The Waitakere United Sentinel
Boardroom3 May 2027
Waitakere United put Callum Bell on notice
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Market3 May 2027
Francis Just 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 Waitakere United can pretend not to have heard.
Squad3 May 2027
Tempers go at Waitakere United
Tommy Payne 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.
Squad3 May 2027
Brahim Sabaouni 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.
Squad3 May 2027
Tim Rufer signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tim Rufer commits to Waitakere United for another 3 years.
Squad3 May 2027
Marco Nelson asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
In brief
- Boardroom $817.1K taken back off the Waitakere United table
- Boardroom Waitakere United were not finished after all