The Floriana Chronicle
Squad5 Oct 2026
16 days out for Reece Cutajar 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.
Market5 Oct 2026
Julani Archibald puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at Floriana, and it is not being withdrawn.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 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Floriana
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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Floriana find a way past Gzira United
Gzira United made Floriana work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Floriana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Kauan was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
145% of the income goes out in wages at Floriana
Every club in football 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 somebody has tried it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Robert Murić reaches 50 goals
50 goals for the club, every one of them filed away in the memory of a supporter somewhere.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
One of those days for Robert Murić
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.35, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout5 Oct 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.” Luca Dimech, on a 3‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Paul Mbong
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Pablo Picón
- Market The Robert Murić question follows Floriana around