From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Adelaide United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jake Najdovski and Adelaide United agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Ethan Alagich
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Craig Goodwin 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Bart Vriends 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 Bart Vriends trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market21 Sep 2026
The Ajak Riak story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Ajak Riak signs something — a contract at Adelaide United or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Steady
Market14 Sep 2026
The offer from Perth Glory for Jake Najdovski was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market14 Sep 2026
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Joey Garuccio reports back to Adelaide United with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad14 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Adelaide United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Adelaide United, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Ajak Riak 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Wages eat 148% of everything Adelaide United earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Adelaide United will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer from Melbourne City for Juan Muñiz was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market31 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Adelaide United, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Adelaide United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market31 Aug 2026
Melbourne City paid $200.0K and Adelaide United took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Market31 Aug 2026
A conversation is coming this week. Adelaide United will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A new face in his position, and Craig Goodwin suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Adelaide United have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
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Steady
Market24 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Adelaide United, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market24 Aug 2026
The offer from Wellington Phoenix for Vinko Stanisic was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Craig Goodwin 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer from Wellington Phoenix for Craig Goodwin was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad17 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Adelaide United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market17 Aug 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Luka Jovanović’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Craig Goodwin and Adelaide United agree another 1 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Adelaide United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
14 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Dylan Pierias’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Market10 Aug 2026
“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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer from Melbourne City for Luka Jovanović was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad3 Aug 2026
236 appearances across 11 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Adelaide United know what they have.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Anselmo and Adelaide United agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Craig Goodwin 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Adelaide United, another week without a signature from Luka Jovanović.
Market3 Aug 2026
24 months and counting on Joshua Smits
Still no offer on the table, and Joshua Smits’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.