The Melbourne Victory Post
Squad14 Sep 2026
Jack Warshawsky is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Late improvement for Denis Genreau
At 27 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Melbourne Victory rebuffed over Ahmed Abdullahi
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sunderland have kept their man, and Melbourne Victory go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Deadline beats Melbourne Victory to Hosine Bility
The clock did what Brisbane Roar would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Market14 Sep 2026
One of our own: Noah Butler joins the Melbourne Victory first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Noah Butler is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market14 Sep 2026
Melbourne Victory promote Anthony Mitchell from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Anthony Mitchell 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Jack Duncan falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Melbourne Victory
Reagan Ogle 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Melbourne Victory and Samuel Silvera are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
In brief
- The dugout Reagan Ogle knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout The manager comes out for Santos