Brad Smith

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The Western Sydney Wanderers Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Words at Western Sydney Wanderers training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Angus Thurgate 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.

Transfer targets

Matthew Grimaldi stays at Melbourne Victory as time runs out

A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Western Sydney Wanderers will try again when the window opens; Melbourne Victory may not be selling by then.

The dugout

Alex Gersbach knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Alex Gersbach trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief