The Adelaide United Chronicle
Market10 Aug 2026
Terms done: Max Vartuli is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Newcastle Jets waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Adelaide United is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Gabriel Cléùr gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Gabriel Cléùr has just signed for Adelaide United, and for once the answer mattered.
Market10 Aug 2026
Adelaide United turn down Macarthur FC for Vinko Stanisic
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The paperwork begins on Owen Oseni
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Adelaide United have done the hard part with Plymouth Argyle, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Joel Anasmo turns down Adelaide United
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Craig Goodwin signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Craig Goodwin and Adelaide United agree another 2 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Adelaide United
Joshua Smits 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Adelaide United promote Gavin Wright from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gavin Wright has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Tom Morgan steps up from the Adelaide United academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Tom Morgan has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- The dugout Panagiotis Kikianis gets it from the manager
- Transfer targets Adelaide United ask about Benjamin Mazzeo
- The dugout Juan Muñiz knocks on the manager's door