Oliver Boxall

Goalkeeper - Free Agent
9 Mar 2031
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Marked for Oliver Boxall

219 Edition

The Sydney FC Gazette

7 Oct 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Market7 Oct 2030

Quinn MacNicol 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.

Market7 Oct 2030

Only the photograph left for Beckham Baker

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Beckham Baker will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Sydney FC the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad7 Oct 2030

Víctor Campuzano signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Víctor Campuzano commits to Sydney FC for another 2 years.

Squad7 Oct 2030

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.

Squad7 Oct 2030

The step up is real for Robbie Davies

At 19 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.

Squad7 Oct 2030

Words at Sydney FC training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Christian Theoharous 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 dugout7 Oct 2030

Marcel Tisserand 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.

The dugout7 Oct 2030

Christian Theoharous 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.

The dugout7 Oct 2030

Oliver Boxall gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

Back issues
218 Edition

The Sydney FC Gazette

30 Sep 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad30 Sep 2030

A falling-out at Sydney FC

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

The dugout30 Sep 2030

The manager makes an example of Mason Thompson

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad30 Sep 2030

Mason Thompson wants out of the dugout

“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Sydney FC will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.

The dugout30 Sep 2030

When it matters, Apostolos Stamatelopoulos plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout30 Sep 2030

Quinn MacNicol knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Quinn MacNicol trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Squad30 Sep 2030

Christian Theoharous 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.

In brief

215 Edition

The Sydney FC Gazette

9 Sep 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Market9 Sep 2030

Beckham Baker has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Sydney FC they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad9 Sep 2030

Lawrence Wong gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Lawrence Wong has just signed for Sydney FC, and for once the answer mattered.

Market9 Sep 2030

Joe Knowles 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 Sydney FC, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad9 Sep 2030

Marcel Tisserand signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marcel Tisserand commits to Sydney FC for another 2 years.

Squad9 Sep 2030

Real improvement from Thobani Gumede at Sydney FC

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Thobani Gumede is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad9 Sep 2030

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.

Market9 Sep 2030

Oliver Boxall’s move to Central Coast Mariners falls through

The deal that would have taken Oliver Boxall to Central Coast Mariners has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Sydney FC with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

Boardroom9 Sep 2030

Sydney FC agree a free transfer for Massimo Forte

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

The dugout9 Sep 2030

No hiding place for Gethin Jones

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gethin Jones, and the manager let it.

In brief