Melbourne City

[THEWANDERERSPOST]

56 minutes ago, MartinTyler said:

We have a new coach though !!

True, fair enough. Robbo did help produce Alphonso Davies so maybe he can help wilmering become the next best Australian leftback!

[MathyouWSW]

So...

You've got Good and Delbridge fighting for 1st choice Centre Back alongside Richard Windjammer
You've got Jamieson, Galloway and Garluccio fighting for 1st choice left back.
You've got Atkinson and Galloway fighting for 1st choice right back.
You've got O'Neill and Griiffths fighting for 1st choice CDM's 

Unless Kisnorbo decides to have them on rotation, I feel one of these players mentioned above will get the s*its cause they ain't getting enough game time and decide to leave mid-season.

Edited October 17, 2020 by MathyouWSW

[Paul01]

8 hours ago, MathyouWSW said:

So...

You've got Good and Delbridge fighting for 1st choice Centre Back alongside Richard Windjammer
You've got Jamieson, Galloway and Garluccio fighting for 1st choice left back.
You've got Atkinson and Galloway fighting for 1st choice right back.
You've got O'Neill and Griiffths fighting for 1st choice CDM's 

Unless Kisnorbo decides to have them on rotation, I feel one of these players mentioned above will get the s*its cause they ain't getting enough game time and decide to leave mid-season.

Delbridge (red card king) is supposed to be a free agent

[MathyouWSW]

10 hours ago, Paul01 said:

Delbridge (red card king) is supposed to be a free agent

He is still with them.

Infact, He signed a three year contract with City back in 2018.
 

[MathyouWSW]

City have signed 20 year old Japanese winger Naoki Tsubaki on loan from Ange's Yokohama Marinos. 

 

[StringerBellend]

Never played J League was on loan at a J3 team

 

[MartinTyler]

Japanese attacker....sounds Kamikaze like

[MathyouWSW]

Just realised the link I made on his name goes back to this page, apologies. As Stringer said, he has spent majority of his career on loan with Giravanz Kitakyushu which is a J2-J3 league club. 

https://www.transfermarkt.com/naoki-tsubaki/profil/spieler/491198

 

[MathyouWSW]

Richard Windbichler has departed Melbourne City.

[MathyouWSW]

City could be losing Harrison Delbridge: 

Could be heading back to MLS as he has received offers from there and received offers from clubs in K-League, China and south Asian clubs

 

[Carns]

City teaming up with the Team 11 bid in an effort to get more fans.

https://amp.theage.com.au/sport/soccer/shock-move-melbourne-city-to-relocate-in-bid-for-more-fans-20201214-p56nda.html?__twitter_impression=true

[WHACKO]

40 minutes ago, Carns said:

City teaming up with the Team 11 bid in an effort to get more fans.

https://amp.theage.com.au/sport/soccer/shock-move-melbourne-city-to-relocate-in-bid-for-more-fans-20201214-p56nda.html?__twitter_impression=true

The Age must be like the Telegraph here . Refers to the W -League women's Melbourne City team at one point and has a picture of Sydney FC women's team.

[Sithslayer1991]

52 minutes ago, WHACKO said:

The Age must be like the Telegraph here . Refers to the W -League women's Melbourne City team at one point and has a picture of Sydney FC women's team.

The Journalist laziness and incompetence aside its positive for City to team up with team 11.

[Paul01]

12 hours ago, Carns said:

City teaming up with the Team 11 bid in an effort to get more fans.

https://amp.theage.com.au/sport/soccer/shock-move-melbourne-city-to-relocate-in-bid-for-more-fans-20201214-p56nda.html?__twitter_impression=true

More that CFG want to kill off Team 11 as the potential 4th Melbourne team.

Plus CFG couldn't have those upstarts from Western Sydney with better facilities than their illegally financed football club in Melbourne.

[Carns]

Team 11 approached City. Seems a smart move for all involved, IMO.

