The Melbourne City Gazette
Market17 Aug 2026
Auckland FC come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Melbourne City did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market17 Aug 2026
Melbourne City sign Ben Warland for $110.0K
The paperwork is done: Ben Warland joins from Brisbane Roar in a deal worth $110.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Melbourne City
Patrick Beach 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Melbourne City make their move for Diesel Herrington
$30.0K on the table at Central Coast Mariners. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
An offer of $25.0K for Andriano Lebib
Melbourne City have gone to Perth Glory 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Melbourne City rebuffed over Layton Stewart
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Birmingham have kept their man, and Melbourne City go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market17 Aug 2026
Sydney FC are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Melbourne City will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Kayne Razmovski signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kayne Razmovski commits to Melbourne City for another 3 years.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Melbourne City
8 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
- Squad Words at Melbourne City training over how hard people work
- Market Melbourne City bring in Hayden Matthews on loan
- The dugout Rhys Scott knocks on the manager’s door