paul Walsh, Jason McAteer and Romario to get things right? I mean, I believe Tobias Mikkelsen played in Norway quite a few Seasons back.
Edit- Confirmed he played for Rosenborg from 2013-2015
There's really no money in the A-League - the leagues in Asia that have money are Korea, Japan, China & UAE.
The problem with the A-League is that it operates on a 'salary cap' - each club has to play by these rules.
From memory each club has to abide by the following:
- Squads must be minimum 20 players, maximum 25
- Each club can have no more than 5 non-Australian players
- Maximum combined salary of a squad cannot be any more than $2.5M AUD
- Each club can have 1 international 'marquee' player whose salary is exempt from $2.5M cap
- Each club can have 1 Australian 'marquee' player whose salary is exempt from $2.5m cap
- Each club can have 1 full season 'guest marquee' player on a 12 month contract who is exempt from the $2.5M camp
The reason for the salary cap model is because prior to the A-League - which commenced in 2005 - the old National Soccer League operated with the open market model where each club could pay their players however much they wanted.
But this became economically unviable for the league because the clubs were poorly run, the governing body was poorly run, there was pretty much no TV deal in place for the league etc - there was no mainstream interest in the game.
So in 2005 the A-League was started and each club has strict financial regulations imposed on it - but aim is to move away from the salary cap model once the governing body are confident that each club has the economic foundations in place to warrant that change - via memberships, marketing, sponsorships, TV deals etc.
Surely at such low cap, they can never develop big talent at each club in the long term, thus never gain in local popularity. Why wouldn’t they put something like the FFP in place where clubs successful financially can develop further and retain their talent? The poorly run clubs would cry foul but you need a bit of the big club vs underdogs kind of story to get the supporters hooked.
It’s not that simple.
Anyone half decent will be picked up by a European club.
Their isn’t the mass interest in Australia - Aussie Rules & rugby league dominate and are more well established.
There’s a huge amount of ethnicity involved in Australia club football lower down that has turned many people off the franchise teams and conversely precludes many from supporting “local” clubs.
You are fucking shitting me...
What? So Australia is full of racists? Not entirely surprised, but still, fucking hell.
Football in Australia for decades was held together by ethnic migrants - you had clubs like:
- Brunswick Juventus
- South Melbourne Hellas (Greeks)
- Melbourne Knights (Serbs)
- Sydney Olympic
- Sydney Croatia
There would be outright riots at games whenever you had the Serb clubs playing the Croats etc - it was rough, definitely not a family environment. At the football-bashing mainstream media would jump all over it whenever it occurred.
The funny thing is that there is now millions and millions being pumped into football since 2005 - but we are producing bang average talent.
Back in the old National Soccer League days where there was no money at all invested in the game - the ethnic clubs produced amazing talent:
- Mark Viduka (Melbourne Knights)
- Mark Bosnich (Sydney Croatia)
- Mark Schwarzere (Marconi)
- Harry Kewell (Marconi)
- Stan Lazaridis (West Adelaide)
During the 90's & up to mid 2000's there was many Aussies playing in the EPL & Serie A and doing very well for themselves.
The ethnic clubs had better coaching/training and produced these kind of players - now its shifted away to some bullshit centralised coaching system and there's no talent coming through.
He hadn't focused on buying expensive properties for his portfolio before so why would he start now?
To compound his returns without having to own every house in the city.
As for the title, there is no god.
And increase his exposure and risk. Sorry been there done that with all types of residential and commercial. Each market has its own peculiarities anyway so maybe that is the best investment in the Aussie market at this particular time, I couldn't make that call.
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