Will Kennedy

Striker - Sydney FC U18
1 Sep 2028
Friday
Process

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90 Edition

The Sydney FC Gazette

17 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Sydney FC are in among the leaders

Position 2 and 35 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Squad

A row about effort at Sydney FC

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Apostolos Stamatelopoulos was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Loan watch

Tiago Quintal counts the days

“I watch every Sydney FC game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Newcastle Jets runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Squad

Thabiso Msele 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 Sydney FC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

No hiding place for Mitchell Glasson

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mitchell Glasson, and the manager let it.

Market

The Víctor Campuzano question follows Sydney FC around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Víctor Campuzano’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout

Ryan White has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Ryan White has written the date down.

The dugout

Dylan Scicluna asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Squad

Reagan Ogle finally belongs at Sydney FC

The language has come, the shrug has gone, and he argues in training like a man who expects to be here next year. None of it shows up on a fee and all of it shows up on the pitch.

In brief

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65 Edition

The Sydney FC Gazette

25 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

5 matches without a win for Sydney FC

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Sydney FC are no longer polite ones.

The dugout

Henry Blackledge: 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.” Sydney FC have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings

Al Hassan Touré was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 24. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

Words exchanged at Sydney FC

Víctor Campuzano 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.

Boardroom

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Sydney FC

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Match

Wellington Phoenix take the points off Sydney FC

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

Filip Kurto gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market

Sydney FC promote Robbie Johnston from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Robbie Johnston has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: Joel Green joins the Sydney FC first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Joel Green is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief