The Gudja United Herald
Boardroom2 Jul 2029
Gudja United spell it out for Mark Scicluna
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Mark Scicluna has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Squad2 Jul 2029
A fracture rules Yanis Méguirèche out for 97 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Gudja United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Boardroom2 Jul 2029
The Gudja United board call everybody in
Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.
Market2 Jul 2029
César Germán Andrés Paiber puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Gudja United, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets2 Jul 2029
Gabriel Perea is a medical away from Gudja United
The deal with Mosta is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Boardroom2 Jul 2029
The owner puts $71.7K into Gudja United
This is money that keeps the lights on rather than money that buys a centre-half, and the difference is the whole story. A club funded by its owner rather than by its football has exactly one conversation left ahead of it.
Squad2 Jul 2029
Anton Sindt wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Gudja United can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad2 Jul 2029
A falling-out at Gudja United
Anton Sindt and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market2 Jul 2029
One of our own: Adrian Xerri joins the Gudja United first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Adrian Xerri is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Gilbert Mintoff joins the Gudja United first team
- Market Timothy Ellul steps up from the Gudja United academy
- Squad Gudja United count the cost of losing Oliver Mintoff