The Metta/LU Gazette
Squad8 Mar 2027
Home is on Mahamud Abdul Karimu's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Metta/LU are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Metta/LU
Mahamud Abdul Karimu and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
5 academy graduates step up at Metta/LU
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A row about effort at Metta/LU
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ahmed Family was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market8 Mar 2027
Metta/LU promote Eduards Rugins from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Eduards Rugins 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.
Market8 Mar 2027
One of our own: Janis Gabovs joins the Metta/LU first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Janis Gabovs is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Mar 2027
One of our own: Janis Ciganovs joins the Metta/LU first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Janis Ciganovs is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Mar 2027
One of our own: Marcis Bulvitis joins the Metta/LU first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marcis Bulvitis is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
No hiding place for Ahmed Family
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ahmed Family, and the manager let it.