The Wellington Phoenix Gazette
Market4 Jun 2035
Melbourne City come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Wellington Phoenix did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Match4 Jun 2035
Wellington Phoenix up to position 3
39 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market4 Jun 2035
Only the photograph left for Simon Harper
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Simon Harper will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Wellington Phoenix the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market4 Jun 2035
Dylan Green hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Wellington Phoenix can pretend not to have heard.
Squad4 Jun 2035
Tempers go at Wellington Phoenix
Kevin Khan 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.
Transfer targets4 Jun 2035
Wellington Phoenix rebuffed over Luc de Fougerolles
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Panathinaikos have kept their man, and Wellington Phoenix go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad4 Jun 2035
A row about effort at Wellington Phoenix
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Feyzo Kasumović was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market4 Jun 2035
Kevin Khan told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Kevin Khan has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Wellington Phoenix.
The dugout4 Jun 2035
The manager makes an example of Hugh Clark
“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.
In brief
- Transfer targets Wellington Phoenix ask about Matt Murphy
- Transfer targets A loan move for Liam Shaw is in the works
- The dugout When it matters, Will Dobson plays