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5 Edition

The Perth Glory Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Perth Glory make Philip Elayo Azango the dearest name in their history

$2.3M. Fees like that buy a footballer and rent a debate: every touch will be measured against the number for a season at least.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Brian Kaltak

109 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Perth Glory lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Transfer targets

Ahmed Abdullahi turns down Perth Glory

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Sunderland keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Transfer targets

Perth Glory rebuffed over Lucas Mauragis

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Central Coast Mariners have kept their man, and Perth Glory go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The terraces

$2.3M for Philip Elayo Azango, and Perth Glory supporters approve

Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Philip Elayo Azango from Spartak Trnava for $2.3M, and a ticket office having a very good morning.

Squad

A falling-out at Perth Glory

Arion Sulemani 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
3 Edition

The Perth Glory Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Perth Glory sell their best player to Newcastle Jets

$1.5M is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $1.5M sale of Sam Sutton

He is going to Newcastle Jets, the club has $1.5M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Transfer targets

Perth Glory make their move for Philip Elayo Azango

$2.3M on the table at Spartak Trnava. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Market

Central Coast Mariners come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Perth Glory did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Boardroom

Perth Glory go back to the board over Lawrence Wong

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $100.1K — a club that wants Lawrence Wong enough to be asked twice.

Market

Perth Glory sign Ben Warland for $110.0K

The paperwork is done: Ben Warland joins from Brisbane Roar in a deal worth $110.0K. Now comes the harder part.

Squad

Harry Sawyer 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 Perth Glory this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Andriano Lebib attracts admirers

The name of Andriano Lebib has come up in conversations Perth Glory were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Words at Perth Glory training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stefan Colakovski is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief