Australia NewsSydney's A-League Super Bid |
PREMIER State FC, the second official Sydney A-League bid, say they'd welcome joining forces with Wollongong's financially stricken state league club in a super-bid for inclusion in 2010.
Premier State FC today released an outline of their plans for inclusion in the A-League. This includes playing home games at ANZ Stadium, engaging the grassroots of Sydney's west and for the club to be run by a group of businessmen and women with experience and knowledge of football.The bid says it will meet FFA this week and have a major sponsor "knocking on our door". Premier State also says the proposed deal to play at ANZ will be a "very healthy" one.
And they are looking to potentially expand their borders.
"Our door is open to the Wollongong state league entity to come under our wing... to service the football community's needs and not the egos of a few," bid spokesperson Terry Malecki said.
Debt-ridden Wollongong FC is seen as a key part of the South Coast United A-League bid. How that bid reacts to this hostile move remains to be seen.
"We have marketing people, media people, association execs, agents, sports promoters, stadium management, and others … all committed to making this work," added Malecki.
"Investment enquiries are being fielded from here, Dubai, London and the United States.
"The attraction is that it is marketing-driven, by an enormous market, that has been ignored by 'the other Sydney team'"," said Malecki.
The Premier State FC bid also claims to have spoken with Mark Schwarzer and say they want him as a player, not as a backer.
Other details include tying up a deal with Football NSW to use their $40m training facility at Riverstone, due to be built by late 2011.
And PSFC says local state league "member" clubs and associations and would see more of a financial reward for supplying players to the A-League than the current system.
Although this was not explained, the bid says more details will emerge in the next week or two.
Also bidding for a western Sydney A-League licence is the Lucas Neil-backed group, which is in conjunction with Inspire Sports management company.
Inspire, run by Paddy Dominguez who represents the Socceroo captain, is proposing to play out of Parramatta stadium.
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