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Edition
The Perth Glory Sentinel
28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
The step up is real for Arion Sulemani
At 21 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Perth Glory
Brian Kaltak and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Lachlan Jackson has improved at 31, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
In brief
- Squad 11 new faces, and Perth Glory are still learning each other
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Charbel Shamoon
- The dugout Mark Birighitti knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout Riley Foxe keeps his manager's vote