Cahill’s A-League debut featured a 35 metre wonder goal and an assist as he gave Melbourne City bragging rights in their 4-1 rout of Melbourne Victory.  

The striker’s long range master piece in his first ever domestic league game sparked world- wide interest in Australia’s top flight and added to Cahill’s ever growing list of memorable goals.

O’Rourke said that the 36-year-old’s influence on the competition was startling.

“The thing about Tim Cahill is his power to attract people to the game and spark interest,” he said. “But it’s also the actual number of other players that are now signing up and looking to return to this league. The calibre of players that are now in the league means that there is an amplification affect.”

“Tim Cahill is currently the most recognised current Socceroo. If you were to have a look at all the stats around player’s names of football players around Australia, he outstrips them all multiple times.

“It resonates with a lot of people that actually don’t attend that aren’t members they know the name so again it sparks interest and they will come and see him.”

Cahill was linked to a possible return to his hometown of Sydney before signing with City.

Sky Blues CEO Tony Pignata said he looked forward to his side facing the superstar when he returns to Sydney.

“Tim’s name has been thrown around with us for a few years,” he said. “But I think in the end City took the opportunity and he’s doing well. It’s nice for someone else to go and spend some money and hopefully when he comes and plays us in December we can get a good crowd to welcome him to Sydney.”

Pignata said athough Sydney failed to sign a guest marquee in 2017, the club was not ruling out the possibility of signing one in the immediate future.

“Definitely,” he said. “We haven’t changed anything, if the right player comes along and then if it fits football wise and commercially then we’ll definitely look at it.

“There has been a lot of names that have been thrown around and first and foremost as a club we have got to make sure it’s a football decision. Then Graham Arnold and his football department will look at the player and if he says yeah that is the type of player then we’ve got to look at the commercial terms as well.

“Because you don’t want to bring someone in and spend a lot of money because we need to make sure that decision wise the football is right then commercially as well.

“We’ve got that option we’ve got a visa spot up our sleeve as well so we’ll see what happens but for now there is nothing out there.”