“No, the only rule is you make rules to improve the football,” the Dutchman said. “It’s also the money, all the people here are more expensive.

“Younger players, it starts with a low contract [but] you can’t sell players to other Australian clubs, that’s also different in Europe. Many young players at the end of the contract you have to give him more money otherwise he will go, that’s also strange.

“So, if you do your job well and it’s going like this and Louis is in two or three years, he is 21, he is an experienced player in that position. He’s interesting, he’s running out of contract and he’s interesting for every team in the A-League, maybe an Asian club.

“So, there have to be changes in the A-League, some rules."

Without missing a beat, the 57-year-old’s thoughts then turned to two further bugbears – an uneven schedule and playing in hot conditions.

“It’s also different that we now play for the third time Victory,” Verbeek went on.

“We also have three times Sydney. We have two times Perth I believe. Some teams you have three times, sometimes two. That’s also strange. It’s not honest.

“But they are the rules here and I come here and I’m a foreigner, so I know before I started the rules are like that. But I don’t think it will help to improve the quality of football.

“That’s the same with the playing in the heat. I’ve played games that are 38C or 39C at three or four in the afternoon. Why don’t we play later in the evening? At 7 o’clock? I think it’s even dangerous for players.

“I say it’s much nicer when the temperature is a bit lower than 38 or 39 degrees.

“When you have a duel and somebody is grabbing to his head, the referee has to stop because maybe it's dangerous for the player, but then we let players play in 38, 39 degrees.

“So, I don’t understand what’s going on with the health of the players. Always most important is the health of the players. But I’m not the man who is going over the rules so I can sometimes cry something if you ask me.

“They don’t listen to us. We as trainers, they don’t ask us. Nobody is asking us.

“The owners don’t, the PFA don’t – they only listen to Fox.

“And they are paying, so we have to listen. The ones who pay decides. That’s everywhere in life. Only in a marriage, it doesn’t work like that.”