Jonathan Mintoff

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Sliema Wanderers U20
16 Jan 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Jonathan Mintoff

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The Sliema Wanderers Herald

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Uroš Đuranović runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Fabian Lauri asks to leave Sliema Wanderers

“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.

Squad

Jair Tavares 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 Sliema Wanderers this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Business is business: Sylvester Siaw goes

Naxxar Lions paid $32.0K and Sliema Wanderers took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad

Rashed Al-Tumi 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.

Squad

Dmitriy Sibilev has outgrown this division

There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Sliema Wanderers know it, and so does everybody who watches him.

Market

Sliema Wanderers buy the years ahead of Jonathan Mintoff

He is 17, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Market

Sliema Wanderers buy the years ahead of Philip Formosa

He is 16, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Match

Alexander Guerra rescues a point for Sliema Wanderers

It needed Alexander Guerra to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Valletta, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief