The Birkirkara Courier
Market7 Sep 2026
Birkirkara say no — this time
The offer from Hamrun Spartans for Shaun Dimech was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 5 signed and 0 gone
That is the business done at Birkirkara until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Birkirkara rebuffed over Cristian Lima
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Uruguay Montevideo have kept their man, and Birkirkara go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Cláudio Murici stays at Tarxien Rainbows as time runs out
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Birkirkara will try again when the window opens; Tarxien Rainbows may not be selling by then.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Birkirkara
Luis Mario Córdova and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Louis Pahama slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Louis Pahama is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Marco Pace signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marco Pace commits to Birkirkara for another 3 years.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Macula knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Macula trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Birkirkara have started building around Macula
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
In brief
- The dugout No hiding place for Ivan Camilleri
- Looking ahead Matthew Grech goes back to face Zabbar St. Patrick
- Market Shaun Dimech placed on the list