{"id":27806,"date":"2026-06-09T10:31:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/27806\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T10:31:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:31:32","slug":"perth-glory-confirm-departures-of-eight-first-team-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/27806\/","title":{"rendered":"Perth Glory confirm departures of EIGHT first team players"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perth Glory have confirmed eight first team players have left the club as they continue to reshape their squad ahead of the 2026-27 Isuzu UTE A-League season.<\/p>\n

Joel Anasmo, Mark Birighitti, Cameron Cook, Zach Lisolajski, Kaelan Majekodunmi, Nicholas Pennington, Luca Tevere and Lachie Wales have all departed the club following the end of the 2025-26 Isuzu UTE A-League campaign.<\/p>\n

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Birighitti did not feature for Glory in the competition last season, while fellow-goalkeeper Cook made 40 appearances during a five-year spell with the club.<\/p>\n

Winger Anasmo and defender Lisolajski both debuted in 2024 and went on to play 23 and 19 times respectively and midfielder Tevere featured in nine games having signed on a short-term deal midway through last season.<\/p>\n

Pennington spent two seasons in purple, racking up 44 A-Leagues appearances in midfield and after debuting in January 2025, attacker Wales represented the club on a further 12 occasions.<\/p>\n

\"\"Lachlan Wales (L) of the Glory <\/p>\n

\"\"Nicholas Pennington of the Glory<\/p>\n

CLICK HERE TO HEAD TO THE ISUZU UTE A-LEAGUE TRANSFER CENTRE<\/a><\/p>\n

Finally, defender Majekodunmi pulled on the Perth Glory shirt 15 times during his three years with the club.<\/p>\n

Whilst they may be shedding eight players the Glory have certainly been busy so far this off-season when it comes to incomings and re-signings.<\/p>\n

Last week Adam Griffiths\u2019 side made the move to sign former Brisbane Roar defender Matthew Dench on a two-year deal whilst also re-signing a large number of their current side.<\/p>\n

Glory captain Adam Taggart will be staying put having put pen-to-paper on a new one-year contract extension<\/a> whilst star import\u00a0Tom Lawrence has also inked a new two-year contract to remain in Western Australia.<\/a><\/p>\n

Furthermore, young talents\u00a0Giovanni De Abreu\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0Sebastian Despotovski<\/a>\u00a0have both signed new contracts with the club whilst Stefan Colacovski has re-signed for a further season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Perth Glory have confirmed eight first team players have left the club as they continue to reshape their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1264,1417,1418,152,335,6423],"class_list":["post-27806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-perth","tag-a-league-men","tag-a-leagues","tag-almfeatured","tag-news","tag-perth","tag-transfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}