Ante Jazic

Good question IVO, currently Jazic is sitting out a three game ban after a very bad tackle in one of the league games but what is more important is the fact that he isn't really a regular for his team Rapid. IMO his performances so far have been quite average but he's definately not a bad player. Maybe Quentin can tell you more of the inside stories as he is a Rapid supporter.

He managed to secure a regularly first team place.
But that´s also caused by the lack of other left sided players at Rapid, of course.

MxPx said:

He managed to secure a regularly first team place.

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Really? Must have missed that, well I'm not a specialist bout Rapid.

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Anyway, healthy again Mx?

Thatz true, Jazic is in the starting 11 almost every weekend, but at the moment he is banned.
Jazic has a very good stamina, he runs like a machine, but he is too defensive in my opinion.

Matthäus is no fan of him. I heard Jazic, Lederer and Taument will be sold.

Zingler and Freund may be sold too. Perhaps also Wagner and Schiesswald....

And who should replace them? Rapid won't be able to play with a 18-man-squad...

Is Lagonikakis staying?

Gaston Taument is a joke though... He played one season for OFI here in Greece and was always on the bench... can't believe a team like Rapid gave him a contract.

AMOROSO! said:

Is Lagonikakis staying?

Gaston Taument is a joke though... He played one season for OFI here in Greece and was always on the bench... can't believe a team like Rapid gave him a contract.

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Guess not, Amo, Lagonikakis is out of contract by the end of June and it seems that Rapid won't renew it.

And btw it is not strange that Rapid gave him a contract as the team is a joke too.

and I think that Rapid won't be able to sell Lagonikakis, Zingler, Taument, Schießwald, Freund or Vico as they are all out of contract by June.

Well they could of course sell Lederer, but I strongly doubt that any team is really interested in him. Remember not even a Greek second division team wanted him after a trial in February and I think he would have been granted a free transfer.

Replacements: Parapatits, Piric, Kühbauer, Hoffmann and maybe Mair (only if we don't want him though). Not the biggest of names, but better than the ones to be sold...

I thought Didi Kubhauer is a very decent player. Or was at least in Spain. Shouldn't he be considered something like a "very good signing" for Rapid?

Kühbauer is ok., but 31 and declining. And he should have offers from other German clubs, so he won't be cheap...

AMOROSO! said:

Is Lagonikakis staying?

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Maybe at the Strafsenat. (=senat to decide on penalties after a player has been sent off)

- Kühbauer seems absolutely out of form; I doubt he'll be much more than some mental help as is Herzog. (But be sure Krankl will call him as soon as he signs a contract...)
- Mair is finished, imo.
- How could they afford Parapatits?
- Who are Piric and Hoffmann?

onimaci, don't forget that there are lower division teams too. (But should there...?) Maybe an outfit like ...say FAC... would give some cents for Lederer.

Hoffmann is a midfielder from Bayern Amateure and Piric a central defender from Croatia (I guess from NK Zagreb). If Wallner will be sold (I'm sure it will be Jara who buys him), there should be money for Parapatits, who is a great talent, but no one to lead a strikeforce at such an age...

So Lagonikakis is leaving Rapid to sign for Real Madrid? That Helguera dude looks so average...

Anyway, will any Austrian team please sign him in order to relieve the Greek league from a crap player who enjoys kung fu tackles?

Oh, that's the name of the Bavarian bloke. So you're sure Matthäus will stay...
...and considering Wallner's probable departure - I don't think they'll get that much money because of his current form. Jara could be interested in some free agents of Tirol instead though...

AMOROSO! said:

So Lagonikakis is leaving Rapid to sign for Real Madrid? That Helguera dude looks so average...

Anyway, will any Austrian team please sign him in order to relieve the Greek league from a crap player who enjoys kung fu tackles?

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Ask Baric!
Or Kartnig as Koutsoupias (or whatever his name was) just can't be his last try to find Greek "quality" players.

tgv325 said:

onimaci, don't forget that there are lower division teams too. (But should there...?) Maybe an outfit like ...say FAC... would give some cents for Lederer.

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Very true, Paul. I could ad some other candidates like FC Cairo, Egypt United or Juwelen Janecka (all teams play in the Vienna Unterhaus btw)