Port Kembla's injured Sydney FC striker Corey Gameiro is in search of a new club after being excluded from a final list of returned players for next season.
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For months Gameiro's contract situation had been delayed, after suffering an anterior cruciate ligament knee injury which kept him sidelined for most of a season where the Sky Blues finished second to Melbourne Victory.
Gameiro has been in stunning goal-scoring form, until suffering the injury, his second major setback in two years.
It is expected he will stay in the A-League as he considers offers.
It comes after the English Premier League's player of the year, Eden Hazard, gave a master class as team of the year Chelsea defeated Sydney FC 1-0 at ANZ Stadium.
Before a crowd of 83,598, just 235 short of the reconfigured ground record, Hazard was dominant.
The Sky Blues were well aware of the Belgian's prowess, but no amount of Hazard warnings could have prepared them for the virtuoso performance he turned on before a massive gate, twice as big as Chelsea's home capacity at Stamford Bridge.
Hazard's speed, touch, feints, sleight of foot and passing, long and short, were simply dazzling.
The only way Sydney defender Seb Ryall could stop him was to bring him down, earning the game's only yellow card.
Yet Sydney FC could hold their heads high, giving a spirited effort against England's Premier League champions just four days after losing by the same margin to Tottenham.
In the end this was a match that had Hazard's dominance stamped all over it.
The only difference on the scoreboard came from a stunning strike on the half-hour mark from Loic Remy.
The Frenchman cut inside on the edge of the box and curled a searing left-foot strike inside the far post that gave goalkeeper Vedran Janjetovic no chance.
Hazard created several clear-cut chances, and Remy would have had a second if Alex Gersbach had not headed off his line.
Spanish striker Diego Costa proved a handful for Sydney's defence too before injury forced him off after 40 minutes.
Costa showed the form that delivered him a 20-goal EPL season, embarking on several solo runs that at times left Sydney's defenders mesmerised.
The Sky Blues did manage to fashion chances of their own.
Gersbach beat his man wide on the left only for Robert Stambolziev to fluff his lines; Chris Naumoff and Alex Brosque shared a double effort only to be denied by goalkeeper Petr Cech; and centre-back Branislav Ivanovic and Terry Antonis forced a couple of sharp saves from the custodian.
But they could find no way through the defences of the EPL champions, marshalled superbly by captain John Terry. AAP