Marked for Weder Silva
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market18 Jan 2027
The offer from Floriana for Nikolai Muscat was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Weder Silva: 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.” Marsaxlokk have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market18 Jan 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Marsaxlokk have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Domantas Šimkus was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match16 Jan 2027
Valletta left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Uneasy
Match14 Nov 2026
6 matches without a win for Marsaxlokk
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Marsaxlokk are no longer polite ones.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad16 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Marsaxlokk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of James Kirby
“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.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Defensive actions: 15, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
14 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
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Steady
Match19 Oct 2026
Marsaxlokk are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 12 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Match17 Oct 2026
Still nobody has beaten Marsaxlokk
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad19 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Marsaxlokk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Oct 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Match17 Oct 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Zabbar St. Patrick will be the happier side with the point.
Squad19 Oct 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Upbeat
Match30 Sep 2026
A 3‑2 win over Mosta, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Match30 Sep 2026
Marsaxlokk win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 124th minute. Mosta will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Match3 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Marsaxlokk do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
One scored and one made, which is a different afternoon from scoring twice and an easier one to overlook. Marked 7.90, and involved in 2 of his side's goals.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
One scored and one made, which is a different afternoon from scoring twice and an easier one to overlook. Marked 7.75, and involved in 2 of his side's goals.
Squad5 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Marsaxlokk this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
21 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
151% of the income goes out in wages at Marsaxlokk
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Rasmus Lindén has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
Marco Medel was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Christoffer Mafoumbi, and the manager let it.
Match12 Sep 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Weder Silva dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Marco Medel finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Marsaxlokk have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.