Month: July 2022

Rookie Macarthur FC coach Dwight Yorke is keen to add Englishman Jack Rodwell to a spate of recent arrivals, as he re-constructs the club’s squad for the new A-League season. A free agent after being released by Western Sydney Wanderers, the former Everton, Manchester City and Sunderland utility has been offered a lifeline by the Bulls. He came to the A-League ahead of last season, joining after his release from Sheffield United. A source close to FTBL revealed that Rodwell is on Yorke’s wish list, though a deal hinges on the 31-year-old tempering his wage expectations.

Rodwell – who made 14 league appearances for Wanderers in his single season with the club – would link up with recruits like Daniel Arzani, Matt Millar, Kearyn Baccus and Anthony Carter at Campbelltown if Yorke gets his man. Yorke has been a long time admirer of Rodwell’s – despite an unfulfilled career in England which saw the nation’s ‘next big thing’ fail to deliver on his promise. After leaving Manchester City for the north-east, he floundered with Black Cats before his UK career finally fizzled out at Sheffield United. Continue reading UPDATED: MACARTHUR HUNT FOR EX-PREMIER LEAGUE MIDFIELDER IN JEOPARDY

Kosta Barbarouses has returned for a third stint with the Wellington Phoenix and has his eyes on his fifth title. Kosta Barbarouses was barely given a chance during his first stint at the Wellington Phoenix from 2008 to 2010. His second ended prematurely, with an early exit agreed in 2017, halfway through a two-year deal. The All Whites forward has now returned for a third, putting pen to paper on a two-year deal that will keep him at the club past his 34th birthday.

A week on from being sent off as the national men’s football team lost their World Cup playoff against Costa Rica in Qatar, Barbarouses was still hurting as he discussed his future at club level. But there was a steady determination about him as he laid clear his plans to move on from that decision, which he disagreed with, and the result, which left “a bitter taste”. With four A-League Men titles under his belt at Brisbane Roar, Melbourne Victory, and Sydney FC, Barbarouses said he was now looking to add a fifth with the Phoenix, his hometown club. Continue reading ALL WHITE KOSTA BARBAROUSES EYES FIFTH A-LEAGUE TITLE