Jake Brimmer

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

2 Edition

The Auckland FC Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

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.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Auckland FC rebuffed over Angus Thurgate

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Western Sydney Wanderers have kept their man, and Auckland FC go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market10 Aug 2026

Gavin O'Neill steps up from the Auckland FC academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Gavin O'Neill 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

One of our own: Bailey Thomas joins the Auckland FC first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Bailey Thomas is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Matt Smith joins the Auckland FC first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Matt Smith is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market10 Aug 2026

Lachlan Riley steps up from the Auckland FC academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Lachlan Riley 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.

The dugout10 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Jake Brimmer

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jake Brimmer, and the manager let it.

The dugout10 Aug 2026

Nando Pijnaker knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Auckland FC, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

Back issues
1 Edition

The Auckland FC Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

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

Macarthur FC watching Joe Knowles

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

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.

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.

In brief