Marked for Robert Murić
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Upbeat
Squad9 Nov 2026
113 days out for Jonas Moreira after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Floriana will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market9 Nov 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Floriana can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.51 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Transfer targets9 Nov 2026
Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets9 Nov 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Floriana
Kenan Dervišagić 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Floriana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gonzalo Gamarra 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Nobody could get near Paul Mbong
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Back issues
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Upbeat
Squad2 Nov 2026
120 days out for Jonas Moreira after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Floriana will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match31 Oct 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against Mosta, and it could have been more.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.36, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match2 Nov 2026
Floriana refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 13 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Kenan Dervišagić 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.
The terraces2 Nov 2026
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alen Kurtalić, and the manager let it.
Market2 Nov 2026
Dunstan Vella is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Floriana has been clear about where Dunstan Vella stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Leandro wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Floriana know it.
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Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
134 days out for Jonas Moreira after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Floriana will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Floriana
Kauan 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Floriana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gonzalo Gamarra was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Time is catching up with Bilau
Everybody at Floriana saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 36 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
Match17 Oct 2026
1‑2 to Gzira United, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“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.
Loan watch19 Oct 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Floriana, and 1 appearances in 10 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Bjorn Scicluna left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The form table has caught Bilau
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
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Upbeat
Squad12 Oct 2026
Jonas Moreira breaks a bone — 141 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 141 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market12 Oct 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Floriana, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Floriana
Gonzalo Gamarra and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“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; Floriana are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Victor Hugo is not the player he was
It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 33 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I watch every Floriana game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Mgarr United runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Gzira United in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Market12 Oct 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Kenan Dervišagić’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Upbeat
Squad21 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Floriana
Kenan Dervišagić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match19 Sep 2026
A 2‑1 win over Valletta, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.80 on the card, and the Floriana support went home talking about one name.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
“I watch every Floriana game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Hamrun Spartans runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Bjorn Scicluna, on a 2‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Owen Spiteri gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The form table has caught Bilau
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Triumph
Match29 Aug 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 8‑2 against Zabbar St. Patrick, and it could have been more.
Squad31 Aug 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The match ball belongs to Fede Varela, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A brace, and Kenan Dervišagić takes the afternoon — 8.37
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Kenan Dervišagić provided it, and the 8.37 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market31 Aug 2026
Floriana say no — this time
The offer from Hamrun Spartans for Dunstan Vella was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Floriana can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Kauan 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 10 goals between Floriana and Zabbar St. Patrick, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
4 academy players handed senior numbers at Floriana
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.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
Gonzalo Gamarra 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 targets10 Aug 2026
Floriana asked and Tarxien Rainbows said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Willian Sotto and Floriana agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
This league is too small for Jonas Moreira
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Floriana will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Market10 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A season on the outside for Robert Murić
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Floriana has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
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Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
Floriana say no — this time
The offer from JIPPO for Mustapha Jah was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Robert Murić commits to Floriana for another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Floriana
Guilherme Cioletti and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Floriana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gonzalo Gamarra was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Mgarr United have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Reece Cutajar. The answer from Floriana has not changed — yet.
Market3 Aug 2026
He signed expecting a bigger stage than the one he found. It has not taken long, and it has not taken the dressing room long to notice either.