Mpho Khethang

Central Defender - Adelaide United
29 May 2027
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42 Edition

The Adelaide United Chronicle

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad17 May 2027

A fracture rules Anselmo out for 82 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Adelaide United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

The dugout17 May 2027

Adrian Cummings says Adelaide United went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad17 May 2027

Dylan Pierias 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 Adelaide United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad17 May 2027

Words at Adelaide United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ajak Riak 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.

Squad17 May 2027

Ryan White signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ryan White and Adelaide United agree another 4 years.

The dugout17 May 2027

When it matters, Juan Muñiz 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.

In brief

Back issues
27 Edition

The Adelaide United Chronicle

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match30 Jan 2027

Adelaide United taken apart

0‑3 to Brisbane Roar, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Boardroom1 Feb 2027

Deadline passes with 2 signed and 2 gone

That is the business done at Adelaide United until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Squad1 Feb 2027

Bart Vriends wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Adelaide United can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Squad1 Feb 2027

Mpho Khethang arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Mpho Khethang has, at Adelaide United, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad1 Feb 2027

A falling-out at Adelaide United

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

Transfer targets1 Feb 2027

Door shut on Joe Knowles

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

Loan watch1 Feb 2027

Max Vartuli has seen enough of Newcastle Jets

“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 Adelaide United, and 0 appearances in 25 say he has earned the hearing.

The dugout1 Feb 2027

Anselmo gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Boardroom1 Feb 2027

Nobody left the Adelaide United dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

In brief