The Gzira United Courier
Squad2 Jul 2029
Bruninho damages knee ligaments — 39 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 39 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Transfer targets2 Jul 2029
Tobias Bjørnstad turns down Gzira United
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Hamrun Spartans keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Market2 Jul 2029
Marc Van de Bovenkamp has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Gzira United they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Transfer targets2 Jul 2029
An offer of $250.0K for Alexandre Lopes
Gzira United have gone to Valletta with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets2 Jul 2029
Gzira United bid $110.0K for Gabriel Costa
The offer went to Hibernians this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad2 Jul 2029
Gzira United count the cost of losing Oresti Kasmollari
15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad2 Jul 2029
A row about effort at Gzira United
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luís Riascos was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad2 Jul 2029
Tempers go at Gzira United
Andrew Borg 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.
Market2 Jul 2029
Still no ink between Gzira United and Roméo Trémolières
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Gzira United, another week without a signature from Roméo Trémolières.
In brief
- Boardroom 4 new boys at the Gzira United academy
- The dugout David Moore gets it from the manager
- The dugout Roméo Trémolières knocks on the manager’s door