Marked for Myles Beerman
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad6 Nov 2028
Adam Magri Overend damages knee ligaments — 46 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 46 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.
Match6 Nov 2028
Position 3, 19 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.
Squad6 Nov 2028
Words at Sliema Wanderers training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gustavo 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.
Match4 Nov 2028
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad6 Nov 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Myles Beerman, and the manager let it.
Squad6 Nov 2028
Mohamed Awad 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.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad21 Aug 2028
127 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Sliema Wanderers lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market21 Aug 2028
“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 The request is on a desk at Sliema Wanderers, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Ibrahim Al-Hazmi is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Market21 Aug 2028
The shirt still fits. Myles Beerman is back at Sliema Wanderers, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad21 Aug 2028
At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 4 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Squad21 Aug 2028
Emeka Kelvin Agu 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.
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Steady
Squad27 Mar 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Floriana may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market27 Mar 2028
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Floriana have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad27 Mar 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Floriana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad27 Mar 2028
Words at Floriana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kauan 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.
Squad27 Mar 2028
Kauan 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 terraces27 Mar 2028
Supporters make their feelings known about Kenan Dervišagić
The speculation has reached the stands, and the stands have answered. Floriana would like this settled before it becomes the only thing anybody asks about.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market6 Sep 2027
“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.
Market6 Sep 2027
Floriana say no — this time
The offer from Hibernians for Gonzalo Gamarra 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.
Market6 Sep 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Saud Al-Tumbukti will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Floriana the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad6 Sep 2027
168 appearances across 8 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Floriana know what they have.
Squad6 Sep 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Charles M'Mombwa and Floriana agree another 4 years.
Squad6 Sep 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Floriana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Luca Martinazzi is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Match4 Sep 2027
1‑3 to Tarxien Rainbows, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Market6 Sep 2027
Kouya Mabea 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 Kouya Mabea stands, which is more than many ever get.
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Upbeat
Market19 Jul 2027
“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.
Market19 Jul 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Floriana they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad19 Jul 2027
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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market5 Jul 2027
“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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Fede Varela 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 Floriana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Gonzalo Gamarra 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Aleandro Garzia has improved at 25, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“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.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
Floriana release $68.7K for the manager
The board have put money on the table rather than an encouraging word. What happens to it now is somebody else's problem, and somebody else's job.