The Melbourne City Gazette
Squad3 Sep 2029
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.
Market3 Sep 2029
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.
Squad3 Sep 2029
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.
Squad3 Sep 2029
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.
Squad3 Sep 2029
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.
Market3 Sep 2029
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
- Market Madura United expected to open talks for James Durrington
- Market The Dean Bosnjak story refuses to die
- Boardroom The Melbourne City production line keeps running
- Boardroom The Melbourne City board choose calm