Brandon Borrello

Right Midfielder - Western Sydney Wanderers
22 Nov 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Brandon Borrello

13 Edition

The Western Sydney Wanderers Chronicle

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

Lawrence Thomas keeps Western Sydney Wanderers in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings

Bozhidar Kraev was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Boardroom

1 academy players handed senior numbers at Western Sydney Wanderers

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Squad

A row about effort at Western Sydney Wanderers

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Germán Ferreyra was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The terraces

One of their own: Oscar Cáceres

He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Market

One of our own: Chris Morgan joins the Western Sydney Wanderers first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Chris Morgan is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Match

Western Sydney Wanderers get the job done against Melbourne Victory

A 1‑0 win over Melbourne Victory, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Jarrod Carluccio signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jarrod Carluccio and Western Sydney Wanderers agree another 3 years.

Squad

7 new faces, and Western Sydney Wanderers are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief

Back issues
12 Edition

The Western Sydney Wanderers Chronicle

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Dylan Scicluna is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Market

Germán Ferreyra wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

Tempers go at Western Sydney Wanderers

Angus Thurgate was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Late improvement for Brandon Borrello

At 31 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 4 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.

Squad

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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Alou Kuol

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

11 Edition

The Western Sydney Wanderers Chronicle

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Oscar Cáceres is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Angus Thurgate in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Western Sydney Wanderers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A late step up for Bozhidar Kraev

At 29 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 4 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

In brief

10 Edition

The Western Sydney Wanderers Chronicle

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Real improvement from Miguel Di Pizio at Western Sydney Wanderers

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Miguel Di Pizio is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

A falling-out at Western Sydney Wanderers

Angus Thurgate and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Late improvement for Alou Kuol

At 25 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 4 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.

In brief

8 Edition

The Western Sydney Wanderers Chronicle

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Real improvement from Dylan Scicluna at Western Sydney Wanderers

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Dylan Scicluna is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Tempers go at Western Sydney Wanderers

Angus Thurgate was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Brandon Borrello has improved at 31, 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.

In brief

7 Edition

The Western Sydney Wanderers Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

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.

Squad

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 targets

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.

Squad

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 targets

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.

Squad

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