Cooper Henderson

Striker - Adelaide United
4 Sep 2026
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Marked for Cooper Henderson

4 Edition

The Adelaide United Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market24 Aug 2026

Terms done: Max Vartuli is going

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

Market24 Aug 2026

Macarthur FC come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Adelaide United did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market24 Aug 2026

Max Vartuli puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Adelaide United, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market24 Aug 2026

Business is business: Vinko Stanisic goes

Melbourne Victory paid $190.0K and Adelaide United took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Adelaide United rebuffed over Noah Botic

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Panathinaikos have kept their man, and Adelaide United go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad24 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Adelaide United

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

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Adelaide United try to borrow Zois Karargyris

AEK have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Cooper Henderson signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Cooper Henderson commits to Adelaide United for another 3 years.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Adrien Thibaut remains an outsider

A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Adelaide United would admit. It shows on Saturdays.

In brief

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The Adelaide United Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market17 Aug 2026

Auckland FC come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Adelaide United did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Door shut on Lawrence Wong

Adelaide United asked and Melbourne City said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Ryan Kitto 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.

Market17 Aug 2026

Macarthur FC watching Max Vartuli

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Adelaide United have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

A loan move for Benjamin Mazzeo is in the works

Adelaide United have made the call to Melbourne City. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Adelaide United try to borrow Adrien Thibaut

Levadiakos have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Squad17 Aug 2026

The formation has left Alessandro Lopane behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Adelaide United will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Joshua Smits 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 Adelaide United have no good answer.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Somebody is after Juan Muñiz’s shirt

A new face in his position, and Juan Muñiz suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Adelaide United have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.

In brief