Håkon Austad

Central Defender - Mosta
27 Jul 2042
Sunday
Process

Marked for Håkon Austad

831 Edition

The Mosta Post

30 Jun 2042
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Marco Spinelli puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Mosta, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Only the photograph left for Eden Fellaini

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Eden Fellaini will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Mosta the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market

Marsaxlokk come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Mosta did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Lenn Copier 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 Mosta this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Mosta training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Prince Chibuzor Emmanuel 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.

Boardroom

No signings allowed at Mosta

The manager may talk to whoever he likes and may pay nobody. A squad survives a window like this by borrowing, by promoting, and by hoping the injuries land somewhere else.

In brief

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736 Edition

The Gabala Gazette

3 Sep 2040
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

Afran Ismayilov has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Gabala can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Player ratings

Both of them Nahuel Ciro's — 9.50

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.50, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Boardroom

The Gabala board call everybody in

Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.

Boardroom

Gabala counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Gabala now.

Squad

Úlfur Ágúst Björnsson has been here 10 seasons

327 appearances across 10 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Market

Håkon Austad puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Gabala, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Agustín Albrini keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Gabala may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Match

Gabala find a way past Ravan

Ravan made Gabala work for it, but the scoreboard read 4‑3 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Match

7 goals as Gabala and Ravan go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Gabala and Ravan, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

In brief