The Adelaide United Chronicle
The dugout5 Aug 2030
Daniel Scott: 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.” Adelaide United have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market5 Aug 2030
Ethan Cox asks to leave Adelaide United
“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.
Squad5 Aug 2030
Jonny Yull: 9 seasons and counting
203 appearances across 9 seasons in one shirt. Careers like that are not built on purpose any more, and Adelaide United know exactly what they have.
Transfer targets5 Aug 2030
John Hunter due for a Adelaide United medical
Everything agreed with Manchester City, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets5 Aug 2030
No thanks: Mark Lawrence rejects the move
Adelaide United had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Manchester United, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad5 Aug 2030
Dylan Pierias 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 Adelaide United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets5 Aug 2030
Charleroi tell Adelaide United: Zsombor Riba is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad5 Aug 2030
Words at Adelaide United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jake Najdovski 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 Aug 2030
When it matters, Dylan Pierias plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
In brief
- Market Sipho Ngqakabana told to find a new club
- The dugout Paulo Retre has been promised minutes
- Squad Is this Ryan Kitto’s last season?