Jake Grech

Defensive Midfielder - Balzan
6 Jul 2027
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45 Edition

The Balzan Post

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market7 Jun 2027

Samir Arab says no to Melita

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Samir Arab had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Market7 Jun 2027

Yousuf Toure agrees terms with Zebbug Rangers

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Balzan people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market7 Jun 2027

Jake Portelli hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Balzan can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets7 Jun 2027

Ryan Camenzuli will not be coming to Balzan

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Hamrun Spartans is saying, and nobody at Balzan is enjoying the guessing.

The dugout7 Jun 2027

Michael frozen out at Balzan

This is not rotation. Michael has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Balzan is pretending otherwise.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Petar Gospodinov wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Balzan can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Words exchanged at Balzan

Umut Habil and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Boardroom7 Jun 2027

The numbers do not look good at Balzan

Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.

Transfer targets7 Jun 2027

Balzan rebuffed over Cluver Sambi Mbungu

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Hamrun Spartans have kept their man, and Balzan go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

In brief

  • Squad Words at Balzan training over how hard people work
  • Market Luis Gabriel is free to find somewhere else
  • The dugout Jake Grech gets it from the manager
Back issues
23 Edition

The Balzan Post

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings4 Jan 2027

Ayanda Vete was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 36. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match4 Jan 2027

Balzan are in among the leaders

Position 2 and 33 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Léo Fernandes is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Balzan will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

The dugout4 Jan 2027

Jake Grech: 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.” Balzan have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad4 Jan 2027

A falling-out at Balzan

Ayanda Vete and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets4 Jan 2027

Sliema Wanderers tell Balzan: Adam Magri Overend is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Marlon Rivero 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.

Market4 Jan 2027

Santa Lucia join the queue for Yousuf Toure

Add another name to the list: Santa Lucia have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Yousuf Toure. The answer from Balzan has not changed — yet.

Match2 Jan 2027

Balzan come up short against Mgarr United

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

In brief