The Santa Lucia Gazette
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Both of them Jed Valletta's — 8.44
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.44, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
Gianluca Bugeja says Santa Lucia 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Home is on Gabriel Thiago'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; Santa Lucia are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Gabriel Santiago 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 Santa Lucia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Santa Lucia
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
Too dear: Santa Lucia walk away from Aikins Kwabena Antiedu
$8.0K was the most the club would pay and Fgura United were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
Santa Lucia rebuffed over Emmanuel Ugwu
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Mosta have kept their man, and Santa Lucia go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Rinor Ajdini 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.
Match28 Aug 2027
Santa Lucia see off Zurrieq
Three points for Santa Lucia, 2‑1 the final word against Zurrieq in a contest settled by the finer margins.
In brief
- The terraces One of their own: Steve Gauci
- Market One of our own: Patrick Muscat joins the Santa Lucia first team
- Market Santa Lucia promote Andrew Ellul from within