Valletta secured the services of Portuguese twenty five year old central defender Goncalo Braganca de Oliveira Vieira.

Goncalo Vieira started his career at Odivelas FC but then moved to Sporting Lisbon from where he was loaned to CDC Montalegre and CF Santa Iria and eventually transferred to SU Sintrense. Vieira then moved to Bulgaria to join Botev Vratsa and later played for FK Banga Gargzdai in Lithuania.

The Citizens had earlier signed goalkeeper Alessandro Guarnone and Milan Jezdimirovic.