The Melita Chronicle
The dugout24 Apr 2034
Cedric Kobel frozen out at Melita
This is not rotation. Cedric Kobel has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Melita is pretending otherwise.
Squad24 Apr 2034
Bence Bodnár 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 Melita this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Apr 2034
Words at Melita training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Birger Meling 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.
Boardroom24 Apr 2034
Wages swallow 295% of the Melita income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Boardroom24 Apr 2034
The borrowing at Melita reaches $4.7M
Past the limit the bank set, which is the line between a club being financed and a club being in trouble. $4.7M is now the number every conversation about this club will start with.
The dugout24 Apr 2034
Ivin Farrugia back under a manager who knows him
The new man at Melita has worked with Ivin Farrugia before and it went well. He arrives with a view of the player already formed, which is worth more than any pre-season.
Squad24 Apr 2034
Nicholas Buttigieg out for 27 days
The medical room confirms 27 days on the sidelines for Nicholas Buttigieg, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad24 Apr 2034
A muscle injury sidelines Alex Pisani for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Melita will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
The dugout24 Apr 2034
The manager makes an example of Jayden Ohaka
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Ayanda Bophela's mistake
- Market The Yankho Singo story refuses to die
- Market Ilja Medvedev runs his contract down