Patrick Buttigieg

Defensive Midfielder - Sliema Wanderers
15 Feb 2027
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26 Edition

The Sliema Wanderers Herald

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market25 Jan 2027

Uroš Đuranović turns Zalgiris down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Match25 Jan 2027

Full time on the season at Sliema Wanderers

Position 2 on 46 points. Every season is a story and this is the last line of it, and now the club has three months to decide what the next one is about.

Market25 Jan 2027

Matteo Lorenzi has said yes to Hibernians

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Sliema Wanderers have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market25 Jan 2027

Vito Plut 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 Sliema Wanderers can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings25 Jan 2027

Vintage Nikos Karelis — 8.62

At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.62, and nobody on the pitch better.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Nikos Karelis is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.43 with 18 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Market25 Jan 2027

Only the photograph left for Jake Mangion

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jake Mangion will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Sliema Wanderers the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Goal number 100 for Nikos Karelis

100 goals in these colours now, every one of them somebody’s memory. There is a supporter in the stand who can tell you where he was for most of them.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Words at Sliema Wanderers training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Teddy Teuma is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief

Back issues
23 Edition

The Sliema Wanderers Herald

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match4 Jan 2027

Sliema Wanderers refuse to drop out of the race

Position 2, 40 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Match2 Jan 2027

Whatever happens, Sliema Wanderers do not lose

11 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Teddy Teuma is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Sliema Wanderers will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

Player ratings4 Jan 2027

Vintage Teddy Teuma — 8.42

At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.42, and nobody on the pitch better.

Market4 Jan 2027

Jake Mangion 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 Sliema Wanderers, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Nikos Karelis is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.34 with 15 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad4 Jan 2027

A falling-out at Sliema Wanderers

Murilo Henrique and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match2 Jan 2027

Teddy Teuma sends Sliema Wanderers past Hibernians

It finished 2‑0, and it was Teddy Teuma’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Sliema Wanderers.

Market4 Jan 2027

One of our own: Julian Bugeja joins the Sliema Wanderers first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Julian Bugeja is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief