Gilbert Ellul

Left Forward - St. Andrews U18
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Marked for Gilbert Ellul

95 Edition

The St. Andrews Sentinel

22 May 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad22 May 2028

A fracture rules Gilbert Ellul out for 16 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason St. Andrews will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

The dugout22 May 2028

Bradley Sciberras frozen out at St. Andrews

This is not rotation. Bradley Sciberras has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at St. Andrews is pretending otherwise.

Squad22 May 2028

Words at St. Andrews training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rivaldo 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.

Boardroom22 May 2028

St. Andrews are $3.6M in the red

The borrowing is past what the bank agreed, which is the line where a debt stops being how football is financed and starts being a problem. Every phone-in in this town will quote the figure for the next five years.

The dugout22 May 2028

Bradley Sciberras 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.

The dugout22 May 2028

St. Andrews keep their word to Mattia Galliano

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Squad22 May 2028

Tempers go at St. Andrews

Clay Paul Tanti 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.

The dugout22 May 2028

Taylon gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Taylon is on it.

Market22 May 2028

The Taylon question follows St. Andrews around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Taylon’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

Back issues
94 Edition

The St. Andrews Sentinel

15 May 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad15 May 2028

A fracture rules Gilbert Ellul out for 23 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason St. Andrews will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad15 May 2028

Tempers go at St. Andrews

Taylon 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.

Squad15 May 2028

A row about effort at St. Andrews

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

Boardroom15 May 2028

Wages swallow 162% of the St. Andrews income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

Squad15 May 2028

St. Andrews count the cost of losing Clay Paul Tanti

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

The dugout15 May 2028

Neto is still paying for one afternoon at St. Andrews

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

The dugout15 May 2028

Bradley Sciberras knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at St. Andrews, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market15 May 2028

The Edson Silva talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. St. Andrews know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Market15 May 2028

The clock does Ryan Scicluna’s negotiating for him

7 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee St. Andrews could ask drops and the wages Ryan Scicluna can ask rise.

In brief

93 Edition

The St. Andrews Sentinel

8 May 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad8 May 2028

30 days out for Gilbert Ellul after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. St. Andrews will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

The dugout8 May 2028

Rivaldo frozen out at St. Andrews

This is not rotation. Rivaldo has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at St. Andrews is pretending otherwise.

The dugout8 May 2028

Karl Erik Jürisson: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” St. Andrews have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad8 May 2028

Taylon 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 St. Andrews this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom8 May 2028

The owner puts $81.9K into St. Andrews

This is money that keeps the lights on rather than money that buys a centre-half, and the difference is the whole story. A club funded by its owner rather than by its football has exactly one conversation left ahead of it.

Squad8 May 2028

Yuri Feitosa 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 St. Andrews know it.

Squad8 May 2028

Words at St. Andrews training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rivaldo 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.

Market8 May 2028

Talks stall between St. Andrews and Sven Xerri

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

The dugout8 May 2028

Alex Galea 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