The Melbourne City Gazette
Market23 Oct 2034
Only the photograph left for Abdoulie Tamba
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Abdoulie Tamba will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Melbourne City the goodbyes have quietly begun.
The dugout23 Oct 2034
Okuhle Majavu keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Melbourne City may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings23 Oct 2034
Up for the corner, and Ethan Alagich delivers — 7.95
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Ethan Alagich scored, was marked 7.95, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Boardroom23 Oct 2034
Graduation day at Melbourne City
8 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Match21 Oct 2034
Still nobody has beaten Melbourne City
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad23 Oct 2034
Joe Bell 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.
Squad23 Oct 2034
A row about effort at Melbourne City
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ussumane Djabi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout23 Oct 2034
Ussumane Djabi back under a manager who knows him
The new man at Melbourne City has worked with Ussumane Djabi before and it went well. He arrives with a view of the player already formed, which is worth more than any pre-season.
Market23 Oct 2034
Melbourne City promote Harrison Murray from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Harrison Murray 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.
In brief
- Market Will Doyle steps up from the Melbourne City academy
- Market Patrick Taylor steps up from the Melbourne City academy
- Match Ethan Alagich the difference as Melbourne City beat Newcastle Jets