The Sydney FC Gazette
Market24 Aug 2026
Sydney FC sign Ivan Bašić for $460.0K
The paperwork is done: Ivan Bašić joins from Astana in a deal worth $460.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Sydney FC
Filip Kurto 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Apostolos Stamatelopoulos falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Jarrod Henderson stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jarrod Henderson and Sydney FC agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Ivan Bašić needs a bigger stage
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Sydney FC know which stage they are at.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Daniel Mason
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- The dugout Jarrod Henderson knocks on the manager's door
- The dugout The manager comes out for Takahiro Sekine