The Melbourne City Gazette
Match23 Oct 2027
6 matches without a win for Melbourne City
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Melbourne City are no longer polite ones.
Market25 Oct 2027
Blake White is a Melbourne City player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market25 Oct 2027
Jesse Palmer is a Melbourne City player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market25 Oct 2027
Harrison Baker comes home
The shirt still fits. Harrison Baker is back at Melbourne City, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market25 Oct 2027
Kane Spencer comes home
The shirt still fits. Kane Spencer is back at Melbourne City, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad25 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Mathew Leckie
“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.
Loan watch25 Oct 2027
Will Henderson has seen enough of Wellington Phoenix
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Melbourne City, and 0 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.
Match23 Oct 2027
Honours even between Melbourne City and Newcastle Jets
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Stanislav Biblyk finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Melbourne City have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
In brief
- Squad Max Caputo asks for a word with the manager
- Squad A first senior shirt for Mathew Baker
- Boardroom Melbourne City keep producing them