Jake Brimmer

Defensive Midfielder - Auckland FC
13 Sep 2026
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Marked for Jake Brimmer

6 Edition

The Auckland FC Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market7 Sep 2026

Jake Brimmer 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 Auckland FC can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Window shuts: 14 in, 1 out at Auckland FC

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 14 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Squad7 Sep 2026

The step up is real for Jonty Bidois

At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Words at Auckland FC training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Louis Verstraete 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 targets7 Sep 2026

Western Sydney Wanderers tell Auckland FC: Jarrod Carluccio is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A quiet fortnight at Auckland FC

With 7 players away on international duty the sessions are small and the manager can actually hear himself. It is the one break in the season, and it never quite feels like one.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Auckland FC Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Ethan Laidlaw turns down Auckland FC

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Brentford keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad10 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Auckland FC

Hiroki Sakai and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Jake Brimmer signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jake Brimmer commits to Auckland FC for another 4 years.

Market10 Aug 2026

Jack Bennett steps up from the Auckland FC academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jack Bennett has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market10 Aug 2026

Flynn MacDonald steps up from the Auckland FC academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Flynn MacDonald has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market10 Aug 2026

Noah McKay steps up from the Auckland FC academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Noah McKay has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market10 Aug 2026

Auckland FC promote Ben Williams from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ben Williams has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Marc Tokich is a square peg at Auckland FC

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Auckland FC try to borrow Lawrence Wong

Melbourne City have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

In brief

1 Edition

The Auckland FC Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market3 Aug 2026

Macarthur FC come back empty-handed

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

Squad3 Aug 2026

Louis Verstraete signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Louis Verstraete and Auckland FC agree another 4 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Auckland FC

Hiroki Sakai and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Louis Verstraete 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Auckland FC and Hiroki Sakai are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

A loan move for Daniel Arzani is in the works

Auckland FC have made the call to Ferencvaros. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

A loan move for Ethan Laidlaw is in the works

Auckland FC have made the call to Brentford. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Market3 Aug 2026

The clock runs on Logan Rogerson's contract

49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

The dugout3 Aug 2026

Jake Brimmer 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 Jake Brimmer trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief