The Mosta Post
Squad3 May 2027
A falling-out at Mosta
Ernest Agyiri and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market3 May 2027
Stephen Eikwu-Ojo comes back from a loan that worked
29 appearances and 2 goals away from here, and a player the manager did not have in August. Loans are sent out hoping for exactly this and most of them do not deliver it.
Squad3 May 2027
Words at Mosta training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Simon Zibo 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.
Market3 May 2027
The shop window has Léo Fernandes in it
Mosta have let the market know Léo Fernandes can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
The dugout3 May 2027
Emmanuel Ugwu 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.
Market3 May 2027
Pedro Cacho linked with a move away
The name of Pedro Cacho keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Mosta say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad3 May 2027
A promotion for Chris Aka
Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Chris Aka has moved up it.
Squad3 May 2027
Léo Fernandes remains an outsider
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Mosta would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
The dugout3 May 2027
Wendel Barros has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Wendel Barros has written the date down.
In brief
- Market Léo Fernandes back at Mosta
- Loan watch The clock runs down on Jamie Scerri at Birzebbuga St. Peter's