The Melbourne City Gazette
Squad26 Oct 2026
Joshua Risdon breaks a bone — 49 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 49 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Bakary Nimaga in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Melbourne City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Mathew Leckie runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom26 Oct 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Melbourne City
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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Joshua Risdon has improved at 34, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Melbourne City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nathaniel Atkinson is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market26 Oct 2026
One of our own: Peter O'Brien joins the Melbourne City first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Peter O'Brien is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market26 Oct 2026
Melbourne City promote Luke Gibson from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Luke Gibson 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.
Market26 Oct 2026
One of our own: Blake Riley joins the Melbourne City first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Blake Riley is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Aaron Harris joins the Melbourne City first team
- Loan watch Alessandro Lopane has seen enough of Adelaide United
- Match Melbourne City and Newcastle Jets take a point apiece