Marked for Lorenc Trashi
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Uneasy
Squad28 Dec 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Flamurtari will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market28 Dec 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad28 Dec 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 Flamurtari this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Uneasy
Match21 Dec 2026
14 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market21 Dec 2026
“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 The request is on a desk at Flamurtari, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Lorenc Trashi 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.
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Uneasy
Market7 Dec 2026
“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 The request is on a desk at Flamurtari, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Flamurtari may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Jacques Mbé 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.
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Uneasy
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
A brace, and Christ Evo Ememe takes the afternoon — 8.18
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Christ Evo Ememe provided it, and the 8.18 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Alessandro Bolzan, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.96
A mark of 7.96 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market16 Nov 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Flamurtari can pretend not to have heard.
Match14 Nov 2026
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 9 matches without defeat is a foundation Flamurtari did not have in the autumn.
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 Flamurtari this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match14 Nov 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Christ Evo Ememe. 3‑1 against Bylis, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The terraces16 Nov 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Alessandro Bolzan has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match14 Nov 2026
Bylis blown away early
There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. Bylis tried to reorganise, Flamurtari did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Ninety minutes of Redi Kasa at his very best
Marked 8.40. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Flamurtari.
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Uneasy
Market9 Nov 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Flamurtari can pretend not to have heard.
Match7 Nov 2026
7 matches without a win for Flamurtari
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Flamurtari are no longer polite ones.
Match7 Nov 2026
7 matches without a goal for Flamurtari
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 7 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Match7 Nov 2026
Still nobody has beaten Flamurtari
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Cristian Núñez 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Todor Todoroski
“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 ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. 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
Words at Flamurtari training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hamza Ramani 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Dinamo City defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Uneasy
Match26 Oct 2026
Every point is an argument now for Flamurtari
Position 7 and 7 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Redi Kasa runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market26 Oct 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match24 Oct 2026
5 matches without a win for Flamurtari
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Flamurtari are no longer polite ones.
Match24 Oct 2026
5 matches without a goal for Flamurtari
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 5 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Jacques Mbé 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Flamurtari do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Lorenc Trashi 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.
Squad26 Oct 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.
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Uneasy
Market19 Oct 2026
Jacques Mbé hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Flamurtari can pretend not to have heard.
Match17 Oct 2026
4 matches without a win for Flamurtari
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Flamurtari are no longer polite ones.
Match17 Oct 2026
4 matches without a goal for Flamurtari
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Jacques Mbé 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 Flamurtari this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Redi Kasa
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Flamurtari training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lorenc Trashi 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Match17 Oct 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Egnatia Rrogozhinë came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Squad19 Oct 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Archange Bintsouka trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Uneasy
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 36. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market5 Oct 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad5 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 Flamurtari this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 156% of everything Flamurtari 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Flamurtari training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lorenc Trashi 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.
Squad5 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.
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Uneasy
Market14 Sep 2026
“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 Flamurtari, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match12 Sep 2026
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Lorenc Trashi 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Partizani Tirana defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
11 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Nobody at Flamurtari is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
Market14 Sep 2026
The market said no: Hamza Ramani stays put
Flamurtari opened the door and nobody walked through it. So Hamza Ramani stays — listed, trained, and available — while both sides mark the days to January on the same calendar.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Redi Kasa is not doing himself any favours
A manager forgives a bad Saturday far more readily than a bad Tuesday, because one of them he can explain and the other one he chose. The reports this week have not been good.
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Crisis
Squad7 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Todor Todoroski
14 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Flamurtari lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Flamurtari can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Jacques Mbé 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 Flamurtari this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match5 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Flamurtari training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lorenc Trashi 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
Squad24 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Todor Todoroski
28 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Flamurtari lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market24 Aug 2026
Tirana come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Flamurtari did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Jacques Mbé 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 Flamurtari this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Flamurtari training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lorenc Trashi 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Denis Pjeshka has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Flamurtari.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Cristian Núñez commits to Flamurtari for another 3 years.
Squad3 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 Flamurtari this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Flamurtari training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lorenc Trashi 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.