The Metta/LU Gazette
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Nikita Tarasovs is a medical away from Metta/LU
The deal with Skonto is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Metta/LU
Abba Khalid and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Klevi Hasaj arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Klevi Hasaj has, at Metta/LU, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Metta/LU rebuffed over Vladimir Zadiraka
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Kirov have kept their man, and Metta/LU go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Jamiu Sulaimon 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
Metta/LU sign Klevi Hasaj, one for the future
Klevi Hasaj is 18, and Metta/LU have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
In brief
- Squad Afonso Leite is a square peg at Metta/LU
- Market Mahamud Abdul Karimu linked with a move away
- Market Still no ink between Metta/LU and Klevi Hasaj