The Floriana Chronicle
The dugout2 Jun 2031
Matías García says Floriana went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad2 Jun 2031
Tempers go at Floriana
Robert Murić 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.
Squad2 Jun 2031
Kenan Dervišagić falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad2 Jun 2031
Kirill Malykh has improved at 24, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
The dugout2 Jun 2031
Daniel Chesters 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.
Transfer targets2 Jun 2031
Floriana ask about Aleksandar Panayotov
A loan enquiry to Ludogorets: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout2 Jun 2031
Robert Murić has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Floriana will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout2 Jun 2031
A promise honoured at Floriana
Something was said to Raúl Spallone and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Market2 Jun 2031
The Kenan Dervišagić question follows Floriana around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Kenan Dervišagić’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
In brief
- Boardroom Floriana can sign again
- Squad Robert Ellul has had enough of the bench
- Market Raúl Spallone's agent talks up a move