The Sliema Wanderers Herald
Squad11 Sep 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Gustavo
27 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Sliema Wanderers lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings11 Sep 2028
A brace, and Luca Bonin takes the afternoon — 8.53
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Luca Bonin provided it, and the 8.53 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad11 Sep 2028
A one-man rearguard from Emeka Kelvin Agu
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market11 Sep 2028
Arnaud David 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.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Words at Sliema Wanderers training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Uroš Đuranović 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.
The terraces11 Sep 2028
The crowd has taken to Luca Bonin
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match9 Sep 2028
Sliema Wanderers get the job done against Hamrun Spartans
A 2‑0 win over Hamrun Spartans, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Tempers go at Sliema Wanderers
Jake Micallef 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.
Market11 Sep 2028
The Uroš Đuranović story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Uroš Đuranović signs something — a contract at Sliema Wanderers or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Roko Prša
- Player ratings Nothing got past Lucas Scicluna
- Market Window shut, Roland Botka still here