Will Webb

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266 Edition

The Western Sydney Wanderers Chronicle

1 Sep 2031
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad1 Sep 2031

A career in one shirt: Jarrod Carluccio

11 seasons and 146 appearances, all of them here. Careers like this are not designed; they happen to a certain kind of man at a certain kind of club, and this town has one.

Boardroom1 Sep 2031

Deadline passes with 11 signed and 13 gone

That is the business done at Western Sydney Wanderers until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Squad1 Sep 2031

The step up is real for Tim Flynn

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.

Squad1 Sep 2031

Words exchanged at Western Sydney Wanderers

Angus Thurgate 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.

The dugout1 Sep 2031

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Transfer targets1 Sep 2031

Door shut on Thulani Manyama

Western Sydney Wanderers asked and Mamelodi Sundowns said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market1 Sep 2031

Melbourne City expected to open talks for Reece Anderson

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Western Sydney Wanderers will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Squad1 Sep 2031

Nicholas Fisher signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Nicholas Fisher and Western Sydney Wanderers agree another 4 years.

Transfer targets1 Sep 2031

Western Sydney Wanderers try to borrow Jamie Crawford

Melbourne City 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.

In brief

Back issues
265 Edition

The Western Sydney Wanderers Chronicle

25 Aug 2031
From our football correspondent Steady

Market25 Aug 2031

Bailey O'Neil asks to leave Western Sydney Wanderers

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market25 Aug 2031

Chris O'Neill has said yes to Macarthur FC

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Western Sydney Wanderers have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Squad25 Aug 2031

Remember the name: Reece Anderson

He is 18, he is averaging 7.04, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.

Market25 Aug 2031

Vegalta Sendai come back empty-handed

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

Transfer targets25 Aug 2031

The paperwork begins on Jamie Crawford

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Western Sydney Wanderers have done the hard part with Melbourne City, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad25 Aug 2031

A falling-out at Western Sydney Wanderers

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

Squad25 Aug 2031

The step up is real for James Miller

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.

Transfer targets25 Aug 2031

Western Sydney Wanderers rebuffed over Logan Parker

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Newcastle Jets have kept their man, and Western Sydney Wanderers go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Transfer targets25 Aug 2031

Western Sydney Wanderers ask about Thulani Manyama

A loan enquiry to Mamelodi Sundowns: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

In brief

251 Edition

The Western Sydney Wanderers Chronicle

19 May 2031
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad19 May 2031

Jarrod Carluccio breaks a bone — 34 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 34 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

The dugout19 May 2031

Will Webb: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Western Sydney Wanderers have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad19 May 2031

Words exchanged at Western Sydney Wanderers

Angus Thurgate 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.

The dugout19 May 2031

The manager makes an example of Peceli Sukabula

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout19 May 2031

Dale Reid has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Western Sydney Wanderers 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.

Squad19 May 2031

“I want to play”: Peceli Sukabula speaks

“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.

In brief