Mark Sullivan

Central Defender - Melbourne City
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Marked for Mark Sullivan

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The Melbourne City Gazette

3 Sep 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Joshua Laws out for 109 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.

Market

Boualem Amine Masmoudi hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Melbourne City can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Andreas Kuen 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

Nathaniel Atkinson 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.

Squad

Boualem Amine Masmoudi wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Melbourne City know it.

Market

Melbourne City sign Mark Sullivan, one for the future

Mark Sullivan is 19, and Melbourne City 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.

In brief

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128 Edition

The Brisbane Roar Chronicle

8 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Christian Theoharous runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 46. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at Brisbane Roar

Dimitris Valkanis 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.

Squad

Antonee Burke-Gilroy signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Antonee Burke-Gilroy commits to Brisbane Roar for another 3 years.

Squad

Joel King 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Joel Bertolissio

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Joel Bertolissio, and the manager let it.

Match

Brisbane Roar share the spoils with Macarthur FC

A 1‑1 draw with Macarthur FC leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief