Marcus King

Central Midfielder - Free Agent
4 Aug 2028
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Marked for Marcus King

22 Edition

The Auckland FC Sentinel

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad28 Dec 2026

Words exchanged at Auckland FC

Hiroki Sakai 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.

Squad28 Dec 2026

Words at Auckland FC training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Louis Verstraete 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.

Match26 Dec 2026

A bad afternoon for Auckland FC against Adelaide United

1‑2 to Adelaide United, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad28 Dec 2026

Auckland FC lose Marcus King

33 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Match26 Dec 2026

Adelaide United end the Auckland FC run at 4

Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 4 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.

Boardroom28 Dec 2026

Wages swallow 117% of the Auckland FC income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

The dugout28 Dec 2026

Patrick Turner faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Patrick Turner after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Player ratings28 Dec 2026

Louis Verstraete beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 14. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Looking ahead28 Dec 2026

Auckland FC take on the side everybody is chasing

Sydney FC arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.

In brief

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The Auckland FC Sentinel

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad26 Oct 2026

Luis Felipe Gallegos damages knee ligaments — 25 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 25 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match24 Oct 2026

Auckland FC win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 93th minute. Perth Glory will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Player ratings26 Oct 2026

A defender's goal wins it for Auckland FC — 7.77

1 for Daniel Hall, marked 7.77, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Boardroom26 Oct 2026

Graduation day at Auckland FC

2 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Goal number 100 for Jesse Randall

100 goals in these colours now, every one of them somebody’s memory. There is a supporter in the stand who can tell you where he was for most of them.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Words at Auckland FC training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Louis Verstraete 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.

Player ratings26 Oct 2026

Lachlan Brook beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match24 Oct 2026

Auckland FC get the job done against Perth Glory

A 2‑1 win over Perth Glory, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Market26 Oct 2026

Auckland FC promote Darren Spencer from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Darren Spencer 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.

In brief