The Western Sydney Wanderers Chronicle
Market5 Feb 2029
Harrison Devenish-Meares agrees terms with Brisbane Roar
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Western Sydney Wanderers people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Boardroom5 Feb 2029
Window shuts: 6 in, 1 out at Western Sydney Wanderers
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 6 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad5 Feb 2029
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.
Player ratings5 Feb 2029
Joel Anasmo was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Xavier Bertoncello arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Xavier Bertoncello has, at Western Sydney Wanderers, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Match3 Feb 2029
Perth Glory take the points off Western Sydney Wanderers
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Words at Western Sydney Wanderers training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Germán Ferreyra 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 dugout5 Feb 2029
Amadou Keita 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.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Western Sydney Wanderers lose Caleb Mitchell
27 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
In brief
- The dugout Oscar Edwards faces the questions
- The dugout Lawrence Thomas has become a man the manager trusts
- Market Western Sydney Wanderers and Saidy Janko are talking past each other