The Team Wellington Gazette
Squad17 Jul 2028
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.
Market17 Jul 2028
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 targets17 Jul 2028
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.
Squad17 Jul 2028
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.
Squad17 Jul 2028
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 dugout17 Jul 2028
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
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Llyton Chapman
- Market The Walter Scott story refuses to die
- The terraces The stands have heard the Deklan Stamatelopoulos talk too
- Squad “I want to play”: Llyton Chapman speaks