Chris Sutton

Striker - Free Agent
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100 Edition

The Canterbury United Gazette

26 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces26 Jun 2028

Anger at Canterbury United spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Boardroom26 Jun 2028

Pressure builds in the Canterbury United boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Match26 Jun 2028

Canterbury United sink to position 7

10 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market26 Jun 2028

Alex Smith asks to leave Canterbury United

“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.

Squad26 Jun 2028

Liberato De Vries 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 Canterbury United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad26 Jun 2028

Words at Canterbury United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Thomas Omole 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.

Market26 Jun 2028

Eyes on Clayton Fenton again

The phone has started ringing about Clayton Fenton again, and this time the name on the line is Hawke's Bay United. Canterbury United are listening politely and promising nothing.

Market26 Jun 2028

Southern United expected to open talks for Callum Lewis

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Canterbury United will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Market26 Jun 2028

Chris Sutton leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Chris Sutton leaves Canterbury United the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

In brief

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46 Edition

The Canterbury United Gazette

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad14 Jun 2027

Owen Lewis damages knee ligaments — 42 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 42 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market14 Jun 2027

Auckland City come back empty-handed

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

Squad14 Jun 2027

Stefan Just is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 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.

In brief