The Mosta Post
Market30 Aug 2027
Terms done: Azer Kozić is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Valletta waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Mosta is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Thiago Espíndola breaks a bone — 24 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 24 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market30 Aug 2027
Azer Kozić 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.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
Sfundo Shezi keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Mosta may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Julián Balbuena wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Mosta know it.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Mosta
Pedro Cacho and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
5 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Simon Zibo 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.
Match28 Aug 2027
A bad afternoon for Mosta against Naxxar Lions
1‑2 to Naxxar Lions, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
In brief
- Market Mosta promote Dominic Spiteri from within
- Market Andre Mifsud steps up from the Mosta academy
- The dugout Akpan Udoh gets it from the manager