 After weighing up all the options both here and overseas, this was the right fit for me. I was able to train here for a few weeks as I was sorting out that situation overseas and I really enjoyed my time here. The club really looked after me. I wanted to be a part of it. Tony, he's played overseas and he's played under a lot of top coaches and I think he takes a lot of those qualities into his own training. The two weeks that I experienced here was fantastic. It's as good as I've experienced anywhere overseas. Last season the defence was great but like any top team or any team that wants to be successful you need that competition for spots and that depth. With the Asian Champions League next year as well, I'm sure we'll need a good squad. The 12 months I spent in the Middle East, I think it was a great experience. It was a different culture, a different lifestyle. Football-wise I think it doesn't get the credit it deserves. There's a lot of top quality players playing over there and as a defender coming up against the likes of Raoul and those guys is always a challenge. Coming back to the A-League, it's a good league and I think it's the ideal preparation if I want to go to the World Cup. It adds a lot of depth in our squad. He's a quality player and we've got two quality centre-backs and it just brings a lot of competition and to do well in both competitions this year we need that depth and I think it's a great signing for our club. He trained with us for a little while back five, six weeks ago and we just helped him out with some training and he fitted in very well. At that time we had no thought that we'd have a chance of signing him but as the weeks progressed the opportunity became available that we could sign Matt and we're delighted that we can bring him back here and I'm sure he'll fit in very quickly because he knows the players already and how we work and he'll be a great addition. He adds first and foremost quality and he's a player that he wants to go to the World Cup. We've got two other centre-backs that would love to go to the World Cup as well so we're very pleased to have him and we're sure his qualities will be shown throughout the year. Now he's joined us, he's a part of us and we'll know quickly he's a fit boy so he shouldn't take him too long. It's great to have flexibility and we want to have a strong squad and we want to get better and we feel that all of our additions this year make us a better squad and Matt does that also.