Ryan De Vries

Goalkeeper - Free Agent
7 Aug 2030
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Process

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150 Edition

The WaiBOP United Gazette

11 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

WaiBOP United are in real trouble now

Position 7, 2 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Transfer targets

Cameron Wood will not be coming to WaiBOP United

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Southern United is saying, and nobody at WaiBOP United is enjoying the guessing.

Squad

Words exchanged at WaiBOP United

Jago Godden 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.

Squad

Words at WaiBOP United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joe Sutton 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.

Squad

Joe Sutton stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Joe Sutton and WaiBOP United agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

A promise honoured at WaiBOP United

Something was said to Kai Edwards and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

Transfer targets

WaiBOP United try to borrow Areya Prasad

Auckland City have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Ben Rufer is in the works

WaiBOP United have made the call to Hawke's Bay United. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Market

Kai Edwards runs his contract down

3 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs WaiBOP United money.

In brief

Back issues
137 Edition

The WaiBOP United Gazette

12 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A row about effort at WaiBOP United

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

Squad

Tempers go at WaiBOP United

Joe Sutton 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.

The dugout

Stefan Just 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 Stefan Just trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief