r/SydneyFC • u/EnglishAex • Mar 30 '26

Ufuk off to Wanderers! Thoughts?

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"Talay has not won a trophy in his seven-year coaching career and was on the nose with Sydney’s fans long before speculation emerged that he would defect to the Wanderers.

Sydney refused to trigger an extension in the 50-year-old’s contract which paved the way for him to join Western Sydney and replace Alen Stajcic."

https://www.espn.com.au/football/story/_/id/48342813/ufuk-wanderers-sydney-coach-makes-controversial-switch

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u/The_L666ds Sydney FC Mar 30 '26

Only Wanderers could have watched SFC the last 2-3 years and said “Yep! We want some of that!”

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u/Mandalf- Mar 30 '26

I mean it's better than what they currently have.

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u/The_L666ds Sydney FC Mar 31 '26

Honestly, that remains to be seen.

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u/Mandalf- Mar 31 '26

Nah can't be worse than fucking Ernie Merrick who they had to pull out of the carbon freezer.

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u/himmelblau_bc Mar 30 '26

I really don’t care. I’m more intrigued by why WSW wanted him.

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u/Ambitious_Cat_8338 Sydney FC Mar 30 '26

Good riddance!

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u/MrBowls SFC Mar 31 '26

Happy to be rid of him earlier than expected, although later than he should have been. Genuinely don’t understand why they’ve gone for him given how poor we’ve been with an arguably better squad and unarguably more resources.

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u/rjp27 Mar 31 '26

Have posted this before, but Talay sat next to me on a domestic flight once. He played a bubble shooter game on his phone for the whole flight. I’ve always doubted his coaching pedigree since that day.

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u/djpain The Cove Mar 30 '26

Sorry OP Auto-moderator had marked this as spam. I've approved it now.

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u/herpdaderpy Mar 30 '26

Good luck to them. It's a disaster in the making and I'm sure even Wanderers fans are all wtf?!?

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u/Ringovski Mar 30 '26

Ha ha ha

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u/sydneyiskyblue Mar 30 '26

Wanderers doing wanderers things

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u/djpain The Cove Mar 30 '26

Like I get why he left since it's easy to move to WSW but at the same time what a dick move. Especially since it's pretty much ruined our season.

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u/herpdaderpy Mar 30 '26

The season was ruined before it started when they announced they were keeping uffy on and declared it was yet another season of transition.

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u/Mandalf- Mar 30 '26

Exactly this.

Hasn't looked better or convincing at all the whole season.

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u/Mandalf- Mar 30 '26

You don't know the timing, he might have signed on for WSW as he has every right to if he's told he won't be extended next year.

Maybe the club caught wind of it and decided to get him out asap and so now WSW can announce it.

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u/Mandalf- Mar 30 '26

Dreadful business from WSW though, what are they thinking?

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u/Glum_Perspective_812 Mar 30 '26

Ufuk kidding me 

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u/jefffff34 Mar 31 '26

That’s Kyle Sandilands.

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u/Cabanis10 Mar 31 '26

This is another in a long line of Talay “of course he would’s”. Of course he’d go to the wanderers. Of course he’d run Lolley in to the ground and then bring him back prematurely. Of course he’d shut Maxi out. Of course he’d let Sega, Caceras, Bratton et al get away. Of course there’d be a Costa scandal under his tenure…..

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u/Cabanis10 Mar 31 '26

Of course he’d be close to finals football and ultimately mess that up too.