Marcus Harrison

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Free Agent
17 May 2029
Thursday
Process

Marked for Marcus Harrison

108 Edition

The Macarthur FC Chronicle

21 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Henrique Oliveira asks to leave Macarthur FC

“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.

Squad

The step up is real for Marley Leuluai

At 21 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 targets

Niko Ivanković due for a Macarthur FC medical

Everything agreed with Catania, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

A falling-out at Macarthur FC

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

Transfer targets

Door shut on Ethan Gold

Macarthur FC asked and Sheffield United said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Chris Ikonomidis has improved at 33, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Squad

Words at Macarthur FC training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Liam Rose 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.

The dugout

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The dugout

Liam Rose is still paying for one afternoon at Macarthur FC

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

In brief

Back issues
55 Edition

The Macarthur FC Chronicle

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Nathan Paull out for 30 days

30 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Macarthur FC lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad

Real improvement from Sebastian Kršlović at Macarthur FC

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Sebastian Kršlović is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

A falling-out at Macarthur FC

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

Transfer targets

Macarthur FC rebuffed over Matt Dench

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Perth Glory have kept their man, and Macarthur FC go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

A move Lachlan Middleton would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Lachlan Middleton is living that version at Macarthur FC, and it tends to show in the first month.

Market

One of our own: Nathan Anderson joins the Macarthur FC first team

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

Market

Macarthur FC promote Marcus Harrison from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Marcus Harrison 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: Oliver Kelly joins the Macarthur FC first team

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

Market

Macarthur FC promote Jason Wood from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jason Wood 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