The Melbourne Victory Post
Squad25 Jun 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for Austin Ludwik
23 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Melbourne Victory lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Transfer targets25 Jun 2029
Melbourne Victory agree $100.0K for Aaron O'Brien
The clubs have shaken hands with Melbourne City; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Market25 Jun 2029
Tomislav Uskok asks to leave Melbourne Victory
“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.
Transfer targets25 Jun 2029
An offer of $1.6M for Ryan White
Melbourne Victory have gone to Adelaide United with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad25 Jun 2029
A falling-out at Melbourne Victory
Denis Genreau and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad25 Jun 2029
Louis D'Arrigo 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.
Market25 Jun 2029
Melbourne Victory sign Mark McGrath, one for the future
Mark McGrath is 18, and Melbourne Victory have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Squad25 Jun 2029
Melbourne Victory are still strangers to each other
5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout25 Jun 2029
Jack Duncan has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Melbourne Victory will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
In brief
- The dugout Oliver Evans gets it from the manager
- The dugout A promise honoured for Mark McGrath
- The dugout Vinko Stanisic knocks on the manager's door