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Soulex posted:Isn't there some weird poo poo that prevents some home grown players getting out of the league? I thought it was something like that I read or saw. In fact, this season a 16-year old highly-regarded midfielder was plucked away from Melbourne to Ajax with a nominal (possibly no?) fee because of some sort of local law preventing him from signing a professional contract that early. So, yeah, if anything the A-League's one of the most fluid leagues to leave in the region.
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Arquebus posted:In Australia? Not that I can think of. It's a problem across a lot of the rest of Asia because there's leagues where the pay far outstrips the talent (China and the oil leagues in particular) so there's no financial incentive for their good players to try and improve themselves abroad, so almost the entire team's domestically based. By contrast, since the A-League's small and underpays its players relative to skill, there's a lot of incentive to leave when you have an opportunity. While the quality of the league's trended strongly upwards recently this season's seen a bit of a dip according to some people, since there was a pretty massive exodus of Australian talent in the offseason. Thanks for this. I always wondered why those leagues weren't bigger. AFL seemed immensely more popular than A-league (I still need to watch a game because I have heard it is pretty much fighting with a ball) when I was in Brisbane. An Aussie actually made a deadline day transfer to Inter which shocked literally everybody.
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Soulex posted:Thanks for this. I always wondered why those leagues weren't bigger. AFL seemed immensely more popular than A-league (I still need to watch a game because I have heard it is pretty much fighting with a ball) when I was in Brisbane. An Aussie actually made a deadline day transfer to Inter which shocked literally everybody. AFL, Rugby League, Rugby Union and Cricket all pay more and draw larger crowds than Football in Australia so unless you have some cultural reason to prefer football you would never consider it for a first choice. The professional and well done league is also very new relatively to other countries, before then it was dumb poo poo with no worthwhile tv deal or money.
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https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/feb/10/wada-describes-lack-of-drug-testing-in-spanish-football-as-alarming La liga hasn't conducted a single anti doping test since March 2016
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Loving Africa Chaps posted:https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/feb/10/wada-describes-lack-of-drug-testing-in-spanish-football-as-alarming 
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Byolante posted:AFL, Rugby League, Rugby Union and Cricket all pay more and draw larger crowds than Football in Australia so unless you have some cultural reason to prefer football you would never consider it for a first choice. The professional and well done league is also very new relatively to other countries, before then it was dumb poo poo with no worthwhile tv deal or money. Aren't most Aussie clubs originally founded by eastern European migrants?
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Corrode posted:Aren't most Aussie clubs originally founded by eastern European migrants? In the old national league, yes. In the newer league, only a few.
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Loving Africa Chaps posted:https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/feb/10/wada-describes-lack-of-drug-testing-in-spanish-football-as-alarming Lol nice
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Corrode posted:Aren't most Aussie clubs originally founded by eastern European migrants? I used 'cultural reasons' as a nice way of saying wogs and serbs
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Loving Africa Chaps posted:https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/feb/10/wada-describes-lack-of-drug-testing-in-spanish-football-as-alarming What this means is all the testing the Madrilean lab has done since March last year is for naught, since they've been working without accreditation.
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Healbot posted:What this means is all the testing the Madrilean lab has done since March last year is for naught, since they've been working without accreditation. As I understand the article they continued testing for a while after being declared non-compliant, then they got shut down? "The authority also blamed Fifa and Uefa for not taking over drug testing in football after Wafa declared it non-compliant last March, which came about after it missed a deadline for required changes to its drug-testing procedures. Wada shut down Madrid’s anti-doping laboratory in June."
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https://twitter.com/waatpies/status/831112777792106497 Broken Turkey
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jyrka posted:Anti-doping is a scam. Totally, remember when Wenger said anti-doping testing should be more strict in football so they turned up at Arsenal's training to 'punish' him? 
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Jose posted:http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/sunderland-news-asamoah-gyan-unethical-hair-a7581281.html Pretty sure Shaarawy would be hanged in a public display if he played there.
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quote:Some match officials in the United Arab Emirates enforce the rules because they are concerned about children copying the styles. Finally, someone thought of the children
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Bacon Terrorist posted:Totally, remember when Wenger said anti-doping testing should be more strict in football so they turned up at Arsenal's training to 'punish' him? I still love this Wenger quote from 2004: "We have had some players come to us at Arsenal from other clubs abroad and their red blood cell count has been abnormally high," he said. "That kind of thing makes you wonder."
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Shroud posted:I still love this Wenger quote from 2004: Red Meat, tomato sauce and milk Wenger
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Not an actual footballer, but a footballer's relative, so I suppose it belongs here. Australian national team player's father stabs his brother in law to death, then runs away and hides in Australia for 17 years. Is eventually busted when he admits to have killed a man to a suicide help-line. http://www.theage.com.au/sport/soccer/socceroo-ryan-mcgowans-father-james-mcgowan-found-guilty-of-murder-in-scotland-20170215-gue1p0.html
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Jose posted:http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/sunderland-news-asamoah-gyan-unethical-hair-a7581281.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi_5lXIT5AY
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Anthony Stokes has to pay Elvis Man 230k euros. Thats an expensive headbutt.
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Blue Star Error posted:Anthony Stokes has to pay Elvis Man 230k euros. Thats an expensive headbutt. thankyouverymuch
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Blue Star Error posted:Anthony Stokes has to pay Elvis Man 230k euros. Thats an expensive headbutt. Did the headbutt leave him all shook up?
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Blue Star Error posted:Anthony Stokes has to pay Elvis Man 230k euros. Thats an expensive headbutt. This is your weekly reminder that Anthony Stokes is a massive retard. chuggo is BACK posted:thankyouverymuch
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chuggo is BACK posted:stokes was hoping to pay a little less compensation Unfortunately the prosecution demanded a little more action.
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Arquebus posted:In Australia? Not that I can think of. It's a problem across a lot of the rest of Asia because there's leagues where the pay far outstrips the talent (China and the oil leagues in particular) so there's no financial incentive for their good players to try and improve themselves abroad, so almost the entire team's domestically based. THats england not asia
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Brazil court orders arrest of Pele's son over drug trafficking http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-39084502
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John Terry's house was raided while he was on a skiing holiday, some reports coming in that it was his mum who orchestrated it 
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Bacon Terrorist posted:John Terry's house was raided while he was on a skiing holiday, some reports coming in that it was his mum who orchestrated it I look forward to him photobombing the mug shots in full kit.
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Jose posted:Bruno, who ordered an ex murdered and then fed to dogs so he didn't have to pay child support and got jailed for 22 years in 2010, is out on parole and has 10 offers from clubs in brazil to play for them sounds cool, could you please post a link or three about it
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JFairfax posted:Maybe Ched Evans should consider a move to Brazil He might be wary of Brazilians now...
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