From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad15 Mar 2027
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Mosta will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market15 Mar 2027
Mosta say no — this time
The offer from IBV for Diamanka Senghor 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Mosta
Ernest Agyiri and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Words at Mosta training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. João Victor 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.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Samuel Zammit
“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.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Mosta. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Steady
Squad8 Mar 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 89 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market8 Mar 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad8 Mar 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 Mosta this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Words at Mosta training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emmanuel Ugwu 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.
Market8 Mar 2027
The name of Diamanka Senghor keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Mosta say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
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Steady
Squad1 Mar 2027
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Mosta will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Mosta
Ernest Agyiri 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Matthew Bolaños 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.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Akpan Udoh, and the manager let it.
Squad1 Mar 2027
“I will know when it is time. I am not there yet.” Jurgen Pisani is 34, with 22 appearances behind him, and Mosta will have to plan for whichever answer comes.
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Steady
Squad22 Feb 2027
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Mosta will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Mosta may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Mosta
Ernest Agyiri 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.
Loan watch22 Feb 2027
“I watch every Mosta game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Birkirkara runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at Mosta training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. João Victor 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.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
Akpan Udoh asks for a word with the manager
“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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Steady
Squad15 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Jurgen Pisani out for 82 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Mosta will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Mosta
Ernest Agyiri and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words at Mosta training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emmanuel Ugwu 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.
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Steady
Squad8 Feb 2027
89 days out for Jurgen Pisani after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Mosta will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Mosta
Pedro Cacho and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Matthew Bolaños 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Ernest Agyiri makes the team of the month
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Kurt Zammit 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 dugout8 Feb 2027
Willian Salomão asks for a word with the manager
“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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad1 Feb 2027
96 days out for Jurgen Pisani after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Mosta will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Window shuts: 0 in, 2 out at Mosta
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 0 arrived, 2 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Mosta
Ernest Agyiri 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 targets1 Feb 2027
The clock did what Marsaxlokk would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words at Mosta training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. João Victor 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.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Willian Salomão has written the date down.
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Steady
Squad25 Jan 2027
Jurgen Pisani breaks a bone — 103 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 103 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match25 Jan 2027
Mosta finish in position 5
33 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.
Market25 Jan 2027
The bid was some way short and Mosta did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Mosta
Ernest Agyiri 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Mosta
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Emmanuel Ugwu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match23 Jan 2027
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Gabriel Fenech after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Dominic Busuttil, 15, is the weekend’s best young player
Measured against every other kid in the division and first among them. The senior award is where Mosta would like this to lead.
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Steady
Squad18 Jan 2027
Jurgen Pisani breaks a bone — 110 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 110 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market18 Jan 2027
NK Maribor come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Mosta did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
No sign of nerves from Dominic Busuttil at 15 — 8.52
The hardest thing about being 15 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Dominic Busuttil did not need any: 8.52, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Mosta
Ernest Agyiri and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match16 Jan 2027
It finished 3‑1, and it was Diamanka Senghor’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Mosta.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Matthew Bolaños 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.
The terraces18 Jan 2027
He is 15 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 ratings18 Jan 2027
Ernest Agyiri was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.23. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 3‑1, already talking about the next one.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad11 Jan 2027
117 days out for Jurgen Pisani after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Mosta will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A one-man rearguard from Akpan Udoh
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 27. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Up for the corner, and Willian Salomão delivers — 7.23
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Willian Salomão scored, was marked 7.23, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad11 Jan 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 Mosta this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match9 Jan 2027
A 2‑1 win over Zabbar St. Patrick, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Marked 8.14 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad11 Jan 2027
João Victor 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.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Gabriel Fenech on a 2‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Uneasy
Squad4 Jan 2027
124 days out for Jurgen Pisani after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Mosta will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 27. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Mosta may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match2 Jan 2027
The wait goes on for Mosta
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Mosta
Ernest Agyiri 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
Add another name to the list: Valletta have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Anse Ngoubi. The answer from Mosta has not changed — yet.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Mosta
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Emmanuel Ugwu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market4 Jan 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Mosta will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Match2 Jan 2027
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
In brief
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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The dugout
Akpan Udoh knocks on the manager's door
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The dugout
Somebody else is better right now than Samuel Mallia
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Jurgen Pisani out for 131 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Mosta will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad28 Dec 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Mosta
Ernest Agyiri 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Matthew Bolaños 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.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages swallow 129% of the Mosta income
Every club 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 it has been tried.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Willian Salomão
“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.
