The Auckland FC Sentinel
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Finn McKenlay: 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.” Auckland FC have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Lachlan Brook beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market18 Jan 2027
Adelaide United watching Cameron Howieson
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Auckland FC have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Louis Verstraete 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.
Match16 Jan 2027
Auckland FC find a way past Perth Glory
Perth Glory made Auckland FC work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Auckland FC count the cost of losing Bryce James
40 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Jonty Bidois
“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.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
The afternoon belonged to Guillermo May
A mark of 7.72, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Auckland FC try to borrow Hosine Bility
Brisbane Roar 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
- The dugout Harrison Davis has his say
- Squad No place for Diesel Herrington in the new shape
- Looking ahead A test against the best for Auckland FC