Karolis Cernych

Striker - Marsaxlokk
22 Aug 2030
Thursday
Process

Marked for Karolis Cernych

185 Edition

The Marsaxlokk Gazette

11 Feb 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Tamkin Garayev asks to leave Marsaxlokk

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

So close: Antonio Amato’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Valletta moved on, Antonio Amato reports back to Marsaxlokk, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

Squad

Tempers go at Marsaxlokk

Fabian Salmon was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Yerime Ouattara gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Tamkin Garayev 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 Marsaxlokk know it.

Market

Marsaxlokk buy the years ahead of Karolis Cernych

He is 18, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

In brief

Back issues
151 Edition

The Stumbras Herald

18 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Edvinas Lasickas keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Stumbras may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Stumbras lose Modestas Kuklys

20 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

Shaxzod Shaymanov 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 Stumbras this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Karolis Kuklys knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Karolis Kuklys trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

The shop window has Zurab Daraselia in it

Stumbras have let the market know Zurab Daraselia can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

Market

Ignas Jankauskas leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Ignas Jankauskas leaves Stumbras the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

In brief