The Melbourne City Gazette
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Nobody could get near Awer Mabil
Successful dribbles: 56. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Mathew Leckie honoured for the season
The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Melbourne City had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Melbourne City
Matheus Rossetto and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match2 Jan 2027
Melbourne City come up short against Sydney FC
Sydney FC left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Appearance number 100 for Marcus Younis
100 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Melbourne City count the cost of losing Nicholas Mitchell
33 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Match4 Jan 2027
Halfway: Melbourne City sit in position 1
19 points at the turn. The first half of a season is a promise; the second is a bill, and the town is about to find out which of the two this one was.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Thomas Parker to a room that had heard them before.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Melbourne City try to borrow Dane Scarlett
Leyton Orient have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
In brief
- Transfer targets A loan move for Benoný Breki Andrésson is in the works
- The dugout No hiding place for Liam Bonetig
- Looking ahead Andrew Nabbout faces his old club