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It’s a bizarre rule when you think about it; a Brazil squad player would have issues that a regular international for the Cook Islands might not.

 

Luckily, every South American player ever happens to be eligible for a Greek/Italian/Spanish/Portuguese passport.  Phew.  Oddly enough, this doesn’t seem to be the case for all the other non-footballing S Americans. 

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1 hour ago, Holloway said:

Because of the level of the league he's been playing in . Ask Elliot Anderson about the step up

It’s irrelevant what the level of the league is, just the level of the player. Anderson isn’t a PL player right now as per his (limited) appearances. We don’t know about Kuol until he gets here. 

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1 hour ago, TheBrownBottle said:

It’s a bizarre rule when you think about it; a Brazil squad player would have issues that a regular international for the Cook Islands might not.

 

Luckily, every South American player ever happens to be eligible for a Greek/Italian/Spanish/Portuguese passport.  Phew.  Oddly enough, this doesn’t seem to be the case for all the other non-footballing S Americans. 

 

The rules do actually take into account the ranking of the national team, a player playing 30% of Brazil's matches in the past year would automatically qualify, a Cook Islands international playing 100% of their matches would only get 2 points towards the 15 needed to qualify.

 

To qualify by national appearances Kuol will need to have played in at least 40% of Australia's matches where he was available for selection in the previous 12 months before the application. I think they'll need to get to the quarter final with him appearing in every match for him to be over 40% in January.

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45 minutes ago, Jackie Broon said:

 

The rules do actually take into account the ranking of the national team, a player playing 30% of Brazil's matches in the past year would automatically qualify, a Cook Islands international playing 100% of their matches would only get 2 points towards the 15 needed to qualify.

 

To qualify by national appearances Kuol will need to have played in at least 40% of Australia's matches where he was available for selection in the previous 12 months before the application. I think they'll need to get to the quarter final with him appearing in every match for him to be over 40% in January.

Using the example of Garnacho (again) who came over after Brexit from Spain without even any Under 18 caps at the time. How would he be allowed to play but Kuol, Commonwealth citizen and full international wouldn't?

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Bearing in mind how new on the footballing block he is, it'd be interesting to hear how he came up on our radar and we made the move so quickly. Doesn't seem like the was a crowd of similarly aware teams after him.

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34 minutes ago, madras said:

Using the example of Garnacho (again) who came over after Brexit from Spain without even any Under 18 caps at the time. How would he be allowed to play but Kuol, Commonwealth citizen and full international wouldn't?

 

Not saying he wouldn't, we could apply for an exception for a talented youth player, he just isn't likely to qualify by international appearances by January.

 

 

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1 hour ago, 80 said:

Bearing in mind how new on the footballing block he is, it'd be interesting to hear how he came up on our radar and we made the move so quickly. Doesn't seem like the was a crowd of similarly aware teams after him.


He put in a dominant performance against Barcelona when he was 17 in an All Stars game. Xavi spoke extremely highly of his performance. There were rumours that Barca were one of the teams looking at signing him. 

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25/1 to finish top Australian scorer. They probably won't score many and he's got a chance of a consolation goal here and there in his little cameos. Worth a shot?

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6 hours ago, 80 said:

Bearing in mind how new on the footballing block he is, it'd be interesting to hear how he came up on our radar and we made the move so quickly. Doesn't seem like the was a crowd of similarly aware teams after him.

There were a few, including stuttgart, barca and Celtic but NUFC offered him a ridiculous wage ( for a 17 yo ) and showed him a proper career pathway. They wanted him the most and all kids in Oz grow up watching the EPL. All his dreams come true plus a World Cup!!! Those odds for top scorer are very juicy indeed 

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7 hours ago, Jackie Broon said:

 

The rules do actually take into account the ranking of the national team, a player playing 30% of Brazil's matches in the past year would automatically qualify, a Cook Islands international playing 100% of their matches would only get 2 points towards the 15 needed to qualify.

 

To qualify by national appearances Kuol will need to have played in at least 40% of Australia's matches where he was available for selection in the previous 12 months before the application. I think they'll need to get to the quarter final with him appearing in every match for him to be over 40% in January.


No extra points for appearing in a World Cup? 

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17 hours ago, Manxst said:

He won’t be returning to Australia- we’d want him to gain experience (and work permit points) in a decent European league. It’d be a complete waste for him to return back to Australia, and would achieve nothing for the club or player in the long term. 

Is it easier to get a work permit in Europe than the UK? I assume that it is since we became "Little Britain".

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15 hours ago, OverThere said:

Is it easier to get a work permit in Europe than the UK? I assume that it is since we became "Little Britain".

I think this is definitely the case, hence the possibility that he will go out on loan to a Euro club.

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