The Western Sydney Wanderers Chronicle
Squad6 Sep 2032
A fracture rules Angus Thurgate out for 94 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Western Sydney Wanderers will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Boardroom6 Sep 2032
Western Sydney Wanderers write off $95.3K on Gabriel Popovic
He arrived for a fee and leaves for a fraction of it. $95.3K of what Western Sydney Wanderers paid for Gabriel Popovic is money the club will not see again, and the boardroom will be asked about it for two seasons.
Market6 Sep 2032
Caleb White puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Western Sydney Wanderers, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom6 Sep 2032
Window shuts: 0 in, 23 out at Western Sydney Wanderers
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 0 arrived, 23 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market6 Sep 2032
Tokollo Makgolane’s move to Adelaide United falls through
The deal that would have taken Tokollo Makgolane to Adelaide United has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Western Sydney Wanderers with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad6 Sep 2032
Angus Thurgate 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 Western Sydney Wanderers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad6 Sep 2032
Zachary De Jesus in trouble away from the ground
Every paper's favourite story and every manager's least. What happened is being dealt with internally, which is the phrase clubs use when they would rather nobody asked again.
Squad6 Sep 2032
A row about effort at Western Sydney Wanderers
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Victor Barbosa was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout6 Sep 2032
Zach Lisolajski 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 Zach Lisolajski is on it.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Albert Appiah
- The dugout Albert Appiah is still paying for one afternoon at Western Sydney Wanderers
- The dugout Victor Barbosa knocks on the manager’s door