The Southern United Herald
Market31 Jul 2028
Dane Barbarouses 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 Southern United can pretend not to have heard.
Market31 Jul 2028
Chris Van Hattum is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Southern United is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Owen Lewis is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 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.
Market31 Jul 2028
Rewa watching Henrique Oliveira
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Southern United have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad31 Jul 2028
A late step up for Marco Garbett
At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Southern United count the cost of losing Clayton De Vries
23 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
In brief
- Squad Winston Barbarouses has become a man the manager trusts
- Market Auckland City expected to open talks for Chris Stamatelopoulos