The Melbourne City Gazette
Market22 Oct 2035
Marley Leuluai asks to leave Melbourne City
“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.
The dugout22 Oct 2035
Usisya Longwe says Melbourne City went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Boardroom22 Oct 2035
Melbourne City tie Tyler Holmes down
A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.
Match20 Oct 2035
Melbourne City make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Melbourne City have 3 straight wins of it.
Boardroom22 Oct 2035
5 academy graduates step up at Melbourne City
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Match20 Oct 2035
Melbourne City make home a hard place to visit
9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad22 Oct 2035
A row about effort at Melbourne City
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Finn Surman was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market22 Oct 2035
Melbourne City promote Travis Harrison from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Travis Harrison 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.
Market22 Oct 2035
Patrick Simpson steps up from the Melbourne City academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Patrick Simpson has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Owen Collins joins the Melbourne City first team
- Match Melbourne City get the job done against Newcastle Jets
- Squad Words exchanged at Melbourne City