Bailey Morrison

Goalkeeper - Zhetysu
19 Sep 2029
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Bailey Morrison

161 Edition

The Zhetysu Post

27 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Omar El Hanoudi puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Zhetysu, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Maxim Kuat: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Zhetysu have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Buhle Majavu has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Zhetysu they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

In brief

Back issues
153 Edition

The Zhetysu Post

2 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Buhle Majavu asks to leave Zhetysu

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Match

5 matches without a win for Zhetysu

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Zhetysu are no longer polite ones.

Market

Buhle Majavu is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Zhetysu is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Alan Chochiev stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Alan Chochiev and Zhetysu agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Zhetysu

Guy-Marcelin Kilama 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Zhetysu against Atyrau

2‑3 to Atyrau, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Costly mistake from Danil Podymskii

An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Danil Podymskii knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.

Squad

Ramazan Bağdat is carrying Zhetysu

12 goals and a season average of 7.24. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Player ratings

Ańsar Altynkhan in the eights

A performance of 8.86 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief

65 Edition

The Melbourne Victory Post

25 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Dimitrije Stevanović keeps Melbourne Victory in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Keegan Jelacic

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Melbourne Victory

Denis Genreau 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.

Market

As if he never left: Bailey Morrison returns

Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Bailey Morrison is a Melbourne Victory player again, and the town has its story of the summer.

Market

As if he never left: Kai Walsh returns

Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Kai Walsh is a Melbourne Victory player again, and the town has its story of the summer.

Market

As if he never left: Rhys Hall returns

Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Rhys Hall is a Melbourne Victory player again, and the town has its story of the summer.

Market

Andrew Wilson is a Melbourne Victory 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.

Player ratings

Denis Genreau in the eights

A performance of 9.13 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Match

Melbourne Victory see off Western Sydney Wanderers

Three points for Melbourne Victory, 2‑1 the final word against Western Sydney Wanderers in a contest settled by the finer margins.

In brief