Marko Baumgartner

Defensive Midfielder - Valletta
22 Oct 2030
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Marked for Marko Baumgartner

201 Edition

The Valletta Chronicle

3 Jun 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom3 Jun 2030

Valletta spell it out for Stefan Sammut

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Stefan Sammut has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Market3 Jun 2030

Marko Baumgartner puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Valletta, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad3 Jun 2030

Valletta lose Yuri Messias

48 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad3 Jun 2030

Tempers go at Valletta

David Andrew 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.

Squad3 Jun 2030

Words at Valletta training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías García 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.

Squad3 Jun 2030

Kurt Zammit gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

Back issues
150 Edition

The Valletta Chronicle

11 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market11 Jun 2029

Marsaxlokk come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Valletta did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Boardroom11 Jun 2029

Diogo Tavares signs for Floriana while still at Valletta

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

Squad11 Jun 2029

Tempers go at Valletta

Matías García 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.

Squad11 Jun 2029

Real improvement from Marko Baumgartner at Valletta

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Marko Baumgartner is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad11 Jun 2029

Kyle Gatt gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Kyle Gatt has just signed for Valletta, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad11 Jun 2029

Raul Alessandro Bura 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.

In brief

141 Edition

The Valletta Chronicle

9 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad9 Apr 2029

Claudio Saieva breaks a bone — 91 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 91 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match9 Apr 2029

Valletta sink to position 10

26 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market9 Apr 2029

Ruslan Belov 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 Valletta can pretend not to have heard.

Market9 Apr 2029

Marius Slavickas has one foot out of the door

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

Squad9 Apr 2029

Claudio Saieva stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Claudio Saieva and Valletta agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad9 Apr 2029

Tempers go at Valletta

Matías García 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.

In brief