Samuel Bajada

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Birzebbuga St. Peter's U20
20 May 2029
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Marked for Samuel Bajada

133 Edition

The Birzebbuga St. Peter's Courier

12 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad12 Feb 2029

Samuel Bajada damages knee ligaments — 17 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 17 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.

Match12 Feb 2029

Birzebbuga St. Peter's finish in position 8

28 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.

Squad12 Feb 2029

A fracture rules Patrick Mintoff out for 16 days

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

Market12 Feb 2029

Only the photograph left for Maxim Modulev

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Maxim Modulev will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Birzebbuga St. Peter's the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad12 Feb 2029

A falling-out at Birzebbuga St. Peter's

Matías García and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets12 Feb 2029

Birzebbuga St. Peter's rebuffed over Alessandro Coppola

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Birkirkara have kept their man, and Birzebbuga St. Peter's go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad12 Feb 2029

Yamine Abair 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.

Match10 Feb 2029

Birzebbuga St. Peter's rescue it on 86 minutes

Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 86. Hamrun Spartans had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.

Match10 Feb 2029

Wallace rescues a point for Birzebbuga St. Peter's

It needed Wallace to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Hamrun Spartans, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief

Back issues
132 Edition

The Birzebbuga St. Peter's Courier

5 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad5 Feb 2029

A knee injury of the worst kind for Samuel Bajada

24 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Birzebbuga St. Peter's lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad5 Feb 2029

Patrick Mintoff breaks a bone — 23 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 23 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market5 Feb 2029

Maxim Modulev hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Birzebbuga St. Peter's can pretend not to have heard.

Market5 Feb 2029

Only the photograph left for Jacob Safa

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jacob Safa will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Birzebbuga St. Peter's the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Player ratings5 Feb 2029

Fran Obiagwu, 20, steals the show — 8.01

Marked 8.01 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Boardroom5 Feb 2029

Window shuts: 1 in, 3 out at Birzebbuga St. Peter's

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 1 arrived, 3 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Boardroom5 Feb 2029

Birzebbuga St. Peter's to lose Jacob Safa for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Jacob Safa has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Transfer targets5 Feb 2029

Hibernians tell Birzebbuga St. Peter's: Musa Magagula is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad5 Feb 2029

Words at Birzebbuga St. Peter's training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías García 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.

In brief

131 Edition

The Birzebbuga St. Peter's Courier

29 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad29 Jan 2029

Samuel Bajada damages knee ligaments — 31 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 31 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.

Squad29 Jan 2029

Patrick Mintoff breaks a bone — 30 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 30 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market29 Jan 2029

Alex Bruno asks to leave Birzebbuga St. Peter's

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market29 Jan 2029

William James England agrees terms with Santa Lucia

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Birzebbuga St. Peter's people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Squad29 Jan 2029

Tempers go at Birzebbuga St. Peter's

Matías García 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.

Squad29 Jan 2029

Yamine Abair 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.

Market29 Jan 2029

Talks stall between Birzebbuga St. Peter's and Yamine Abair

“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.

Player ratings29 Jan 2029

Donte Ranger was the difference for Birzebbuga St. Peter's

Marked 7.39. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

The dugout29 Jan 2029

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Matteo Gauci was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Birzebbuga St. Peter's dressing room was either.

In brief

130 Edition

The Birzebbuga St. Peter's Courier

22 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad22 Jan 2029

Samuel Bajada damages knee ligaments — 38 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 38 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.

Market22 Jan 2029

Andrés Bolaños asks to leave Birzebbuga St. Peter's

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market22 Jan 2029

Birzebbuga St. Peter's turn down Swieqi United for William James England

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets22 Jan 2029

Musa Magagula due for a Birzebbuga St. Peter's medical

Everything agreed with Hibernians, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad22 Jan 2029

Tempers go at Birzebbuga St. Peter's

Donte Ranger 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.

Transfer targets22 Jan 2029

Birzebbuga St. Peter's rebuffed over Matteo Cardinali

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Hibernians have kept their man, and Birzebbuga St. Peter's go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad22 Jan 2029

Yamine Abair 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.

The terraces22 Jan 2029

The crowd has taken to Donte Ranger

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match20 Jan 2029

Birzebbuga St. Peter's get the job done against Marsaxlokk

A 1‑0 win over Marsaxlokk, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

In brief