<h1><font size="3">World spies on Reds</font></h1><p class="author"></p><p class="published-date">June 11, 2007 02:15am</p><div class="split-page divider clearfloat"><!--Element not supported - Type: 8 Name: #comment--><div class="content-column-small article floatleft" id="text-big"><p><strong> otential <font color="#0000ff">Socceroo</font> boss Juergen Klinsmann has been using global internet surveillance to keep an eye on Adelaide United and other A-League squads.</strong></p><p>Klinsmann, who has been touted as a strong candidate to lead the Socceroos to the World Cup in 2010, is apparently already doing homework on his next possible assignment - a gig Down Under. </p><p>German football analyst Andreas Simon said Klinsmann had been known to surf the website <font color="#0000ff">www.transfermarkt.de</font> which has listed Adelaide's squad market value at close to $4.4 million. </p><p>The website has a membership of more than 10,000 registered users with the site recording over 250,000 hits last month, Simon revealed. </p><p><font color="#0000ff">"Klinsmann, (Werder Bremen striker) Miroslav Klose and (Chelsea's) Michael Ballack know this site and often keep an eye on it,"</font> Simon said. </p><p>"With the help from thousands of users - even professional player agents can make offers on this very special site. </p><p>"To keep the quality high, information must be proofed by a serious reference otherwise they won't use the information. </p><p>"It's made that way for example so that <font color="#0000ff">the uncle of the green keeper from Bayern Munich</font> can't list AC Milan's Kaka with a figure he just made up." </p><p>Incredibly Adelaide's entire squad could be exchanged for Blackburn Rovers' David Bentley, who is almost worth the entire net worth of United, says Simon. </p><p>Simon said that Germany's Matthias Seidel was the brains behind the transfer market website. </p><p>Seidel is keeping an eye on the world transfer market including most of the A-League clubs except Wellington Phoenix, which is a brand new franchise, via the nation's official transfer market website. </p><p>"Matthias Seidel has been running this site since May 2000," Simon said. </p><p>"He started with nearly no money but nowadays it is his major income." </p><p>Seidel's site rates Perth Glory as the nation's richest club with the squad valued at $7.4m while Central Coast Mariners comes in last at $824,000. </p><p>Glory's Stan Lazaridis has the highest A-League price on his head at $4.5m while Australia's all-time leading goalscorer and Adelaide City player coach Damian Mori, 36, still attracts a $1.2m price tag. </p><p>Adelaide's newest signing Jonas Salley is worth $1.5m, according to the website. </p><p>Seidel's site has only priced Salley, Socceroo Travis Dodd, Dutch import Bobby Petta and new recruit Paul Agostino, who is still listed as a TSV Munich player, in Adelaide's squad. </p><p>Dodd is valued at $741,000, Petta is valued at $1.3m but is heading down the world charts in value while Agostino is worth $824,000. </p><p>Oddly enough Adelaide's other squad members have zero values next to their names. </p><p>Simon said the website was a good indicator for clubs on the hunt for global player bargains. </p><p>"Coaches and managers keep an eye on this site," he said. </p><p>"The news is always up to date and the information - for example of how much a player is worth or when his contract will finish - is 90 per cent accurate." </p><p>Simon said player agents set the initial value of a player's worth around the globe. </p><p>"layer agents pay $25 to get on the website list," he said. </p><p>"Most of them tell Seidel the amount they think the player is worth. </p><p>"Besides this, the site has developed a specially designed software which calculates the age, perspective, quality and contract time of a player. </p><p>"These parameters calculate the worth of a player. </p><p>"You can find a huge data base with information about players, coaches, managers, player agents, biographies and statistics about the European football leagues," Simon said.</p><p></p><p>说实话，整篇没全看懂，好像Klinsi要去执教那个Socceroo，现在在那个网站上查阅一些资料吧。Socceroo是什么队啊？澳大利亚国家队？而且Klinsi去那个网站上冲浪，那个什么分析员又是怎么知道的呢？奇怪的。</p><p>好长好长的一篇，我是看到<font color="#0000ff">"Klinsmann, (Werder Bremen striker) Miroslav Klose and (Chelsea's) Michael Ballack know this site and often keep an eye on it,"</font> 这句一下子激动了的，嘿嘿。另外，<font color="#0000ff">the uncle of the green keeper from Bayern Munich</font> 这个指的是咱们的狮王吗？<img src="images/post/smile/dvbbs/em26.gif" /></p></div></div>
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