Preston Lions midfielder Luca Tevere has revealed he learned of his release from A-League side Perth Glory via an Instagram post.
The 24-year-old earned his first experience in the competition on the back of years of quality performances in NPL Victoria, but now finds himself back there after just nine appearances for the Glory in the back end of the 2025/26 season.
Speaking on the Suited and Booted Podcast, Tevere told the story of his exit from the club.
“Yeah, I feel like I did pretty good. Like I started the first five games that I was there,” he said.
“I was doing well. I was playing a lot of minutes and then the team just wasn’t performing. Things didn’t go my way. I went on the bench and then from there, just kinda went downhill.
“They were still saying like positive things to me. But funny story, I obviously went home, I thought like everything was good, they were gonna re-sign me, they were talking me up, saying, you’re this, you’re that, like once you get a full preseason in this, that, whatever.
“I didn’t hear anything from them for four weeks. I check my Instagram, Luca Tevere services no longer required. That’s how I found out.”
Former A-League player Rashid Mahazi, who co-hosts the Suited & Booted Podcast, labelled it a ‘disgrace’, adding ‘that’s not the first time we’ve heard that’.
In fact, Mahazi himself faced a similar situation following what turned out to be his final season in the competition with Western Sydney Wanderers.
“I was the same at Wanderers, bro. Like no one spoke to me,” he recalled.
“I had to call the coach myself and go, ‘Hey, am I re-signing or what’s the go?’ He’s like, ‘Oh, sorry, man. I forgot to tell you’.”
Tevere explained that he asked the Glory directly if they were going to re-sign him for another season, but did not receive a straight answer.
“I was literally saying to them for like that time before the four weeks we didn’t speak, I said, ‘If you don’t want to re-sign me, just tell me now’,” he said.
“They just kept pushing it back.
“… I just got removed from the group chat. Two days before the post, i got removed from the group chat. Then the media guy messages me and he’s like ‘sad to see you go, you did well, safe travels’
“I said like, is that it?
“The coach contacted me four weeks before and said ‘you’re still on our radar, at the moment you’re 50-50’. From there on, donuts.”
The midfielder also claimed he still has not heard from Glory head coach Adam Griffiths.