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While watching the second half of the Brisbane vs Adelaide match last weekend, one remark from Fox Sports commentator Andy Harper regarding the A-League’s marquee player rules stuck with me.

His view on the current system is that it may be more beneficial for a club, both in the short and long-term, to take a promising talent from overseas and develop them into a marquee player (much like Thomas Broich at Brisbane and Carlos Hernandez at the Victory) rather than buying an ageing former star whose skills are nowhere near as good as they once were and making them the marquee, in order to reap some short term benefits in the stands (much like Robbie Fowler at Perth this season, and at the Fury last season).

Whilst I find myself often both disagreeing and mocking Harper for some of his views on the world game, and laughing hysterically at his tortured analogies and mixed metaphors … Continue Reading