[Sithslayer1991]

14 hours ago, Paul01 said:

More that CFG want to kill off Team 11 as the potential 4th Melbourne team.

Plus CFG couldn't have those upstarts from Western Sydney with better facilities than their illegally financed football club in Melbourne.

As Carns just said the reports are that team 11 actually approached them 6 months after their bid failed so the move was on the cards for some time.

[Paul01]

34 minutes ago, Sithslayer1991 said:

As Carns just said the reports are that team 11 actually approached them 6 months after their bid failed so the move was on the cards for some time.

CFG still dont like upstarts from Western Sydney with better facilities than them.

[Carns]

It would be amazing if every club decided they wanted to have the best facilities in the country and tried to one up each other with their training/academy bases. It would only benefit football in this country.

Yes, City (and WSW) have an ulterior motive in wanting to on sell players, but that is how academies work all over the world. It's not done out of the kindness of their heart, it's a business decision.

[Davo]

Yeah unless the A-League wants to go toe to toe with the Premier League, La Liga, etc. then the whole business model needs to be about developing players to sell overseas for decent transfer fees.

I've always thought our club should have something like the Ajax model. They know they aren't going to regularly compete with Europe's best but they have a top academy, a defined identity and playing style and a bunch of club legends coaching or working at the top of the club. They regularly win their league, occasionally have a big run in the Champions League and make good money when their players are ready to move on.

I'd be happy with that.

[MathyouWSW]

Melbourne City had a trial match against Bentleigh Greens. They won 1-0 which I'm a bit surprised about (Goal was scored by Craig Noone in the 11th minute). I thought they would put at least 2-3 goals passed them. 

City's line up listed below:
1. Tom GLOVER (GK), 3. Scott JAMIESON, 7. Rostyn GRIFFITHS, 8.Aiden O'NEILL, 9.Jamie MACLAREN, 11.Craig NOONE,15.Andrew NABBOUT, 18. Connor METCALFE, 19.Ben GARUCCIO, 20.Adrian LUNA, 22. Curtis GOOD

Subs: 33. Matthew SUTTON, 45. Max CAPUTO, 46. Harry POLITIDIS, 48. Emin DURAKOVIC, 49. Dom FOLINO

One player to keep an eye on is Harry Politdis. He came on in the second half and fired two great shots towards the Bentleigh Greens keeper. Also, Bentleigh were very unlucky not to get the equaliser near the 88' minute. They had two opportunties but Glover managed to stop them. 

Melbourne City remain undefeated in their pre-season with draws against Victory (3-3) Jets (3-3) and 2 wins against Western United (2-1 and 3-2) plus tonight's win against Bentleigh Greens.

[papersun]

City about to sign a Portuguese  central defender with a decent pedigree,  already in quarantine according to the World game.

Could be Nuno Reis.

[MathyouWSW]

On 05/01/2021 at 3:49 PM, papersun said:

City about to sign a Portuguese  central defender with a decent pedigree,  already in quarantine according to the World game.

Could be Nuno Reis.

You're right. Should be announced in the upcoming days: https://www.theage.com.au/sport/soccer/city-swoop-on-portuguese-defender-but-maclaren-focused-on-attack-20210114-p56tyn.html

 

[Davo]

 

 

Edited May 3, 2021 by mack
city reposted

[Sithslayer1991]

They are still going to destroy everyone.

[pseudonym]

[MartinTyler]

I see they've had a big campaign to get bums on seats for tonights game.....be interesting to see how many turn up....you'd want in excess of 12k

[Carns]

Very interesting article on how City went about changing their culture, style and mindset to become competitive. A few lessons WSW could learn, starting with having an Director of Football.

[WHACKO]

City sign Leckie.

[Davo]

Three year deal. The team that could finish 19 points ahead of us have already signed one of the best non-visa players available.

[StringerBellend]

28 minutes ago, Davo said:

Three year deal. The team that could finish 19 points ahead of us have already signed one of the best non-visa players available.

ambition