The Melbourne City Gazette
Squad13 Sep 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Takeshi Kanamori
70 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Melbourne City lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market13 Sep 2027
Perth Glory come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Melbourne City did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets13 Sep 2027
Deadline beats Melbourne City to Samuel Tetteh
The clock did what Ashanti Gold would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Squad13 Sep 2027
A falling-out at Melbourne City
Sheriff Sinyan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market13 Sep 2027
One of our own: Peter Gordon joins the Melbourne City first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Peter Gordon is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market13 Sep 2027
Blake Walker steps up from the Melbourne City academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Blake Walker 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.
Market13 Sep 2027
Melbourne City promote Anthony Powell from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Anthony Powell has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad13 Sep 2027
A row about effort at Melbourne City
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ryan Kalms was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout13 Sep 2027
The manager makes an example of James Nieuwenhuizen
“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.
In brief
- The dugout Jake Najdovski asks for a word with the manager
- Squad “I want to play”: Kavian Rahmani speaks
- The dugout A door opens for Ryan Kalms