Either the Vuck socials admin has left lunch late and is hangry for paella, or we're announcing a Spaniard at 2pm.

He started way after Heart.

https://www.melbournevictory.com.au/news/melbourne-victory-signs-rai-marchan

Melbourne Victory signs Rai Marchan

Melbourne Victory is pleased to announce the signing of Spanish player Rai Marchan for the 2021/22 A-League season.

The 27-year-old was a product of Real Madrid’s youth system before moving to Valencia B in 2015.

The central midfielder, who has also represented Real Valladolid and Celta Vigo, has spent the last two seasons with FC Andorra.

Victory A-League Head Coach, Tony Popovic, said Marchan will provide unique qualities in the middle of the park.

“Rai is a very gifted player who will provide us with real quality out of the midfield,” Popovic said.

“He is still at a great age, a top professional in all respects and the sort of player who can make a special contribution.”

Marchan will link up with Popovic’s squad after the completion of his quarantine period.

“I am looking forward to playing in Australia and at Melbourne Victory,” Marchan said.

“I am clear on Tony’s direction for Melbourne Victory and I am excited to be able to play a role in that.

“I also understand the passion of our fans at the Club is outstanding and I cannot wait to play in front of them and create some excitement.”

Played his whole career in the Spanish third tier. Doesn't even have a Spanish language wiki page. If we're not re-signing Brimmer due to this guy I'll be livid.

I'll reserve judgment until I see him play, but on the surface it definitely seems like you could find a similar or better player locally.

Thought brimmer was on a 2 year contract? What's the deal is he going? I assume he and poppa aren't enamoured with each other from Perth. 

FC Andorra :D

Seems to have been worded as a one year contract: https://www.melbournevictory.com.au/news/melbourne-victory-signs-jake-brimmer

Do u know if he's been training with us?

Brimmers been training with us. He's been spotted in some videos .

No to be overly negative but he could have been allowed to train with the squad while finding a new offer.

He is listed on the official site's first team squad list, but those lists are notoriously slow to update, none of our new signings for this season have been added yet.

Ivan Kelava is official. 

So macron is our new match wear supplier. Hoping they don't fuck it up

I wasn’t too happy about it, but the video on the MV socials has actually got me a bit keen. They do kits for some big clubs 

They do. But their replica kits are hit and miss.

Well that’s not good news

Mate bought their leeds kits when they supplied them when he was in England.  Their large/xl are small and ill fitting . But their player wear is a better cut.  I'm hoping we don't get team wear but get a custom kit like we did with Adidas when we first signed with them 

Also Clayton who last played for atletico paranese  followed mv recently.  Was at shaktar donestk

I mean at dynamo kyiv

Kayke Rodrigues's missus just followed Victory on insta.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayke_Rodrigues

https://au.soccerway.com/players/kayke-moreno-de-andrade-rodrigues/75894/

https://www.transfermarkt.com/kayke/profil/spieler/55378

He has had a lot of clubs, hasn't played many games or scored many goals.

I'd never seen this photo before from the penalty shootout in our first ever senior competitive game in this article about Spiranovic's return.



Left to right: Spira, Daniel Visevic, Allsopp, Ricky Diaco and Brox.

Match report here: https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20050712075423/http://www.a-league.com.au/public/article/show.asp?articleid=8904

Did traore end up copping a suspension? 

Interesting exchange between Giannou and Ikon on the latter's latest insta post.

well there were reports that Giannou's club wanted him to find a new club this off season

Interesting 

Would love to see how Giannou goes in the A-League. Do you guys have a central striker currently? Or been linked with anyone else? 

They have D’Aggers and Folmai but I can’t realistically see them starting regularly.

Looks more like mucking around imo. I was expecting it to be an in depth discussion about existential crisis and the consequences of unregulated capitalism within football industry

Just followed Victory on insta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan-Arie_van_der_Heijden