The Perth Glory Sentinel
Squad6 Aug 2040
Cameron Cook damages knee ligaments — 78 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 78 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.
Squad6 Aug 2040
Scott Ferguson breaks a bone — 38 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 38 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market6 Aug 2040
Western Sydney Wanderers come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Perth Glory did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad6 Aug 2040
Luke Brooke-Smith signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Luke Brooke-Smith and Perth Glory agree another 2 years.
Squad6 Aug 2040
Tempers go at Perth Glory
Arion Sulemani 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.
Boardroom6 Aug 2040
$1.7M on the table at Perth Glory
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
In brief
- Market No place for Blake Beath in the plan
- Boardroom $312.9K a year onto the Perth Glory books
- Market The Jesse Sullivan story refuses to die
- Market Caleb Walker leaves for nothing