Valletta signed twenty year old defender Mattias Ellul.

A product of St. Andrews, Ellul spent one year at Santa Lucia in season 2023/24, moving to Hamrun Spartans last summer

The Citizens, who have confirmed Thane Micallef as their coach, had earlier signed goalkeeper Adilson Maringá, Yannick Yankam, Shaft Brewer Jr and Emmanuel Mbende and agreed new deals with goalkeeper Timmy Aquilina, Zachary Cassar and Andrea Zammit but James Scicluna, Peter Xuereb, Ayrton Attard, Neil Tabone, Christian Gauci, Enoch Mushagalusa, Enzo Ruiz, Aidan Friggieri and Jefferson Ferreira were not retained.