The Mosta Post
Market31 Aug 2026
Russell Caruana 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Mosta
Francisco Vera 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.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
3 academy players handed senior numbers at Mosta
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market31 Aug 2026
Clive Grima steps up from the Mosta academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Clive Grima has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market31 Aug 2026
Pierre Psaila steps up from the Mosta academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Pierre Psaila has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market31 Aug 2026
One of our own: Ivan Spiteri joins the Mosta first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ivan Spiteri is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Timothy Atamenwan runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
Mosta turn down the training-ground plan
It is the quietest way a club tells you what its ambitions are. The money was asked for, the money was refused, and the people who work there every day now know exactly where they stand.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Mosta pick somebody else ahead of Nevin Portelli
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
In brief
- Match No goals between Mosta and Naxxar Lions
- Squad Willian Salomão left out for tactical reasons at Mosta
- Squad Rosiel has had enough of the bench