The Melita Chronicle
Market7 Jun 2027
Zak Grech 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.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
No thanks: Samir Arab rejects the move
Melita had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Balzan, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad7 Jun 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
A move Alex Cano would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Alex Cano is living that version at Melita, and it tends to show in the first month.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
Melita rebuffed over Ryan Camenzuli
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Hamrun Spartans have kept their man, and Melita go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad7 Jun 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.
The dugout7 Jun 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.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
Michael Cachia frozen out at Melita
This is not rotation. Michael Cachia has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Melita is pretending otherwise.
Market7 Jun 2027
Still no ink between Melita and Josh Tobin
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Melita, another week without a signature from Josh Tobin.
In brief
- Transfer targets A loan move for Yannick Yankam is in the works
- Market Melita buy the years ahead of Alex Cano
- Squad Alex Cano signs on for more