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ANGE Postecoglou will coach his 32nd and final Melbourne Victory game on Friday night before taking on the mission of leading Australia to the World Cup, after a deal was finally struck for him to succeed Holger Osieck on Tuesday night.
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Days of often heated talks between Football Federation Australia and Victory ended with Frank Lowy agreeing to pay Victory just $50k for "transition costs", despite the club initially demanding close to $1 million in compensation for losing their coach.
It's believed that Postecoglou met Lowy in Sydney on Tuesday afternoon and signed a deal that will take in the World Cup and the 2015 Asian Cup and will most likely have the option of extending until Russia 2018.
There remain some details to be agreed, but once they are Postecoglou will formally resign from his position at Victory and be unveiled as Osieck's successor, possibly as early as Wednesday.
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Postecoglou will name his first Socceroos squad within days for a friendly against Costa Rica at Sydney Football Stadium on November 19 that launches the countdown to the World Cup.
But FFA has scrapped plans to play a second friendly despite the temptation of playing a game in Melbourne.
FFA officials on Tuesday night refused to comment but Victory chief executive Ian Robson said that Postecoglou would coach against his former club Brisbane Roar at Etihad Stadium on Friday.
"It's Tuesday night and we're well advanced in our cycle of preparation for Friday night's game so there's nothing that stands in the way of Ange leading the side against Brisbane in what is a very big game for the club," Robson said.
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"Given what's in play by virtue of the conversations we're having, that I'm less certain about (Postecoglou coaching against Wellington Phoenix in Round 4).
"David (Gallop) and I have had a fair number of conversations in the last few days and they are continuing in good faith and we're mindful and respectful of the fact that Ange is under contract.
"This is the FFA's process. I know that Ange is a candidate and we're still in discussions with them."
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Assistant Kevin Muscat, 40, will almost certainly take charge as interim coach for the rest of the A-League season.
Victory are understood to be privately seething about FFA's insistence on paying a nominal compensation fee to Victory for Postecoglou, who was earning over $600,000-a-year.
The complication arose because Postecoglou did not insert a 'career-advancement clause' in his contract catering for a Socceroos approach when he signed with Victory last year.
Ironically Victory was allowed to poach Postecoglou for nothing off the back of successive A-League titles because he had not signed a contract despite verbally agreeing to a deal until 2014 with FFA who owned Roar at the time of the agreement.
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The governing body's desperation to make the appointment this week was compounded by the fact that, after the upcoming friendlies, the Socceroos won't play again until the next FIFA international window in March.
Postecoglou's appointment caps a remarkable transformation for the man who was unemployable, following a seven-year spell coaching the Australian Joeys (Under 17s) and Young Socceroos (Under 20s) that drew criticism for poor results.
Postecoglou, capped four times by Australia, won two national titles with South Melbourne and most recently two more with Brisbane Roar.
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