Declan Lee

Striker - Western Sydney Wanderers
29 Nov 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Declan Lee

16 Edition

The Western Sydney Wanderers Chronicle

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at Western Sydney Wanderers

Ben Mewett was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

The dugout

Gianni Stensness knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Gianni Stensness trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Amlani Tatu

“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.

Looking ahead

Nikola Mileusnic faces his old club

Perth Glory next, and one man in the Western Sydney Wanderers dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

Squad

Jordan Holmes wants to know why he earns less

Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and Western Sydney Wanderers have no good answer.

Looking ahead

Western Sydney Wanderers host Perth Glory

Next up at home: Perth Glory, who go into it in position 4. The kind of fixture a season is quietly built on or quietly loses its shape in.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Western Sydney Wanderers Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Alex Gersbach out for 89 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.

Market

Aidan Simmons asks to leave Western Sydney Wanderers

“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.

Squad

8 new faces, and Western Sydney Wanderers are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Squad

A falling-out at Western Sydney Wanderers

Amlani Tatu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Owen Hill signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Owen Hill commits to Western Sydney Wanderers for another 3 years.

The dugout

Owen Hill 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.

In brief