The Birkirkara Courier
Market7 Jul 2031
Alexandru Telehoi has said yes to Mgarr United
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Birkirkara have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market7 Jul 2031
Jan Harri Rehemaa 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 Birkirkara can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets7 Jul 2031
The paperwork begins on Enzo Kana-Biyik
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Birkirkara have done the hard part with Bristol Rovers, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad7 Jul 2031
Zach Muscat 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 Birkirkara this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets7 Jul 2031
Too dear: Birkirkara walk away from Matteo Cardinali
$62.0K was the most the club would pay and Hibernians were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad7 Jul 2031
Mauro Lulli 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.
Squad7 Jul 2031
Ivan Micallef stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ivan Micallef and Birkirkara agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom7 Jul 2031
Intake day at the Birkirkara academy
8 arrivals, an average age nobody would call a squad, and a set of parents being shown around a building their sons will spend more time in than at home. The scouting has already happened; today is only the paperwork.
Market7 Jul 2031
Mtarfa expected to open talks for Andre Bugeja
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Birkirkara will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
In brief
- Market Still no ink between Birkirkara and Nyanguila Kalonji
- Squad Alexandru Telehoi has had enough of the bench
- The dugout Matheus Santos knocks on the manager's door