With just days to go before the start of the A-League season, the attention of the Australian soccer public is firmly on Melbourne City and their massive marquee singing Tim Cahill.
The A-League has had some giant signings before, including Italian superstar Alessandro Del Piero and Harry Kewell, but none have had the national profile of Cahill, who has been the superstar of Australia's national football team for the past 15 years.
Cahill has been at the heart of all the great Socceroos moments of the modern era and he shares as high a profile of any sportsman in Australia at the moment.