Rahmi Akcin

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The Balzan Post

20 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The dugout20 Nov 2028

Rahmi Akcin keeps the receipts

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

Market20 Nov 2028

Stefan Vella is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Balzan is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad20 Nov 2028

A falling-out at Balzan

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

Squad20 Nov 2028

Jerryson Willie 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.

Looking ahead20 Nov 2028

The big one: Marsaxlokk come into view

Two sides from the top of the table, one afternoon, and a month of talk decided in ninety minutes. Balzan will not use the word title this week and will not stop thinking it.

Boardroom20 Nov 2028

The Balzan debt reaches $4.1M

Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.

The dugout20 Nov 2028

No hiding place for Luis Gabriel

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Luis Gabriel, and the manager let it.

The dugout20 Nov 2028

Zachary Grech knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Zachary Grech trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market20 Nov 2028

The Oluwatobiloba Dimeji Awosanya talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Balzan know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

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The Balzan Post

27 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout27 Sep 2027

Ruben Rinaldini says Balzan 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.

Squad27 Sep 2027

Tempers go at Balzan

Paulo Júnior was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad27 Sep 2027

Yousuf Toure signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Yousuf Toure and Balzan agree another 3 years.

Squad27 Sep 2027

Words at Balzan training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jerryson Willie 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.

Match25 Sep 2027

Balzan see off Marsa

Three points for Balzan, 1‑0 the final word against Marsa in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings27 Sep 2027

A masterclass from Michael

Marked 8.03 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

The dugout27 Sep 2027

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Stefan Muscat, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

Boardroom27 Sep 2027

Nobody arrives at Balzan until somebody leaves

The club is not barred from spending; it simply has nothing to spend that it has not first raised. Every name linked with Balzan this window arrives with a name leaving in the same sentence.

The dugout27 Sep 2027

Oluwatobiloba Dimeji Awosanya asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

60 Edition

The Balzan Post

20 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings20 Sep 2027

Fernando Portel pops up at the right end — 7.71

7.71, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Squad20 Sep 2027

Paulo Júnior 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 Balzan know it.

Squad20 Sep 2027

Words exchanged at Balzan

Paulo Júnior 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.

Player ratings20 Sep 2027

Nobody could get near Jerryson Willie

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad20 Sep 2027

Jerryson Willie 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.

The terraces20 Sep 2027

One of their own: Yousuf Toure

He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match18 Sep 2027

Fernando Portel the difference as Balzan beat Tarxien Rainbows

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Fernando Portel. 1‑0 against Tarxien Rainbows, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The dugout20 Sep 2027

Jerryson Willie 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.

Boardroom20 Sep 2027

The borrowing at Balzan reaches $3.4M

Past the limit the bank set, which is the line between a club being financed and a club being in trouble. $3.4M is now the number every conversation about this club will start with.

In brief