Mitchell Webb

Striker - Free Agent
11 Mar 2032
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269 Edition

The Auckland FC Sentinel

22 Sep 2031
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad22 Sep 2031

Words exchanged at Auckland FC

Louis Verstraete 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.

Squad22 Sep 2031

Words at Auckland FC training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jesse Randall 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 dugout22 Sep 2031

When it matters, Lachlan Brook 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.

Market22 Sep 2031

Sam Cosgrove linked with a move away

The name of Sam Cosgrove keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Auckland FC say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout22 Sep 2031

A door opens for Jordan Iwhiwhu

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

Squad22 Sep 2031

Questions about Marlee Francois on the training pitch

The standards have slipped, and in a building where everybody watches everybody it has not gone unremarked. This is how a player loses a place before he loses one.

In brief

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262 Edition

The Auckland FC Sentinel

4 Aug 2031
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market4 Aug 2031

Terms done: Ethan Cox is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Brisbane Roar waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Auckland FC is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Squad4 Aug 2031

A falling-out at Auckland 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.

Squad4 Aug 2031

A row about effort at Auckland FC

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jesse Randall was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets4 Aug 2031

BK Hacken tell Auckland FC: Tobias Breum-Harild 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.

Boardroom4 Aug 2031

The Auckland FC board find $728.3K for the manager

Money, not words, and it is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending $728.3K well is entirely his problem now.

Squad4 Aug 2031

Home is on Bjorn Adalsteinsson's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Auckland FC are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Transfer targets4 Aug 2031

A loan move for Grant Leveille is in the works

Auckland FC have made the call to LA Galaxy. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

The dugout4 Aug 2031

Jake Brimmer has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Auckland FC will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market4 Aug 2031

The Lachlan Brook story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Lachlan Brook signs something — a contract at Auckland FC or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

261 Edition

The Auckland FC Sentinel

28 Jul 2031
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad28 Jul 2031

Words exchanged at Auckland FC

Louis Verstraete 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.

Market28 Jul 2031

Ethan Cox attracts admirers

The name of Ethan Cox has come up in conversations Auckland FC were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

The dugout28 Jul 2031

When it matters, Lachlan Brook 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.

The dugout28 Jul 2031

Owen Turner 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.

Market28 Jul 2031

Sam Cosgrove linked with a move away

The name of Sam Cosgrove keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Auckland FC say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout28 Jul 2031

Jordan Iwhiwhu has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Jordan Iwhiwhu has written the date down.

The dugout28 Jul 2031

Ethan Cox knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Auckland FC, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad28 Jul 2031

Patrick McKay is settling

A few words of the language, a friend at the next peg, and a training ground that has stopped feeling foreign. Nothing measurable, and everything visible on Saturdays.

Squad28 Jul 2031

Good reports on Sam Cosgrove

The word out of the training ground is that he has been the sharpest man there all week. It is the quietest story a paper carries and it usually runs the week before somebody's run in the side begins.

In brief