The Perth Glory Sentinel
Boardroom8 Mar 2032
Somebody else wants Franco López
Tottenham have made their interest known and Perth Glory have to have a conversation they never wanted. A manager other clubs ask about is a manager whose next contract costs more.
Squad8 Mar 2032
Words exchanged at Perth Glory
Hayden Matthews 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.
Match6 Mar 2032
Melbourne Victory take the points off Perth Glory
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Boardroom8 Mar 2032
103% of the income goes out in wages at Perth Glory
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Player ratings8 Mar 2032
Arion Sulemani runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad8 Mar 2032
Michael Collins signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Michael Collins commits to Perth Glory for another 4 years.
The dugout8 Mar 2032
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Franco López to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout8 Mar 2032
No place for Harry Sawyer on the big day
He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Perth Glory pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.
Squad8 Mar 2032
Arion Sulemani makes the team of the month
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
In brief
- Squad Alex Hughes is the weekend's best young player
- Looking ahead Lachlan Jackson goes back to face Newcastle Jets
- The dugout Harry Sawyer does not fit this one