Kaique

Goalkeeper - Floriana
3 Aug 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Kaique

53 Edition

The Floriana Chronicle

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Paul Mbong has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Floriana they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

The dugout

Gonzalo Gamarra frozen out at Floriana

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

Squad

Words exchanged at Floriana

Kauan 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.

Squad

Mattia Veselji 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.

Squad

Kaique 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 Floriana know it.

The dugout

Alen Kurtalić is still paying for one afternoon at Floriana

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

In brief

Back issues
17 Edition

The Floriana Chronicle

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Guilherme Cioletti out for 42 days

42 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Floriana lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

Mattia Veselji sends Floriana through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Mattia Veselji obliged against St. Andrews. 2‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Floriana.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Floriana

The unbeaten run reaches 11. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

Kenan Dervišagić 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 Floriana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

Floriana supporters have found a favourite in Mustapha Jah

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Mustapha Jah 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.

Match

Floriana find a way past Hibernians

Hibernians made Floriana work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

One of those days for Kekuta Manneh

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.18, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

A row about effort at Floriana

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luís Soares was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings

Robert Murić was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.05. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief