The Perth Glory Sentinel
Squad10 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Mark Birighitti
149 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Perth Glory lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
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 Perth Glory, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Matthew Sutton signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Matthew Sutton commits to Perth Glory for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tom Lawrence in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Perth Glory this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
Cameron Cook comes home
The shirt still fits. Cameron Cook is back at Perth Glory, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $77.0K for Alessandro Lopane
Perth Glory have gone to Melbourne City with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Perth Glory rebuffed over Lee Young-Jun
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Grasshopper have kept their man, and Perth Glory go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Damien Scott joins the Perth Glory first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Damien Scott 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
Perth Glory promote Josh Collins from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Josh Collins 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.
In brief
- Market Matt Phillips steps up from the Perth Glory academy
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Matthew Sutton
- The dugout Sam Sutton knocks on the manager's door