United missed the Football South Coast premier league finals in 2019 and president Peter Vrtkovski admits the side struggled to score enough goals. The club hopes Terzic can rectify that issue this season.

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"We probably lacked a bit of quality up front... so we've gone and signed a really good striker in Dinko Terzic from Coniston," Vrtkovski said.

"We've also a signed a very good ex-Wolves, Macarthur Rams player in Danny Lazarevski. He's very versatile, he can play around the back. We'll be announcing one or two more [recruits] in the next week or two. We also had a pretty good pre-season in December, we trained very, very hard.

"We've been one of the most successful youth grade squads in the past few years. We won the club championship, our 23s came first, our 20s came first, we had plenty of Golden Boot and individual award winners. We're excited for the future."

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