Massimo Forte

Central Midfielder - Zabbar St. Patrick
20 Oct 2026
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Marked for Massimo Forte

11 Edition

The Zabbar St. Patrick Gazette

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market12 Oct 2026

Vladimir Gomlenko asks to leave Zabbar St. Patrick

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Player ratings12 Oct 2026

Nobody could get near Massimo Forte

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Zabbar St. Patrick

Neguete 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.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Brian Gambarte gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match10 Oct 2026

Zabbar St. Patrick come up short against Gzira United

Gzira United left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Vladimir Gomlenko wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Zabbar St. Patrick know it.

In brief

Back issues
10 Edition

The Zabbar St. Patrick Gazette

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match3 Oct 2026

Zabbar St. Patrick through in the cup

A 0‑0 win over Hamrun Spartans, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Match30 Sep 2026

Zabbar St. Patrick through in the cup

A 3‑1 win over Hamrun Spartans, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Vladimir Gomlenko scores twice — 8.20

Two goals and a mark of 8.20 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Neguete 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 Zabbar St. Patrick this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match3 Oct 2026

Whatever happens, Zabbar St. Patrick do not lose

6 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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Words at Zabbar St. Patrick training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Strahinja Jovančić is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The terraces5 Oct 2026

The crowd has taken to Massimo Forte

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Boardroom5 Oct 2026

Wages eat 140% of everything Zabbar St. Patrick 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.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Ninety minutes of Bruno Figueiredo at his very best

Marked 8.07. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Zabbar St. Patrick.

In brief

9 Edition

The Zabbar St. Patrick Gazette

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Age has not caught Mario Fontanella yet — 7.83

At 37 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.83 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Zabbar St. Patrick

Bruno Figueiredo 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.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Strahinja Jovančić 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.

Match26 Sep 2026

Zabbar St. Patrick see off Naxxar Lions

Three points for Zabbar St. Patrick, 1‑0 the final word against Naxxar Lions in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad28 Sep 2026

No hiding place for Im Young-Won

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

Player ratings28 Sep 2026

Mayron was immovable

15 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.

In brief

8 Edition

The Zabbar St. Patrick Gazette

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad21 Sep 2026

Bruno Figueiredo 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 Zabbar St. Patrick this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Manú gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Brian Gambarte runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match19 Sep 2026

Zabbar St. Patrick share the spoils with Valletta

A 2‑2 draw with Valletta leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Cameron Dalli 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.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Massimo Forte is off the mark for Zabbar St. Patrick

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

In brief