Um, what Indian Premier League side? Haven't heard of his name at all in the I-League, ISL, or IPL.

Google isn't helping me here. Only getting articles about him in the Sunshine Coast when I search his name and IPL.

Surely the Australian journalists would have asked for further details or done some further checks before publishing his claims indubitably?

ISL expansion. If he's talking Gujarat it would be expansion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirav_Tripathi

Can't be ISL. That league is expanding to Bangalore and adding teams in Kolkata. The IPL is a cricket league so weird for that to partner with a football team in Sunshine Coast and the I-League just began two weeks ago with no team from Gujarat and there is no Gujarati team in the 2nd Division.

Excellent, City football arrive and suddenly everyone wants in