The Sydney FC Gazette
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Sydney FC
Filip Kurto 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Sydney FC baulk at the price for Lawrence Wong
Melbourne City wanted more than $100.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Apostolos Stamatelopoulos 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Sydney FC rebuffed over Max Vartuli
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Adelaide United have kept their man, and Sydney FC go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Sydney FC try to borrow Josh Thomas
Swansea 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tim White stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Tim White and Sydney FC agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
In brief
- The dugout Tim White knocks on the manager's door
- Squad Abel Walatee is training like a man with a point to make