The Lushnja Gazette
Market17 Aug 2026
Vllaznia Shkodër come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Lushnja did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The paperwork begins on Giulio Veliaj
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Lushnja have done the hard part with Forli, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Lushnja
Eric Oguocha 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Lushnja rebuffed over Marjus Kola
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Partizani Tirana have kept their man, and Lushnja go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Onome Onotafe 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Klevi Qefalija is a square peg at Lushnja
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
Market17 Aug 2026
Still no ink between Lushnja and Eric Oguocha
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Lushnja, another week without a signature from Eric Oguocha.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Lushnja
19 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Lushnja try to borrow Robson Luiz
Potenza have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
In brief
- Market Donart Ibraimi joins Lushnja to strengthen the squad
- Market Lushnja add cover with Khalil Taleb
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Erald Hyseni