Noah Sutton

Defensive Midfielder - Waitakere United
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The Waitakere United Sentinel

12 Aug 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Aleksandar Gacinovic

23 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Waitakere United lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Liberato Garbett agrees terms with WaiBOP United

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Waitakere United people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market

Clayton Smith asks to leave Waitakere United

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Words exchanged at Waitakere United

Owen Barbarouses 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.

Squad

Words at Waitakere United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Liberato Garbett is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

Deklan Fenton signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Deklan Fenton commits to Waitakere United for another 2 years.

The dugout

Oliver Van Hattum gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Oliver Van Hattum is on it.

Market

Oliver Barbarouses linked with a move away

The name of Oliver Barbarouses keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Waitakere United say nothing, which says plenty.

Match

Continental football is in reach for Waitakere United

15 points from position 4. The title is somebody else’s business and the drop is somebody else’s problem; what is left is the argument about passports.

In brief

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210 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

5 Aug 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Aleksandar Gacinovic damages knee ligaments — 30 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 30 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

The dugout

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Market

WaiBOP United join the queue for Liberato Garbett

Add another name to the list: WaiBOP United have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Liberato Garbett. The answer from Waitakere United has not changed — yet.

Squad

Oliver Van Hattum signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Oliver Van Hattum commits to Waitakere United for another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Waitakere United

Owen Barbarouses 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 targets

Waitakere United rebuffed over Taniela Baledrokadroka

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Hawke's Bay United have kept their man, and Waitakere United go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Words at Waitakere United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matt Cacace is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The dugout

Kosta De Vries has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Waitakere United will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market

The Owen Barbarouses talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Waitakere United know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief