The Auckland City Post
Market28 Jun 2027
Nathan Lobo has said yes to WaiBOP United
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Auckland City have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Match28 Jun 2027
The view from the top for Auckland City
28 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.
Market28 Jun 2027
Alfie Rogers asks to leave Auckland City
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Real improvement from Jeremy Foo at Auckland City
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Jeremy Foo is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad28 Jun 2027
David Yoo 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 Auckland City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Jun 2027
A late step up for Nikko Boxall
At 35 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
Door shut on Arion Sulemani
Auckland City asked and Melbourne City said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Matt Ellis falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
No hiding place for Nathan Lobo
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nathan Lobo, and the manager let it.
In brief
- The dugout Nathan Lobo gets picked when it counts
- The dugout A door opens for Jeremy Foo
- The dugout Dane Van Hattum asks for a word with the manager