The Western Sydney Wanderers Chronicle
Market14 Sep 2026
Brandon Borrello puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Western Sydney Wanderers, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The step up is real for Liam Gillion
At 23 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Tate Gordon will not be coming to Western Sydney Wanderers
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Melbourne City is saying, and nobody at Western Sydney Wanderers is enjoying the guessing.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Bozhidar Kraev has improved at 29, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Western Sydney Wanderers baulk at the price for Charbel Shamoon
Perth Glory wanted more than $11.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Germán Ferreyra falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
In brief
- Squad Oscar Cáceres remains an outsider
- Market The market said no: Dylan Scicluna stays put
- The dugout The manager comes out for Bozhidar Kraev