The Sydney FC Gazette
Squad19 Oct 2026
The step up is real for Akol Akon
At 17 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Sydney FC
Takahiro Sekine 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A late step up for Craig Goodwin
At 34 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Sydney FC training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Craig Goodwin 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.
Looking ahead19 Oct 2026
A reunion for Filip Kurto
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Wellington Phoenix in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Market19 Oct 2026
The Al Hassan Touré talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Sydney FC know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- Looking ahead Sydney FC host Wellington Phoenix
- The dugout Max Walsh keeps his manager's vote