Match26 Dec 2026
It needed Ernest Agyiri to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Hibernians, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Gabriel Fenech was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Mosta dressing room was either.
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Crisis
Squad21 Dec 2026
Jurgen Pisani 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.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
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.
Market21 Dec 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Chukwuemeka Junior Eke will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Mosta the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Pedro Cacho 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 Mosta this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match19 Dec 2026
Sliema Wanderers left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Akpan Udoh, and the manager let it.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Gabriel Fenech to a room that had heard them before.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Mosta training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. João Victor 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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
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Steady
Squad14 Dec 2026
148 days out for Jurgen Pisani after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Mosta will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A falling-out at Mosta
Matthew Bolaños and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Mosta training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Emmanuel Ugwu 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.
Match12 Dec 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout14 Dec 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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Gabriel Fenech after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Looking ahead14 Dec 2026
Sliema Wanderers next, and one man in the Mosta dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Willian Salomão trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Upbeat
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 46. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad7 Dec 2026
155 days out for Jurgen Pisani after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Mosta will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Mosta
Ernest Agyiri 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Mosta training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matthew Bolaños 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.
Match5 Dec 2026
It finished 1‑0, and it was Diamanka Senghor’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Mosta.
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Marked 7.64. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Diamanka Senghor
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Diamanka Senghor has come out of that comparison in the side, and Mosta have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.
Looking ahead7 Dec 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Birkirkara in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Steady
Squad30 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Jayden Farrugia out for 38 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Mosta will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Mosta may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Mosta
Ernest Agyiri 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Wages eat 125% of everything Mosta earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
The dugout30 Nov 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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Mosta
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and João Victor was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 45 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market23 Nov 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Mosta is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match21 Nov 2026
Still nobody has beaten Mosta
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Mosta
Ernest Agyiri and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Mosta
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Emmanuel Ugwu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Marked 7.82. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Match21 Nov 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Gabriel Fenech after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
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Upbeat
Squad16 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Jayden Farrugia out for 52 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Mosta will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad16 Nov 2026
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad16 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Mosta this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match14 Nov 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Mosta and Naxxar Lions, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Match14 Nov 2026
A 4‑2 win over Naxxar Lions, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of Diamanka Senghor at his very best
Marked 9.66. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Mosta.
Match14 Nov 2026
6 unbeaten for Mosta
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Mosta did not have in the autumn.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Mosta
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Matthew Bolaños was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
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Player ratings
Giancarlo was on a different afternoon to everybody else
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The dugout
Akpan Udoh gets it from the manager
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The dugout
Gabriel Fenech: “That is the standard”
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
59 days out for Jayden Farrugia after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Mosta will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Mosta may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Mosta
Ernest Agyiri 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.
Match9 Nov 2026
Halfway: Mosta sit in position 6
16 points at the turn. The first half of a season is a promise; the second is a bill, and the town is about to find out which of the two this one was.
Match7 Nov 2026
Level with 89 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Mosta had all but put away. Valletta will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
Squad9 Nov 2026
João Victor 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
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Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Mosta will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Mosta
Pedro Cacho 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.
Match31 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Giancarlo. 2‑0 against Tarxien Rainbows, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
125% of the income goes out in wages at Mosta
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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.84 on the card, and the Mosta support went home talking about one name.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Léo Fernandes 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Matthew Bolaños named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Matthew Bolaños is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Gabriel Fenech on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Oct 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 97 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.47 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market26 Oct 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Mosta they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Akpan Udoh 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 Mosta this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Matthew Bolaños 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Diamanka Senghor’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Mosta.
