James Overy

Right Back - Sydney FC
16 Oct 2027
Saturday
Process
Overview Personal Contract News 3 Transfers Relations Events 34 Awards Matches History

Marked for James Overy

63 Edition

The Sydney FC Gazette

11 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad11 Oct 2027

Takahiro Sekine wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Sydney FC know it.

Squad11 Oct 2027

Tempers go at Sydney FC

Clayton Taylor 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.

Loan watch11 Oct 2027

Akol Akon has seen enough of Macarthur FC

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Sydney FC, and 0 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.

The dugout11 Oct 2027

When it matters, Víctor Campuzano plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market11 Oct 2027

The Al Hassan Touré story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Al Hassan Touré signs something — a contract at Sydney FC or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Squad11 Oct 2027

Filip Kurto wants to know why he earns less

Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and Sydney FC have no good answer.

In brief

Back issues
56 Edition

The Sydney FC Gazette

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match23 Aug 2027

Sydney FC are in real trouble now

Position 10, 28 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Clayton Taylor 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 Sydney FC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Words at Sydney FC training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Apostolos Stamatelopoulos 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.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Sydney FC are still strangers to each other

8 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Market23 Aug 2027

Sydney FC sign James Overy, one for the future

James Overy is 19, and Sydney FC have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

The dugout23 Aug 2027

Takahiro Sekine has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Sydney FC will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market23 Aug 2027

Adam Bugarija told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Adam Bugarija has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Sydney FC.

The dugout23 Aug 2027

A promise honoured at Sydney FC

Something was said to Fabian Talladira and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

The dugout23 Aug 2027

Jordan Courtney-Perkins knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Jordan Courtney-Perkins trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

46 Edition

The Manchester United Chronicle

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market14 Jun 2027

Stefanos Tzimas is a Manchester United player

The fee is $67.3M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Brighton drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Market14 Jun 2027

Désiré Doué arrives at Manchester United in a $49.0M statement of intent

There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Manchester United have paid $49.0M for Désiré Doué, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.

Transfer targets14 Jun 2027

Manchester United rebuffed over Ilyas Ansah

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

Squad14 Jun 2027

Désiré Doué gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Désiré Doué has just signed for Manchester United, and for once the answer mattered.

Loan watch14 Jun 2027

The goals keep arriving from Chido Obi’s exile

20 goals in 24 games at Willem II — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Manchester United updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.

Market14 Jun 2027

Marcus Rashford raises the bar for Manchester United

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Manchester United heard it as anything else.

Squad14 Jun 2027

Tempers go at Manchester United

Bruno Fernandes 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.

Boardroom14 Jun 2027

James Overy has agreed to leave Manchester United for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Squad14 Jun 2027

The step up is real for Amir Ibragimov

At 19 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.

In brief