You got ripped off!

umm we're not the ones paying for kevin muscat

enough of your shit troll.

Said by the team who has John van 't Schip as coach. :lol:

in my opinion city should make a play for pim verbeek

our current first 11?

-----------------------------Sorensen
Franjic -----------Malik-------------Chapman---------Clisby
----------------Caceres------------------Brattan
------------------------------Cahill
Kamau/Fitzg--------Fornaroli----------------Novillo



Im pretty keen to see who the other secret marquee is that they have lined up. also the future head coach that was rumoured to be assisting this year.

If they bring in a gun marquee midfielder and a solid CB we are looking quite good. still a lot of folk on the melbourne football forum reckon the marquee is going to be Terry... Would make sense.

Surely Cahill won't play in midfield? He's way past that stage. With Novillo probably going I could see a 4-4-2 with Cahill and Fornaroli up front and Bruce and Fitzgerald out wide maybe?

Rumors City have Novillo's replacement Fernando Brandan

someones already updated his wikipedia page :lol:

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/football/a-league/teams/melbourne-city/melbourne-city-poised-to-sign-argentinian-midfielder-fernando-brandan-on-oneyear-deal/news-story/4d534e090bb457a5959ccc753a30e4d6

those line ups seem bizzare. muscat will not start. clisby is a better option - there will be a left back and cb bought in before pre season.

and brandon will be on the wing.


-------------brattan------------caceres
------------------------cahill
brandan------------fornaroli-------------kamau/fitz

yes I know, I was going on purely what we have at our disposal at the moment, yeah it is bizarre because we don't have any depth and actual quality hence the weird positioning. However, I don't think Cahill if he does come will play AM I think we may see another signing come through as I think he will tell JVS where he wants to play (upfront), and I guess he will have to abide by him hahah.

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pretty comfortable win tonight 5-0 against port melbourne (might have been a couple more i missed a little bit).. the return of luke brattan! (aka chubby jesus. aka short fat irvine..)

the line up... a fairly standard 4.3.3.

-----------------------------------------------sorensen
muscat-----------------chapman-----------------------------ozzie---------------clisby
---------------------------------------------Brattan
---------------------caceres----------------------------------retre
arzani?---------------------------------bruno-------------------------------fitz

not 100% if it was arzani. he was wearing 19.

muscat and clisby looked good.

chapman and malik look very mobile. it's a really quick central pairing. they are both skyscrapers as well.

brattan bossed midfield. calling the team around and keeping the backline in order. he was a bit rusty but his passing starting to look pretty deadly by the end of the first half. i gotta feeling that mooys passing has been replaced.

retre caceres and fitz were active - pressing hard.

fornaroli picked up a brace. a free kick just of the D and a penalty.

arzani wasnt too involved.

SECOND HALF

Kilkenny was a straight swap for brattan at half time. looked good, gave the ref heaps of shit, copped shit right back. like "righto mate, fucking settle down".

kamau came on the left wing and about 6 other school kids came on who i didnt know. but dominated and picked up 3 goals from open play including a midfielder (who might have been arzani if the other guy wasnt him)


Edited by inala brah: 21/7/2016 12:27:26 AM

#19 on the right wing was Luke Gallo, not Arzani.
Kamau didn't play either, that was Yusuf Ahmed that came on to the left wing, Arzani came on in the 2nd half playing up top replacing Bruno & I think the final goal was scored by Austin Wong from the youth team

did he came over from bentleigh greens?

i was struggling to make out the faces on the other side of the pitch.

i read as well the other goal was melling and the 3rd goal was a deflection of a retre strike. it was hard to see the details from where i was.

what do you think of the formation/lineup?

i really dont think the team needs cahill. although the club could use him for tickets and memberships. and the league could as well.

Edited by inala brah: 21/7/2016 11:56:07 AM

i really dont think the team needs cahill. although the club could use him for tickets and memberships. and the league could as well.

Wonder how many minutes he'll actually be contracted to play.

Can't see him having much time to train

If he treats it with respect his time here (should he come) the fans will come and support regardless of his time frame on the pitch.

If it is a pisstake I am here for a paycheck only and I don't care about city then the fans will run quicker than they did when Villa was here.

Welcome to Melbourne Fernando

fornroli had a great game. 3 goals from open play including a bicycle kick. he sunk back a bit at times. i would like to think he was a false nine.

2 assists were from kamau - kamau might just end up being the signing of the season. he was slick.

muscat should not be in the first team. slow and lazy tonight. pretty much played as a right midfielder - would not track back and left ozzie. chapman and clisby working as more of a 3 and opening up the other side. he was a bit better for 20 minutes after half time - clearly had some instructions but got lazy again and was pulled off.

caceres was sharp when he came on.

bouzanis was saved from a howler by an offside flag.

brattan and kilkenny will make a good pairing when they both get match fit. brattans passing was pretty good for the most part.

clisby looks like he will hold down left back. he would be a decent left back with some good defensive tutelage. not under jvs.

I didn't go but heard great things about Kamau - would seem he does the things Novillo couldn't do. Go both ways defend and attack.

Muscat also received a lot of praise from the city fans, A very tidy pick up adding leadership.


Bruno is god not showing any signs of second year blues.