The Brisbane Roar Chronicle
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Too dear: Brisbane Roar walk away from Saidy Janko
$1.5M was the most the club would pay and Young Boys were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Brisbane Roar
Sebit Ngor 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Lawrence Wong
Brisbane Roar asked and Melbourne City said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market10 Aug 2026
Brisbane Roar promote Nicholas Marshall from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Nicholas Marshall 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
One of our own: Owen Hamilton joins the Brisbane Roar first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Owen Hamilton is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Cooper Bell steps up from the Brisbane Roar academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Cooper Bell 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
- Market Jake Scott steps up from the Brisbane Roar academy
- Squad Too much change too quickly at Brisbane Roar
- Squad Marc Tokich is a square peg at Brisbane Roar
- Squad Words at Brisbane Roar training over how hard people work