Ben Cassar

Left Midfielder - Melita
10 Aug 2027
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Marked for Ben Cassar

49 Edition

The Melita Chronicle

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market5 Jul 2027

Only the photograph left for Jesús Yépez

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jesús Yépez will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Melita the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Market5 Jul 2027

Ben Cassar 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 The request is on a desk at Melita, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout5 Jul 2027

Jesús Yépez frozen out at Melita

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

Squad5 Jul 2027

Home is on Andrej Kirovski's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Melita are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad5 Jul 2027

Words exchanged at Melita

Branislav Sokol 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.

Transfer targets5 Jul 2027

Door shut on Donovan Makoma

Melita asked and Birkirkara said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad5 Jul 2027

A row about effort at Melita

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

Market5 Jul 2027

Eric Mensah told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Eric Mensah has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Melita.

Transfer targets5 Jul 2027

Melita ask about Yannick Yankam

A loan enquiry to Valletta: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

In brief

Back issues
41 Edition

The Melita Chronicle

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market10 May 2027

Zak Grech 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 Melita can pretend not to have heard.

Squad10 May 2027

Words exchanged at Melita

Branislav Sokol 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.

The dugout10 May 2027

Aleksandar Kozhuharov 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.

Squad10 May 2027

Andrej Kirovski is a square peg at Melita

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

Squad10 May 2027

A row about effort at Melita

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

The dugout10 May 2027

Stephen Eikwu-Ojo has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Melita will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Squad10 May 2027

A season on the outside for Andrej Kirovski

He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Melita has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.

Market10 May 2027

The Jesús Yépez question follows Melita around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Jesús Yépez’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Market10 May 2027

Ben Cassar placed on the list

Melita have made Ben Cassar available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief

21 Edition

The Melita Chronicle

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad21 Dec 2026

The knee: Jean Pierre Attard out for 107 days

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

The dugout21 Dec 2026

Ben Cassar says Melita went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market21 Dec 2026

Michael Cachia asks to leave Melita

“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.

Squad21 Dec 2026

Josh Tobin 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 Melita this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad21 Dec 2026

Words at Melita training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joseph Molangoane 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.

Squad21 Dec 2026

100 appearances for Kevin Moreno

100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

Player ratings21 Dec 2026

Josh Tobin takes the honours

Marked 7.26 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Melita had the best player on the pitch.

Player ratings21 Dec 2026

Jesús Yépez was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 14. 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.

The dugout21 Dec 2026

Pierre Spiteri: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

In brief