Archie Thompson to PSV

The Americans will be disappointed,PSV will have no further use for "NATS" star DeMarcus Beasley.

 

Archie's not bad, but he is only a backup to a backup in the Australian squad. He will perform competently enough for PSV, but don't expect to see a superstar.

 

Archie wont be bad, sort of player that can look brilliant sometimes, but can also fall flat on his face.

BTW he is the world record holder for most goals in an international - 13 vs Am. Samoa. Not much opposition but still

 

good news, i think he can be a good player there. he plays similar to j farfan but is no where near better than him. jason culina and nathan coe will be happy to have another australian team mate with them at psv

 

http://foxsports.news.com.au/story/0,8659,17711572-5000940,00.html

 

It will be a loss for melbourne victory - he's our only class player. If he can get regular game time, even if its mostly as a sub against far higher quality opposition than the a-league then that can only be good for the national team.

 

I love him but a tad overrated really.

If we could get $500,000+ and a decent midfeider for him I'd over the moon.

 

So has he accepted the offer has he?

I hope that the victory get somebody of his calbre in return.

 

Just as long as the new team look after him well. Am I right in saying that the soccerroos coach is the coach of PSV? I have heard that somewhere and now I am not so sure.

 

He is Melbourne Victory's star striker

 

No - the club has not yet accepted the offer.

A announcment will be mde over the next 12-24 hours.

I doubt it

Im sure they will, why else would they want him?

You are correct - the great man himself:

 

Thanks for all that.
I hope that Mark Schwarzer comes back to Australia and plays for the Victory.

 

Hopefully this is on a loan deal, so he can come back in time for the next A-League season. That'd be a huge win for Victory. But if it doesn't work out like that, then we have to find another striker of his standard.

And fast. I don't like the looks of a Diaco/Allsopp attack, even though I'm a bit of a fan of Allsopp, despite so many Victory fans hating him.

 

Sounds like he's going to be in for some fun.

 

I hope you mean "eventually". (Although he'd be more likely to go to Sydney, as that's where he's originally from.)

If you mean that you hope his transfer request to Middlesborough will result in him coming back to Australia, that is not going to happen, but if it did it would result in our first choice Socceroo goalkeeper sitting around doing nothing for a few months in the lead up to the World Cup!

 

So you call yourself "Hiddink Magic", but you don't know that Guus Hiddink is both the coach of the Socceroos and PSV Eindhoven?? WTF?

Were you known as "goaldrush" in another life perhaps?

 

Things have moved on a bit in the Archie Thompson to PSV saga:

Yesterday....

http://www.theage.com.au/news/socce...s-over-outburst/2006/01/12/1136956304976.html

but then today....

http://www.mvfc.com.au/default.aspx?s=newsdisplay&id=2992&pageid=71

Any strikers out there need a job? Melbourne Victory has a vacancy opening up....

 

Well, well well, anyone (Archie, his manager, the media) willing to eat humble pie in the aftermath of this good news?

Or are yesterday's headlines a figment of the imagination?

Morons.

 

Deal is done - MVFC have done very well.

Alot of Victory fans views on Archie have changed from Hero to Judas due his comments of late.

 

Will archie still be playing this wkend against QLD or has he flown out already?

 

He's playing first and then going to PSV on Monday.

 

I wonder what the club will do with 1-2 million euros....could this be the start of a juggernaut?

 

I reckon that he will fit in to Hiddink's team really well. He's on loan for 6 months. It would be a real eye opener for Archie Thompson.