Luke Brooke-Smith

Here are the players who played for the Phoenix last season who have left the club.

Josh Olayemi, Tim Paine, Paulo Retre, Carlo Armiento, Efaine Isireme, Nasherin, Mandraka James, Luke Brook Smith, Santa Khartoum, Sarpreet Singh, Gabriel Sloan Rodriguez, Dan Edwards, Luke Supik, and Nikola Milosnic.

I don't even know how many that is, but it's over a full team.

I mean, are you sure you're not just reading out a starting 11 from one of their games?

I don't see how this squad is going to get what they're going with.

Losing Brooke Smith, I think, is a bit of an annoying loss for them, not necessarily devastating.

I think Corbin Piper is going to have a really good year as the starting striker for this team.

In terms of other players that I expect to have big seasons, I honestly don't really think there's going to be too much in terms of standout players for the Phoenix this year.

Franco Ume, we haven't seen anything of him really, have we? But he looked big and quick and dangerous, what little burst we saw of him.

There's the terrible injury to Brooke Smith, which we were talking about yesterday.

Mark Kosnovski, of course, won't be available this year, as far as we know.

And then, as I say, they get themselves round to talking about the young lad Blair, who is looking for a new club, as far as we know.

We have one name to add to the list.

and that is possible but unlikely, Luke Brooke Smith, a newcomer during this period, very young, not selected for the squad, but could be a candidate in the future, Luke Brooke Smith.

I do want to add that we do have Elijah Joost on the list here.

and he does play as a central attacking midfielder so his name will come up in the discussion but we moved him to right attacking midfielder because he appears mostly there and because it kind of fits the narrative better so just Sarpreet Singh uh oh no two players to look at here the first one sarpreet singh uh with new zealand since 2018 he is 26 caps and three goals and is 27 years old currently playing for uh it's called tsc in serbia i'm not really familiar with that club He's been with them since 2025, playing in Serbia, but loaned back to Wellington Phoenix there.

Waddingham got injured against West Ham.

Franco Umar got injured last season he's long term Josh Murphy we haven't seen constantly injured Brooke Smith was a freak accident on the training ground the big Serb So,

he's

back for the derby? Well, I'll tell you what.

So I think he's going to be a very good player.

But for a player of that age to have that sort of injury and now need surgery which you know you're looking at at least three months out i would think probably possibly a bit more that's half half the season gone for him um great shame as we were talking last week it's such a shame for brooke smith lukebrook smith um out for probably most of the season uh with his ankle um angle dislocation and fracture which I don't know we seem to have a succession at the moment of forward players getting injured I'm sure at one time it was defenders every week which defender was going to get injured that week

and now it's the strikers and the wingers

who are getting it I hope we've had our share of bad luck on that front.