Daniel Carpentier

Left Forward - Sliema Wanderers
12 Feb 2029
Monday
Process

Marked for Daniel Carpentier

126 Edition

The Sliema Wanderers Herald

25 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Alexander Guerra is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.33 with 20 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

Daniel Carpentier keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Sliema Wanderers may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Tempers go at Sliema Wanderers

Alexander Guerra 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Sliema Wanderers against Birkirkara

2‑3 to Birkirkara, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings

Gustavo in the eights

A performance of 8.31 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

Alexander Guerra in the eights

A performance of 8.22 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Roko Prša

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

No hiding place for Jean Borg

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

Player ratings

Jean Borg never got going

5.59 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.

In brief

  • Market The Fernandinho story refuses to die
  • The terraces The press have found their man in Gustavo
Back issues
114 Edition

The Sliema Wanderers Herald

2 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

The small margins put Sliema Wanderers out

Out, 0‑1 to Marsaxlokk, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Squad

Giacomo Paciotti says Sliema Wanderers 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.

Player ratings

Clement Ansah runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Roko Prša signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Roko Prša commits to Sliema Wanderers for another 3 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Sliema Wanderers

Alexander Guerra 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.

Squad

The month belongs to Alexander Guerra

The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. Sliema Wanderers have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.

Match

Sliema Wanderers share the spoils with Mosta

A 1‑1 draw with Mosta leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Player ratings

Valerio Fumagalli keeps on missing

Shots: 11, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.

Player ratings

A day to forget for Daniel Carpentier

Marked 5.68, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.

In brief

78 Edition

The Sliema Wanderers Herald

24 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Rashed Al-Tumi says Sliema Wanderers 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.

Match

The wait goes on for Sliema Wanderers

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Tempers go at Sliema Wanderers

José Cadenas 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.

Market

Emeka Kelvin Agu attracts admirers

The name of Emeka Kelvin Agu has come up in conversations Sliema Wanderers were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

No hiding place for José Cadenas

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

Player ratings

A masterclass from Uroš Đuranović

Marked 8.53 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Market

Valletta expected to open talks for Adam Magri Overend

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Sliema Wanderers will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Match

Honours even between Sliema Wanderers and Tarxien Rainbows

2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Roko Prša

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

36 Edition

The Tours Chronicle

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Tours

Rémi Julien 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.

Squad

Bruno Aubry out for 38 days

The medical room confirms 38 days on the sidelines for Bruno Aubry, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Rémi Leroy stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Rémi Leroy and Tours agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief