The Tarxien Rainbows Courier
Market11 Jan 2027
Marko Musulin 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 Tarxien Rainbows can pretend not to have heard.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Patrick Schmidt 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 Tarxien Rainbows this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Nobody could get near Marko Musulin
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
One of those days for Ángel Valverde
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.14, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match9 Jan 2027
Tarxien Rainbows find a way past Marsaxlokk
Marsaxlokk made Tarxien Rainbows work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Patrick Schmidt in the eights
A performance of 8.20 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Milton Blanco 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Gilson Salazar left out for the big one
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Gilson Salazar will call it something else in private.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Too much change too quickly at Tarxien Rainbows
9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
- Market A long bet from Tarxien Rainbows on Harry Revill
- Market A long bet from Tarxien Rainbows on Max Kuczynski
- Market Tarxien Rainbows sign Stevy Brouwers, one for the future