Liam Simpson

Central Defender - Sydney FC U18
12 May 2029
Saturday
Process

Marked for Liam Simpson

117 Edition

The Sydney FC Gazette

23 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Sydney FC run riot against Wellington Phoenix

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

The dugout

Max Caputo says Sydney FC went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Match

Whatever happens, Sydney FC do not lose

8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Boardroom

Shane Harrison signs on for the long haul

Sydney FC moved before anybody else could: a new deal for Shane Harrison, agreed quietly and announced loudly. Boards extend managers for many reasons; the good one is the one this looks like.

Squad

Marcel Tisserand in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sydney FC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

6 academy graduates step up at Sydney FC

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Squad

A row about effort at Sydney FC

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Víctor Campuzano was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The terraces

One of their own: Max Caputo

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Market

Sydney FC promote Owen Sullivan from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Owen Sullivan 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