Sam Cosgrove

Striker - Retired
22 Oct 2035
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445 Edition

The SC Freiburg Chronicle

5 Feb 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match3 Feb 2035

Nobody wins at SC Freiburg

22 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Squad5 Feb 2035

Klaus Schreiber breaks a bone — 50 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 50 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad5 Feb 2035

Rihito Yamamoto: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” SC Freiburg have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market5 Feb 2035

Tomás Araújo wants more than SC Freiburg are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Market5 Feb 2035

Sam Cosgrove asks to leave SC Freiburg

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad5 Feb 2035

Leroy Sané in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at SC Freiburg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad5 Feb 2035

Words at SC Freiburg training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Diego Moreira 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.

Match3 Feb 2035

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about SC Freiburg and TSG Hoffenheim in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Match3 Feb 2035

SC Freiburg get the job done against TSG Hoffenheim

A 4‑2 win over TSG Hoffenheim, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

In brief

Back issues
421 Edition

The SC Freiburg Chronicle

21 Aug 2034
From our football correspondent Steady

Market21 Aug 2034

Cedric Teuchert 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 SC Freiburg can pretend not to have heard.

Squad21 Aug 2034

Tomás Araújo in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at SC Freiburg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad21 Aug 2034

Diego Moreira 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.

Market21 Aug 2034

Oliver Pohl is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at SC Freiburg is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad21 Aug 2034

The manager has not finished forgetting Tomáš Suslov's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Squad21 Aug 2034

Lorenz Assignon gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

391 Edition

The Auckland FC Sentinel

23 Jan 2034
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings23 Jan 2034

Nando Pijnaker, 34, rolls back the years — 9.30

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 9.30 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market23 Jan 2034

Sam Cosgrove is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Auckland FC is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad23 Jan 2034

Lachlan Rose says Auckland FC went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad23 Jan 2034

Tempers go at Auckland FC

Lachlan Brook 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.

Squad23 Jan 2034

Words at Auckland FC training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jake Brimmer 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.

Match21 Jan 2034

Auckland FC get the job done against Wellington Phoenix

A 2‑0 win over Wellington Phoenix, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings23 Jan 2034

Ninety minutes of Jesse Randall at his very best

Marked 8.23. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Auckland FC.

Squad23 Jan 2034

Sam Cosgrove gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings23 Jan 2034

Nobody could get near Lachlan Brook

Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

389 Edition

The Auckland FC Sentinel

9 Jan 2034
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match7 Jan 2034

Chastening afternoon for Auckland FC

A 0‑3 beating by Perth Glory was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Match9 Jan 2034

Auckland FC sink to position 10

11 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Squad9 Jan 2034

Birahim Diousse keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Auckland FC may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad9 Jan 2034

A move Tim Lloyd 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. Tim Lloyd is living that version at Auckland FC, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad9 Jan 2034

Francis De Vries stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Francis De Vries and Auckland FC agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad9 Jan 2034

Tempers go at Auckland FC

Lachlan Brook 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.

Market9 Jan 2034

As if he never left: Tim Lloyd returns

Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Tim Lloyd is a Auckland FC player again, and the town has its story of the summer.

Market9 Jan 2034

Sydney FC are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Auckland FC will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Boardroom9 Jan 2034

Nobody left the Auckland FC dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

In brief

387 Edition

The Auckland FC Sentinel

26 Dec 2033
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match24 Dec 2033

Auckland FC run riot against Sydney FC

4‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Squad26 Dec 2033

A fracture rules Lachlan Rose out for 25 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Auckland FC will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad26 Dec 2033

Oliver Sail keeps Auckland FC in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings26 Dec 2033

Both of them Jesse Randall's — 8.84

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.84, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad26 Dec 2033

Lachlan Bayliss: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Auckland FC have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings26 Dec 2033

Nando Pijnaker, 34, rolls back the years — 8.46

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.46 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market26 Dec 2033

Panashe Madanha has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Auckland FC they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad26 Dec 2033

Tempers go at Auckland FC

Lachlan Brook 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.

Player ratings26 Dec 2033

One of those days for Lachlan Brook

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.72, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief

382 Edition

The Auckland FC Sentinel

21 Nov 2033
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad21 Nov 2033

Daniel Hall breaks a bone — 38 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 38 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad21 Nov 2033

Lachlan Brook in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Auckland FC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad21 Nov 2033

Jake Brimmer 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.

Match19 Nov 2033

A bad afternoon for Auckland FC against Melbourne Victory

1‑3 to Melbourne Victory, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad21 Nov 2033

No hiding place for Francis De Vries

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

Player ratings21 Nov 2033

Jefter Arrey runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief