The Adelaide United Chronicle
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
- Squad Mpho Khethang signs on for more
- The dugout Blake Collins answers for it
- The dugout A promise honoured for Ryan Kitto