The Birkirkara Courier
Boardroom8 May 2028
Etienne Vella has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Birkirkara can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Market8 May 2028
Macula asks to leave Birkirkara
“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.
Squad8 May 2028
Zach Muscat stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Zach Muscat and Birkirkara agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 May 2028
Tempers go at Birkirkara
Zach Muscat 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.
Market8 May 2028
A long bet from Birkirkara on Nichita Josan
He is 20, and nobody at Birkirkara signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Squad8 May 2028
No hiding place for Dejvi Duro
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dejvi Duro, and the manager let it.
Boardroom8 May 2028
$212.2K taken back off the Birkirkara table
What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.
Squad8 May 2028
The manager's exit leaves Denis Khodyko exposed
Every squad has men who were signed by a particular manager and men who were merely inherited. Denis Khodyko is in the first group, and the man who wanted him here is no longer in the building.
Market8 May 2028
Birkirkara pick up Lucas Kagan for nothing
The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Lucas Kagan arrives at Birkirkara with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.
In brief
- Market Birkirkara and Lucas Kagan are talking past each other
- Boardroom Birkirkara answer back