The Hibernians Gazette
Squad14 Jul 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Fede Varela
41 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hibernians lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market14 Jul 2031
Birkirkara come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Hibernians did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market14 Jul 2031
Mpho Moletsane has said yes to Zabbar St. Patrick
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Hibernians have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market14 Jul 2031
Only the photograph left for Billy Gough
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Billy Gough will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Hibernians the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Transfer targets14 Jul 2031
Bogdan Bacalu is a medical away from Hibernians
The deal with Hamrun Spartans is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad14 Jul 2031
Tempers go at Hibernians
Kevin Halabaku 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.
Squad14 Jul 2031
Charleston 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.
Transfer targets14 Jul 2031
Hibernians rebuffed over Bogdan Bacalu
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Hamrun Spartans have kept their man, and Hibernians go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market14 Jul 2031
No place for Jesús Yépez in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Jesús Yépez has his answer from Hibernians; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
In brief
- Squad Hibernians lose Gilbert Ellul
- Transfer targets Hibernians ask about Richard Hamilton
- The dugout Kevin Halabaku has become a man the manager trusts