The Sydney FC Gazette
Squad8 Oct 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nasreddine Zaâlani
25 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Sydney FC lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market8 Oct 2029
Abel Walatee 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 The request is on a desk at Sydney FC, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad8 Oct 2029
Real improvement from Joe Lacey at Sydney FC
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Joe Lacey is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market8 Oct 2029
Only the photograph left for Craig Baker
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Craig Baker will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Sydney FC the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad8 Oct 2029
Tempers go at Sydney FC
Will Dobson 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.
Squad8 Oct 2029
Words at Sydney FC training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Takahiro Sekine 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.
In brief
- Boardroom $3.2M on the table at Sydney FC
- Market The shop window has Ramadan Mostafa in it
- Market Toby Mitchell leaves for nothing