The Western Sydney Wanderers Chronicle
Market13 Oct 2031
Only the photograph left for Gabriel Popovic
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Gabriel Popovic will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Western Sydney Wanderers the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad13 Oct 2031
Words at Western Sydney Wanderers training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Angus Thurgate 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.
Market13 Oct 2031
One of our own: Bradley Wright joins the Western Sydney Wanderers first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Bradley Wright is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market13 Oct 2031
Western Sydney Wanderers promote Caleb White from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Caleb White 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.
Market13 Oct 2031
Western Sydney Wanderers promote Owen O'Neill from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Owen O'Neill 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.
Squad13 Oct 2031
Words exchanged at Western Sydney Wanderers
Zachary De Jesus 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.
The dugout13 Oct 2031
Alfie James gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout13 Oct 2031
Alfie James has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Western Sydney Wanderers 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.
Match13 Oct 2031
Western Sydney Wanderers in the hunt for Europe
Position 4, 39 points, and a run-in that decides whether next season has Thursday nights in it. Nobody is calling it a race yet, which is what people say during one.
In brief
- Squad Thomas Doyle wants out of the dugout
- The dugout Peter Antoniou has been promised minutes
- Squad Joe Wallis has settled at Western Sydney Wanderers