Sam Just

Left Forward - Adelaide United
7 Sep 2026
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5 Edition

The Adelaide United Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market31 Aug 2026

Fabian Talladira puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Adelaide United, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Real improvement from Alessandro Lopane at Adelaide United

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Alessandro Lopane is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Market31 Aug 2026

Max Vartuli moves on

Newcastle Jets pay $66.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Market31 Aug 2026

Business is business: Vinko Stanisic goes

Wellington Phoenix paid $65.0K and Adelaide United took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Ryan Kitto 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 Adelaide United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Somebody is after Ajak Riak’s shirt

A new face in his position, and Ajak Riak suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Adelaide United have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.

In brief

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5 Edition

The Team Wellington Gazette

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market31 Aug 2026

Bill Lewis hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Team Wellington can pretend not to have heard.

Market31 Aug 2026

Canterbury United come back empty-handed

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

Squad31 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Team Wellington

Owen Smith was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Joe Rufer has improved at 24, 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.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Words at Team Wellington training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jai Singh 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.

Market31 Aug 2026

Waitakere United are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Team Wellington will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

In brief