Travis Bailey

Striker - Melbourne City U18
27 Sep 2028
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Travis Bailey

98 Edition

The Melbourne City Gazette

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Travis Bailey damages knee ligaments — 19 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 19 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

A fracture rules Oscar Page out for 37 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Melbourne City will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Max Caputo signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Max Caputo commits to Melbourne City for another 4 years.

Market

Melbourne City sign Andriano Lebib for $300.0K

The paperwork is done: Andriano Lebib joins from Perth Glory in a deal worth $300.0K. Now comes the harder part.

Squad

Tempers go at Melbourne City

Luke Brattan 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

Business is business: Ryan Kalms goes

Melbourne Victory paid $400.0K and Melbourne City took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

In brief

Back issues
97 Edition

The Melbourne City Gazette

5 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Travis Bailey

27 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.

Squad

Luke Brattan 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.

Squad

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.

In brief