The Melbourne Victory Post
Match24 Oct 2026
Charles Nduka leads the rout of Western Sydney Wanderers
4‑1, and Charles Nduka took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Melbourne Victory tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A day Charles Nduka will not forget
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Boardroom26 Oct 2026
1 academy players handed senior numbers at Melbourne Victory
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Charles Nduka in the eights
A performance of 9.54 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Melbourne Victory
Ben Warland was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Market26 Oct 2026
Declan Carter steps up from the Melbourne Victory academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Declan Carter has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Match24 Oct 2026
Charles Nduka at the heart of a fast Melbourne Victory start
2 goals inside twenty minutes with Charles Nduka in the middle of it, and Western Sydney Wanderers unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes of Nishan Velupillay at his very best
Marked 8.27. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Melbourne Victory.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Jordi Valadon falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
In brief
- Player ratings Denis Genreau in the eights
- Squad 100 appearances for Jordi Valadon
- The dugout The view from the dugout