Simon Tabone

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Sliema Wanderers U20
24 Apr 2029
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Simon Tabone

57 Edition

The Sliema Wanderers Herald

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The dugout

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.

Market

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 targets

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.

Boardroom

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.

Market

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.

Market

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.

Market

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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