Adrian Ellul

Striker - Mosta
15 Apr 2029
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The Mosta Post

2 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match27 Sep 2028

Mosta out of the cup

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

Match30 Sep 2028

5 matches without a win for Mosta

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Mosta are no longer polite ones.

Squad2 Oct 2028

Marco Vanzini keeps the receipts

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

Squad2 Oct 2028

Salman Abubakar signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Salman Abubakar and Mosta agree another 2 years.

Squad2 Oct 2028

Akpan Udoh in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Mosta this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad2 Oct 2028

No hiding place for Akpan Udoh

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

Match30 Sep 2028

Sliema Wanderers take the points off Mosta

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Player ratings2 Oct 2028

The kick that got away from Ikechukwu Nwabueze

Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.

Player ratings2 Oct 2028

Nobody could get near Bjorni Duka

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

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The Mosta Post

6 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market6 Dec 2027

Gianluca Sciberras asks to leave Mosta

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad6 Dec 2027

Tempers go at Mosta

Matthew Bolaños 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.

Player ratings6 Dec 2027

Salman Abubakar runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad6 Dec 2027

Words at Mosta training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mohamed Awad 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.

Squad6 Dec 2027

The manager makes an example of Diamanka Senghor

“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.

Squad6 Dec 2027

Adrian Ellul signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Adrian Ellul and Mosta agree another 3 years.

Match4 Dec 2027

Honours even between Mosta and Marsaxlokk

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

Market6 Dec 2027

The Diamanka Senghor question follows Mosta around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Diamanka Senghor’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Player ratings6 Dec 2027

Prince Chibuzor Emmanuel never got going

5.56 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

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The Mosta Post

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market30 Aug 2027

Azer Kozić 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 Mosta can pretend not to have heard.

Match28 Aug 2027

The wait goes on for Mosta

5 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.

Squad30 Aug 2027

Mxolisi Bhengu is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad30 Aug 2027

Tempers go at Mosta

Akpan Udoh 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.

Squad30 Aug 2027

A late step up for Diamanka Senghor

At 26 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Boardroom30 Aug 2027

Graduation day at Mosta

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Match28 Aug 2027

Mosta cannot find the net

3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

Player ratings30 Aug 2027

Nobody could get near Salman Abubakar

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad30 Aug 2027

Words at Mosta training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matthew Bolaños 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.

In brief