Robert Bajada

Left Midfielder - Sliema Wanderers U20
24 Apr 2029
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Marked for Robert Bajada

73 Edition

The Sliema Wanderers Herald

20 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market20 Dec 2027

Rhichey 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 The request is on a desk at Sliema Wanderers, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market20 Dec 2027

Only the photograph left for Emeka Kelvin Agu

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

Match18 Dec 2027

The wait goes on for Sliema Wanderers

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match18 Dec 2027

A bad afternoon for Sliema Wanderers against Hamrun Spartans

0‑2 to Hamrun Spartans, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout20 Dec 2027

No hiding place for Uroš Đuranović

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Uroš Đuranović, and the manager let it.

Squad20 Dec 2027

A row about effort at Sliema Wanderers

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Fernandinho was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad20 Dec 2027

A falling-out at Sliema Wanderers

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

Squad20 Dec 2027

Sliema Wanderers count the cost of losing Robert Bajada

18 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

The dugout20 Dec 2027

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Stephen Aquilina left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief

Back issues
69 Edition

The Sliema Wanderers Herald

22 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match17 Nov 2027

The small margins put Sliema Wanderers out

Out, 0‑1 to Zabbar St. Patrick, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Player ratings22 Nov 2027

Nikos Karelis scores twice — 8.71

Two goals and a mark of 8.71 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

The dugout22 Nov 2027

Neil Frendo keeps the receipts

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

Market22 Nov 2027

Sylvester Siaw 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.

Market22 Nov 2027

Emeka Kelvin Agu is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Sliema Wanderers is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad22 Nov 2027

Tempers go at Sliema Wanderers

Nikos Karelis 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.

Squad22 Nov 2027

Number 100 for Nikos Karelis

100 goals for this club, and somewhere in the stand there is a person who can still tell you where they were for most of them.

Match20 Nov 2027

Sliema Wanderers get the job done against Zebbug Rangers

A 3‑1 win over Zebbug Rangers, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The dugout22 Nov 2027

Gustavo 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.

In brief

  • Squad Fernandinho falls out with a teammate over standards
  • Squad Robert Bajada out for 46 days
  • The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Gustavo's mistake
57 Edition

The Sliema Wanderers Herald

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The dugout30 Aug 2027

Wescley keeps the receipts

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

Market30 Aug 2027

Only the photograph left for Emeka Kelvin Agu

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

Transfer targets30 Aug 2027

Gzira United tell Sliema Wanderers: Edoardo Colombo 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.

Boardroom30 Aug 2027

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Sliema Wanderers

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Market30 Aug 2027

Sliema Wanderers promote Robert Bajada from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Robert Bajada has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market30 Aug 2027

One of our own: Charlton Farrugia joins the Sliema Wanderers first team

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

Market30 Aug 2027

Simon Tabone steps up from the Sliema Wanderers academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Simon Tabone has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Match28 Aug 2027

Sliema Wanderers come up short against Valletta

Valletta left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad30 Aug 2027

A falling-out at Sliema Wanderers

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

In brief