Match24 Oct 2026
It had gone 5 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
Squad26 Oct 2026
8 new faces, and Mosta are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Mosta will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match17 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Mosta's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Mosta has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad19 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Mosta this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Gabriel Fenech chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Anse Ngoubi 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Point won or two lost for Mosta?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Floriana? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Mosta will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match10 Oct 2026
4 matches without a win for Mosta
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Mosta are no longer polite ones.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Mosta
Ernest Agyiri 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
16 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Match10 Oct 2026
Mosta are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
The dugout12 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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Marked 8.36 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match10 Oct 2026
No time for Hibernians to settle
The goal that put Hibernians ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Mosta equalised, 1 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.
Match10 Oct 2026
A 2‑2 draw with Hibernians leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Crisis
Match30 Sep 2026
The cup run ends for Mosta
0‑2 against Marsaxlokk, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Mosta
Ernest Agyiri 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Matthew Bolaños 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 162% of everything Mosta earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Willian Salomão, and the manager let it.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
No place in the plan for Simon Zibo
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
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Steady
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
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.
Market28 Sep 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Chukwuemeka Junior Eke will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Mosta the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Mosta
Ernest Agyiri and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match26 Sep 2026
0‑2 to Birkirkara, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Simon Zibo 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
8 new faces, and Mosta are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Gabriel Fenech after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
João Victor 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Samuel Zammit and Mosta agree another 3 years.
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Upbeat
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.04, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Mosta this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match19 Sep 2026
Marsaxlokk made Mosta work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words at Mosta training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Léo Fernandes 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.
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.” Gabriel Fenech, on a 2‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
The dugout21 Sep 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.
Looking ahead21 Sep 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Simon Zibo’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Mosta needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Every signing waits for it and every press conference asks about it until it comes. It has come, Mosta have their man off the mark, and the second one is always easier.
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Steady
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Market14 Sep 2026
The bid was some way short and Mosta did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Mosta
Ernest Agyiri 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Matthew Bolaños 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Samuel Zammit has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market14 Sep 2026
One of our own: Ivan Dimech joins the Mosta first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ivan Dimech is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market14 Sep 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Kenneth Camilleri 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Three points for Mosta, 1‑0 the final word against Gzira United in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad14 Sep 2026
28 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
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Crisis
Market7 Sep 2026
Mosta say no — this time
The offer from Gzira United for Charles Yemi Oderinde 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 9 in, 2 out at Mosta
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 9 arrived, 2 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Mosta
Matthew Bolaños 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Hamrun Spartans left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Akpan Udoh
“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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Gabriel Fenech after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Mosta
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and João Victor was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Simon Zibo is still paying for one afternoon at Mosta
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
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Uneasy
Match29 Aug 2026
Diamanka Senghor had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Naxxar Lions were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market31 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Mosta did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market31 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Chukwuemeka Junior Eke will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Mosta the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Mosta
Ernest Agyiri and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad31 Aug 2026
100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
8 new faces, and Mosta are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Match29 Aug 2026
2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Léo Fernandes 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.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Boardroom
Mosta say no to the training-ground money
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Looking ahead
Thiago Espíndola faces his old club
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad24 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Mosta this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Mosta
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Matthew Bolaños was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market24 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Mosta have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Dominic Busuttil and Mosta agree another 3 years.
The dugout24 Aug 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.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
Samuel Mallia knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Samuel Mallia trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
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Squad
Questions about Giancarlo on the training pitch
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Looking ahead
Looking ahead: the trip to Naxxar Lions
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Mosta
Ernest Agyiri 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.
Market17 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
João Victor 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Mosta people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Mosta
Ernest Agyiri and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Dominic 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Samuel Mallia joins the Mosta first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Samuel Mallia is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jake Cachia has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Diamanka Senghor and Mosta agree another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Mosta
Ernest Agyiri 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Matthew Bolaños 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.
Market3 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months and counting on Giancarlo
Still no offer on the table, and Giancarlo’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
7 new faces, and Mosta are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.