The Sydney FC Gazette
Market19 Feb 2029
Jordan Courtney-Perkins 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 Sydney FC can pretend not to have heard.
Match19 Feb 2029
Sydney FC are top
30 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.
The dugout19 Feb 2029
Paulo Retre 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.
Match17 Feb 2029
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.
Market19 Feb 2029
Sydney FC say no — this time
The offer from Shonan Bellmare for Gabriel Popovic was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad19 Feb 2029
Tempers go at Sydney FC
Takahiro Sekine 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.
Squad19 Feb 2029
Rhys Youlley stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Rhys Youlley and Sydney FC agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad19 Feb 2029
Words at Sydney FC training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Apostolos Stamatelopoulos 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.
Market19 Feb 2029
One of our own: Brett Carter joins the Sydney FC first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Brett Carter is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Sydney FC promote Grant Davis from within
- Looking ahead Sydney FC and Adelaide United meet at the summit
- Squad Home is on Kotaro Honda's mind