Marsaxlokk U20

15 Aug 2026
Saturday
Process
2 Edition

The Marsaxlokk Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Matty James

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Marsaxlokk have done the hard part with Wrexham, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

Tempers go at Marsaxlokk

Domantas Šimkus 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 targets

Marsaxlokk rebuffed over Hazeem Bakre

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Middlesbrough have kept their man, and Marsaxlokk go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

One of our own: George Fenech joins the Marsaxlokk first team

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

Market

Philip Mangion steps up from the Marsaxlokk academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Philip Mangion 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

Carlo Brincat steps up from the Marsaxlokk academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Carlo Brincat 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

One of our own: James Cutajar joins the Marsaxlokk first team

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

Transfer targets

A loan move for Cian Dillon is in the works

Marsaxlokk have made the call to Queens Park Rangers. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Squad

Rasmus Lindén still has not settled

A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Marsaxlokk would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.

In brief

Back issues
1 Edition

The Marsaxlokk Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Christoffer Mafoumbi pulls a muscle — 16 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 16 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Squad

Domantas Šimkus signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Domantas Šimkus and Marsaxlokk agree another 3 years.

Squad

A row about effort at Marsaxlokk

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Domantas Šimkus was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief