Ryan Sutton

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Process

Marked for Ryan Sutton

103 Edition

The Team Wellington Gazette

17 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Joel Halliday damages knee ligaments — 32 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 32 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.

Market

Ryan Sutton asks to leave Team Wellington

“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.

Transfer targets

Team Wellington agree $240.0K for Alex Sutton

The clubs have shaken hands with Waitakere United; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Squad

A falling-out at Team Wellington

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

Squad

A row about effort at Team Wellington

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

The dugout

Willem Ebbinge has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Team Wellington will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

Back issues
64 Edition

The Team Wellington Gazette

18 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The dugout

Christian Bracco keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Team Wellington may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Boardroom

A new deal for Liberato Tuiloma

The board have signed the man in the dugout to a longer contract, which says more than any statement of support. Stability is easy to promise and costly to keep.

Squad

A falling-out at Team Wellington

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

Boardroom

5 academy graduates step up at Team Wellington

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

Words at Team Wellington training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Walter Scott 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.

Match

Ben Garbett sends Team Wellington past Waitakere United

It finished 2‑1, and it was Ben Garbett’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Team Wellington.

Market

Sam Waine steps up from the Team Wellington academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sam Waine has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Team Wellington promote James Boxall from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. James Boxall 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

Team Wellington promote Michael Lockyer from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Michael Lockyer 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