The Auckland City Post
Match11 Sep 2028
Auckland City up to position 1
36 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Jake Colvey signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jake Colvey commits to Auckland City for another 4 years.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Tempers go at Auckland City
Joel Anasmo 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.
Boardroom11 Sep 2028
Auckland City beat the market to Zhou Tong from Team Wellington
Team Wellington will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Zhou Tong has pre-agreed a move to Auckland City, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Samkelo Mzolo falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Auckland City lose Ryan Rufer
29 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
In brief
- Market The Conor Tracey talk will not go away
- Market Auckland City pick up Kolawole Oladipo for nothing
- Market Auckland City bring in Cameron Sutton on loan
- Market Gerard Garriga leaves for nothing