The Sydney FC Gazette
Squad27 Oct 2031
Liam Lloyd damages knee ligaments — 55 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 55 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.
Player ratings27 Oct 2031
Both of them Louis Verstraete's — 8.29
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.29, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings27 Oct 2031
Daniel Msendami runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market27 Oct 2031
Cameron Peupion asks to leave Sydney FC
“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.
The dugout27 Oct 2031
Malual Nichola: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Sydney FC have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Boardroom27 Oct 2031
Sydney FC tie Shane Harrison down
A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.
Squad27 Oct 2031
A falling-out at Sydney FC
Louis Verstraete and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom27 Oct 2031
11 academy graduates step up at Sydney FC
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Market27 Oct 2031
One of our own: Anthony Harris joins the Sydney FC first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Anthony Harris is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Sydney FC promote Nicholas Johnson from within
- Market Simon Thomas steps up from the Sydney FC academy
- Squad A row about effort at Sydney FC