The Zurrieq Courier
Squad2 Apr 2029
The knee: Alex Santos out for 61 days
61 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Zurrieq lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Boardroom2 Apr 2029
Raymond Mercieca has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Zurrieq can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Market2 Apr 2029
Only the photograph left for Zachary Brincat
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Zachary Brincat will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Zurrieq the goodbyes have quietly begun.
The dugout2 Apr 2029
Willian Sotto frozen out at Zurrieq
This is not rotation. Willian Sotto has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Zurrieq is pretending otherwise.
Market2 Apr 2029
Malcolm Dimech asks to leave Zurrieq
“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.
Market2 Apr 2029
No place for Willian Sotto in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Willian Sotto has his answer from Zurrieq; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Boardroom2 Apr 2029
No signings allowed at Zurrieq
The manager may talk to whoever he likes and may pay nobody. A squad survives a window like this by borrowing, by promoting, and by hoping the injuries land somewhere else.
Market2 Apr 2029
Still no ink between Zurrieq and Kemar Reid
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Zurrieq, another week without a signature from Kemar Reid.
Squad2 Apr 2029
Words at Zurrieq training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gabriel Aquilina 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
- Squad A step back for Gabriel Aquilina at Zurrieq
- The dugout The manager's exit leaves Brandon Paiber exposed
- Squad Zurrieq take the armband off Kemar Reid