MELBOURNE CITY FC have today confirmed the signing of ex-Ireland international Liam Miller, killing off any hope of a rumoured move to Cork City.
Miller has been playing in Australia since 2011 and recently had his contract with Brisbane Roar terminated, subsequently explaining that he felt “disrespected” by the manager there.
Yet a return to his native Cork will have to wait, with Melbourne announcing the acquisition of the former Celtic and Sunderland player via a statement on their official website today:
“Melbourne City FC can announce that Liam Miller will join the Club on a short-term contract and will be available for selection for this Sunday’s Hyundai A-League match against the Central Coast Mariners at AAMI Park.
“Miller, 33, will be eligible for selection under Football Federation Australia’s National Team Replacement Player rule.
“Miller trained with Melbourne City FC this morning and will be in John van’t Schip’s calculations for this week’s match against the Mariners.”
Shows again the FAI are a total failure making sure the league of Ireland teams have a realistic chance of bringing in some players like miller and duff even at the tail of their careers would be a huge boost to the profile of the league and the players could impart back a lot of what they have learned.
Instead an infant league created only several years in 2004 ago is grabbing them and growing in profile.
They know how to create and market correctly. The Australian and New Zealand league has 10 teams in total.
Slime ball Delaney and co are only interested in watching their favourite foreign teams on TV and pocketing any funds raised that should go to development of the game in Ireland.
pity. cant blame him but would have been an amazing signing for Cork City
What a waste of talent. If he had of stayed with Celtic for maybe a year or two more instead of been a greedy little shit.. He was only an emerging talent back then and was wasted sitting on the bench at United.. Back then Celtic had Petrov and Lambert in the middle, not a bad double act to play alongside at the start of your career.. Instead he was behind Keane and Scholes at the peak of their careers, no way was he going to break through down there…
Think it’s only for one game he was signed as an emergency ..