Marcelo

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Sliema Wanderers
24 Nov 2026
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Marked for Marcelo

15 Edition

The Sliema Wanderers Herald

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets9 Nov 2026

Zoey Monyepao turns down Sliema Wanderers

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Nikos Karelis in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sliema Wanderers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match7 Nov 2026

A bad afternoon for Sliema Wanderers against Floriana

1‑3 to Floriana, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout9 Nov 2026

The manager makes an example of Gustavo

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Appearance number 200 for Jean Borg

200 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.

The dugout9 Nov 2026

Victor Ellul answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Luke Montebello falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

The dugout9 Nov 2026

Matt Lowton asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Teddy Teuma has to sit this one out

A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. Sliema Wanderers lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.

In brief

Back issues
14 Edition

The Sliema Wanderers Herald

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout2 Nov 2026

Murilo Henrique: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Sliema Wanderers have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings2 Nov 2026

Nothing got past Gustavo

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 22 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Murilo Henrique in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sliema Wanderers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom2 Nov 2026

Wages eat 135% of everything Sliema Wanderers earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Loan watch2 Nov 2026

Sylvester Siaw wants to come home

“I did not go to Zurrieq to sit and watch. I want to come back to Sliema Wanderers and fight for my place.” 6 appearances in 12 matches say the rest.

Squad2 Nov 2026

A place in the month's best eleven for Ruan

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Ruan has come out of that comparison in the side, and Sliema Wanderers have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

The dugout2 Nov 2026

Victor Ellul on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Victor Ellul after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

The dugout2 Nov 2026

Matt Lowton knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Sliema Wanderers, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout2 Nov 2026

No hiding place for Marcelo

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marcelo, and the manager let it.

In brief