The Sliema Wanderers Herald
Market8 Jan 2035
Jason León 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 Sliema Wanderers can pretend not to have heard.
Squad8 Jan 2035
Tempers go at Sliema Wanderers
Emeka Kelvin Agu 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.
Squad8 Jan 2035
André Seruca 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.
Squad8 Jan 2035
The manager makes an example of Jason León
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad8 Jan 2035
The team sheet said everything about Gustavo
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Gustavo.
Market8 Jan 2035
The Daniel Mallia conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: Naxxar Lions will make the call about Daniel Mallia this week. Sliema Wanderers have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Market8 Jan 2035
Sliema Wanderers sign Emanuel Debono, one for the future
Emanuel Debono is 19, and Sliema Wanderers 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.
Match6 Jan 2035
Sliema Wanderers and Floriana take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Market8 Jan 2035
The Roko Prša talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Sliema Wanderers know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- Player ratings Molemo Seemela runs at them all day
- Boardroom The Sliema Wanderers production line keeps running