The Hamrun Spartans Sentinel
Market11 Feb 2030
Juan Dussaubat has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Hamrun Spartans they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The dugout11 Feb 2030
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Squad11 Feb 2030
Ifeanyi Ihemekwele 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 Hamrun Spartans this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Feb 2030
Ryan Camenzuli 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.
Boardroom11 Feb 2030
92% of the income goes out in wages at Hamrun Spartans
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
The dugout11 Feb 2030
When it matters, Ognjen Bjeličić plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Squad11 Feb 2030
Guilherme Cardoso wants out of the dugout
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Hamrun Spartans will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
The dugout11 Feb 2030
Timothy Xuereb 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 Timothy Xuereb trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market11 Feb 2030
Window shut, Shakil Nicolaou still here
Hamrun Spartans spent the window trying to move Shakil Nicolaou on and nobody came. He trains with a squad that has already told him he is not part of it, and both sides now wait for the next one.
In brief
- The dugout Damir Céter keeps his manager's vote
- Squad Patrick Attard is out on the grass again