The Melbourne Victory Post
Market10 Sep 2035
Medin Memeti has said yes to Auckland FC
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Melbourne Victory have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market10 Sep 2035
Liam Coyne’s move to Wellington Phoenix falls through
The deal that would have taken Liam Coyne to Wellington Phoenix has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Melbourne Victory with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Market10 Sep 2035
One of our own: Bradley King joins the Melbourne Victory first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Bradley King is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Sep 2035
Melbourne Victory promote Marcus Johnson from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Marcus Johnson 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.
Squad10 Sep 2035
Tempers go at Melbourne Victory
Dennis Konney 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.
Squad10 Sep 2035
Words at Melbourne Victory training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Noah Botic is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout10 Sep 2035
Olamilekan Adams has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Melbourne Victory will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout10 Sep 2035
The manager makes an example of Andrew Murray
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad10 Sep 2035
Hayden Matthews has seen what the next man earns
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Melbourne Victory that is a harder question to answer.
In brief
- The dugout Dean Taylor knocks on the manager’s door
- Squad Patrick Edwards: “I am not a substitute”
- The dugout The manager makes Liam Coyne a promise