Dejan Đurić

Central Defender - Sliema Wanderers
28 Nov 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Dejan Đurić

15 Edition

The Sliema Wanderers Herald

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Fernandinho

88 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.

Match

Sliema Wanderers are in real trouble now

Position 10, 10 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Market

Dejan Đurić asks to leave Sliema Wanderers

“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.

Player ratings

Roko Prša runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 28. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at Sliema Wanderers

Murilo Henrique 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.

Match

Sliema Wanderers see off Tarxien Rainbows

Three points for Sliema Wanderers, 1‑0 the final word against Tarxien Rainbows in a contest settled by the finer margins.

In brief

Back issues
11 Edition

The Sliema Wanderers Herald

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Roko Prša

Successful dribbles: 46. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Fernandinho

116 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.

Match

Sliema Wanderers are in real trouble now

Position 10, 5 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Match

Birkirkara take the points off Sliema Wanderers

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Dejan Đurić

“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.

Squad

Marcelo has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Sliema Wanderers will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

5 Edition

The Sliema Wanderers Herald

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

André Seruca damages knee ligaments — 37 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 37 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Roko Prša

Successful dribbles: 27. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Sliema Wanderers

4 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Market

One of our own: Philip Borg joins the Sliema Wanderers first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Philip Borg is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Jonathan Busuttil steps up from the Sliema Wanderers academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jonathan Busuttil has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Ian Sammut steps up from the Sliema Wanderers academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ian Sammut has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Karl Ellul steps up from the Sliema Wanderers academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Karl Ellul has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Match

A bad afternoon for Sliema Wanderers against Valletta

0‑1 to Valletta, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Dejan Đurić

“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