The Tarxien Rainbows Courier
Market9 Aug 2027
Kwasi Donsu 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 Tarxien Rainbows can pretend not to have heard.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Nhayson wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Tarxien Rainbows can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad9 Aug 2027
A row about effort at Tarxien Rainbows
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marko Musulin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
Sliema Wanderers tell Tarxien Rainbows: Lucca Moscatello is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Yilson Mosquera 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 Tarxien Rainbows this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Andreas Vella stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Andreas Vella and Tarxien Rainbows agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
Patrick Schmidt has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Tarxien Rainbows will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market9 Aug 2027
The Kwasi Donsu question follows Tarxien Rainbows around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Kwasi Donsu’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Market9 Aug 2027
The shop window has Henrique Moritz in it
Tarxien Rainbows have let the market know Henrique Moritz can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
In brief
- Market The clock does Klajvi Zeneli’s negotiating for him
- The dugout Andre Bajada asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Marko Musulin