The Western Sydney Wanderers Chronicle
Squad5 Sep 2050
Dale Gray damages knee ligaments — 18 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 18 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.
Squad5 Sep 2050
Stefan Thomas signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Stefan Thomas and Western Sydney Wanderers agree another 2 years.
Market5 Sep 2050
Sydney FC are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Western Sydney Wanderers will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Market5 Sep 2050
Eyes on Kevin Quintero again
The phone has started ringing about Kevin Quintero again, and this time the name on the line is Melbourne Victory. Western Sydney Wanderers are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad5 Sep 2050
When it matters, Brandon Wright 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.
Squad5 Sep 2050
Noah Cummings 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.
In brief
- Market Peter Wallace placed on the list
- Market The market said no: Peter Phillips stays put