Abel Walatee

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Sydney FC
24 Oct 2026
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Marked for Abel Walatee

5 Edition

The Sydney FC Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets31 Aug 2026

Door shut on Mark Assinor

Sydney FC asked and LNZ said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market31 Aug 2026

Gabriel Popovic attracts admirers

The name of Gabriel Popovic has come up in conversations Sydney FC were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad31 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Sydney FC

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

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Sydney FC Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Pogon tell Sydney FC: Paul Mukairu is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Sydney FC

Filip Kurto and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Apostolos Stamatelopoulos 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

2 Edition

The Sydney FC Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Sydney FC rebuffed over Jordan Kadiri

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dender have kept their man, and Sydney FC go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

No deal for Oscar Maritu at that price

Sydney FC offered $1.6M; Yunnan Yukun said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Sydney FC

Takahiro Sekine 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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Abel Walatee signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Abel Walatee commits to Sydney FC for another 4 years.

Market10 Aug 2026

Sydney FC promote Bryce Craig from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Bryce Craig has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Nathan Thomas joins the Sydney FC first team

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

Market10 Aug 2026

Connor Stewart steps up from the Sydney FC academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Connor Stewart has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market10 Aug 2026

Noah McDonald steps up from the Sydney FC academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Noah McDonald has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Squad10 Aug 2026

6 new faces, and Sydney FC 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