Akol Akon

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Sydney FC
2 Dec 2027
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59 Edition

The Sydney FC Gazette

13 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market13 Sep 2027

Lawrence Wong is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Sydney FC is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Lawrence Wong is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Takahiro Sekine 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.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Gabriel Cléùr has improved at 29, 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. 4 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Squad13 Sep 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.

The dugout13 Sep 2027

Takahiro Sekine gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Takahiro Sekine is on it.

In brief

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54 Edition

The Sydney FC Gazette

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match9 Aug 2027

Sydney FC are in among the leaders

Position 2 and 37 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Squad9 Aug 2027

Takahiro Sekine wants to go home

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

Squad9 Aug 2027

A falling-out at Sydney FC

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

Squad9 Aug 2027

Akol Akon is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad9 Aug 2027

A row about effort at Sydney FC

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ben Warland was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout9 Aug 2027

Filip Kurto 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.

Market9 Aug 2027

Harrison Devenish-Meares is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Sydney FC has been clear about where Harrison Devenish-Meares stands, which is more than many ever get.

Market9 Aug 2027

Brendan Hamill brings the grey hairs Sydney FC lacked

At 34, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.

The dugout9 Aug 2027

Lawrence Wong knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Sydney FC, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

45 Edition

The Sydney FC Gazette

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets7 Jun 2027

Sydney FC bid $2.0M for Christian Theoharous

The offer went to Central Coast Mariners this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets7 Jun 2027

Sydney FC make their move for Louis Verstraete

$1.9M on the table at Auckland FC. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Market7 Jun 2027

Seth Clark asks to leave Sydney FC

“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.

The dugout7 Jun 2027

Mitchell Glasson keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Sydney FC may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market7 Jun 2027

Auckland FC come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Sydney FC did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market7 Jun 2027

Sydney FC sign Panagiotis Kikianis for $800.0K

The paperwork is done: Panagiotis Kikianis joins from Adelaide United in a deal worth $800.0K. Now comes the harder part.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Home is on Takahiro Sekine's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Sydney FC are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Words exchanged at Sydney FC

Takahiro Sekine and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Akol Akon signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Akol Akon and Sydney FC agree another 4 years.

In brief