Basima Balagizi

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The Birkirkara Courier

20 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match20 Nov 2028

Nobody above Birkirkara

First, on 27 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.

Market20 Nov 2028

Jefferson Vinicius has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Birkirkara they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

The dugout20 Nov 2028

Macula frozen out at Birkirkara

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

Squad20 Nov 2028

Words exchanged at Birkirkara

Zach Muscat 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.

Looking ahead20 Nov 2028

Birkirkara and Floriana meet at the summit

The fixture the rest of the division is looking forward to more than either of the sides in it. Both know a win changes the season and a defeat does not end it, which is what makes it hard to play.

Squad20 Nov 2028

Words at Birkirkara training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luquinha 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.

The dugout20 Nov 2028

No hiding place for Eino-Iivari Pitkälä

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

The dugout20 Nov 2028

Rafa Santos has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Birkirkara 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.

The dugout20 Nov 2028

Will Grainger 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

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The Nottingham Forest Sentinel

13 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match8 Dec 2027

Nottingham Forest out of the cup

Leeds United ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Market13 Dec 2027

Nottingham Forest sell John Victor for $5.2M

John Victor has left for São Paulo in a $5.2M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

The dugout13 Dec 2027

Dilane Bakwa says Nottingham Forest 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.

Market13 Dec 2027

Zach Abbott 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 Nottingham Forest can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings13 Dec 2027

Ibrahim Sangaré goes up and wins it — 7.87

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.87 for the rest of it.

Market13 Dec 2027

Nikola Milenković wants more than Nottingham Forest are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Boardroom13 Dec 2027

Aaron Bott signs for Cambridge United while still at Nottingham Forest

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Aaron Bott has agreed terms with Cambridge United for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Market13 Dec 2027

Only the photograph left for Aaron Bott

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Aaron Bott will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Nottingham Forest the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad13 Dec 2027

The step up is real for Chinaza Nwosu

At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

In brief