Eli Webb

Defensive Midfielder - Sydney FC
9 Dec 2040
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Marked for Eli Webb

737 Edition

The Sydney FC Gazette

10 Sep 2040
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market10 Sep 2040

Western Sydney Wanderers come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Sydney FC did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market10 Sep 2040

Wellington Phoenix watching Akol Akon

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Sydney FC have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad10 Sep 2040

Tempers go at Sydney FC

Chaka Coulibaly 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.

Squad10 Sep 2040

Eli Webb gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Eli Webb has just signed for Sydney FC, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad10 Sep 2040

Rhys Youlley falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad10 Sep 2040

Marcus Kennedy stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Marcus Kennedy and Sydney FC agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief

Back issues
690 Edition

The Melbourne Victory Post

17 Oct 2039
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad17 Oct 2039

A knee injury of the worst kind for Oleksandr Chernenko

84 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Melbourne Victory lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad17 Oct 2039

A move Nickolas Alfaro would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Nickolas Alfaro is living that version at Melbourne Victory, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad17 Oct 2039

Tempers go at Melbourne Victory

Jonty Bidois 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.

In brief

686 Edition

The Melbourne Victory Post

19 Sep 2039
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad19 Sep 2039

A knee injury of the worst kind for Oleksandr Chernenko

116 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Melbourne Victory lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Boardroom19 Sep 2039

Eli Webb signs for Auckland FC while still at Melbourne Victory

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Eli Webb has agreed terms with Auckland FC for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad19 Sep 2039

Tempers go at Melbourne Victory

Keegan Jelacic 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.

Market19 Sep 2039

Only the photograph left for Eli Webb

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Eli Webb will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Melbourne Victory the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad19 Sep 2039

Words at Melbourne Victory training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Amlani Tatu 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.

Squad19 Sep 2039

When it matters, Nishan Velupillay plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief