Jefferson Jefferson

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31 Dec 2028
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Marked for Jefferson Jefferson

125 Edition

The Egnatia Rrogozhinë Courier

18 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Egnatia Rrogozhinë refuse to drop out of the race

Position 1, 31 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Squad

Anio Poçi keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Egnatia Rrogozhinë may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Jefferson Jefferson has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Egnatia Rrogozhinë they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

In brief

Back issues
121 Edition

The Egnatia Rrogozhinë Courier

20 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Egnatia Rrogozhinë up to position 1

28 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Match

Egnatia Rrogozhinë cannot stop winning

4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Market

Only the photograph left for Jefferson Jefferson

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jefferson Jefferson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Egnatia Rrogozhinë the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Fernando Medeiros 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 Egnatia Rrogozhinë this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Egnatia Rrogozhinë training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Guillem Jaime 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Kastriot Selmani

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Egnatia Rrogozhinë keep winning on the road

3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.

Match

Egnatia Rrogozhinë find a way past Bylis

Bylis made Egnatia Rrogozhinë work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Afonso Rodrigues at his very best

Marked 8.26. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Egnatia Rrogozhinë.

In brief

117 Edition

The Egnatia Rrogozhinë Courier

23 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Alessandro Albanese out for 35 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Egnatia Rrogozhinë will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

Afonso Rodrigues runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Egnatia Rrogozhinë are in among the leaders

Position 2 and 16 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Market

Jefferson Jefferson is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Egnatia Rrogozhinë is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Fernando Medeiros 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 Egnatia Rrogozhinë this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Egnatia Rrogozhinë training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Guillem Jaime 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.

In brief

113 Edition

The Egnatia Rrogozhinë Courier

25 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Afonso Rodrigues

Successful dribbles: 46. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A fracture rules Alessandro Albanese out for 65 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Egnatia Rrogozhinë will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings

Both of them Ildi Gruda's — 8.46

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.46, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match

Egnatia Rrogozhinë up to position 3

8 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Market

Jefferson Jefferson is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Egnatia Rrogozhinë is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Fernando Medeiros 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 Egnatia Rrogozhinë this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Egnatia Rrogozhinë training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Guillem Jaime 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.

Match

Egnatia Rrogozhinë find a way past Dinamo City

Dinamo City made Egnatia Rrogozhinë work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Abdurraman Fangaj 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.

In brief

  • The terraces The press have found their man in Ildi Gruda
  • The terraces The stand has a song for Ildi Gruda
109 Edition

The Egnatia Rrogozhinë Courier

28 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Albano Aleksi

34 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Egnatia Rrogozhinë lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Alessandro Albanese breaks a bone — 93 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 93 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Daniel Adjessa keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Egnatia Rrogozhinë may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market

Jefferson Jefferson has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Egnatia Rrogozhinë they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Afonso Rodrigues

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Egnatia Rrogozhinë turn down Flamurtari for Mohammed Yahaya

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Tempers go at Egnatia Rrogozhinë

Fernando Medeiros 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.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Egnatia Rrogozhinë

2 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Boardroom

Egnatia Rrogozhinë are making the ground bigger

Work is signed off on a capacity of 2787. It is the sort of decision a club is judged on twenty years later, by people who were not there when it was taken.

In brief

105 Edition

The Egnatia Rrogozhinë Courier

31 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Albano Aleksi damages knee ligaments — 63 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 63 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

Egnatia Rrogozhinë refuse to drop out of the race

Position 1, 26 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Market

Egnatia Rrogozhinë turn down Dinamo City for Anio Poçi

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Daniel Adjessa puts it in writing

“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 Egnatia Rrogozhinë, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Jefferson Jefferson is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Egnatia Rrogozhinë is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Tempers go at Egnatia Rrogozhinë

Fernando Medeiros 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.

In brief

101 Edition

The Egnatia Rrogozhinë Courier

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Albano Aleksi damages knee ligaments — 91 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 91 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

Egnatia Rrogozhinë up to position 1

26 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Market

Jefferson Jefferson has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Egnatia Rrogozhinë they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Tempers go at Egnatia Rrogozhinë

Fernando Medeiros 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.

Squad

Guillem Jaime 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.

Squad

Oliver Jürgens stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Oliver Jürgens and Egnatia Rrogozhinë agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief

97 Edition

The Egnatia Rrogozhinë Courier

5 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Albano Aleksi

120 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Egnatia Rrogozhinë lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Egnatia Rrogozhinë up to position 1

26 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Market

Mario Dajsinani puts it in writing

“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 Egnatia Rrogozhinë, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Only the photograph left for Jefferson Jefferson

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jefferson Jefferson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Egnatia Rrogozhinë the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at Egnatia Rrogozhinë

Fernando Medeiros 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.

Squad

Guillem Jaime 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

94 Edition

The Egnatia Rrogozhinë Courier

15 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Only the photograph left for Anio Poçi

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Anio Poçi will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Egnatia Rrogozhinë the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Fernando Medeiros 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 Egnatia Rrogozhinë this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Egnatia Rrogozhinë training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Guillem Jaime 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.

In brief

93 Edition

The Egnatia Rrogozhinë Courier

8 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Egnatia Rrogozhinë are in among the leaders

Position 1 and 26 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Market

Oscar Page 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 Egnatia Rrogozhinë can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Only the photograph left for Jefferson Jefferson

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jefferson Jefferson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Egnatia Rrogozhinë the goodbyes have quietly begun.

In brief

89 Edition

The Egnatia Rrogozhinë Courier

10 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Egnatia Rrogozhinë are in among the leaders

Position 1 and 26 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Market

Jefferson Jefferson is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Egnatia Rrogozhinë is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Tempers go at Egnatia Rrogozhinë

Fernando Medeiros 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.

In brief

87 Edition

The Egnatia Rrogozhinë Courier

27 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Only the photograph left for Daniel Adjessa

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Daniel Adjessa will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Egnatia Rrogozhinë the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at Egnatia Rrogozhinë

Fernando Medeiros 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.

Squad

Guillem Jaime 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

86 Edition

The Egnatia Rrogozhinë Courier

20 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Anio Poçi has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Egnatia Rrogozhinë they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Fernando Medeiros 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 Egnatia Rrogozhinë this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Egnatia Rrogozhinë training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Guillem Jaime 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.

In brief

85 Edition

The Egnatia Rrogozhinë Courier

13 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Egnatia Rrogozhinë are in among the leaders

Position 1 and 26 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Market

Only the photograph left for Jefferson Jefferson

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jefferson Jefferson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Egnatia Rrogozhinë the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at Egnatia Rrogozhinë

Fernando Medeiros 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.

In brief

81 Edition

The Egnatia Rrogozhinë Courier

14 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Egnatia Rrogozhinë refuse to drop out of the race

Position 1, 26 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Market

Only the photograph left for Jefferson Jefferson

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jefferson Jefferson will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Egnatia Rrogozhinë the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at Egnatia Rrogozhinë

Fernando Medeiros 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.

In brief

80 Edition

The Egnatia Rrogozhinë Courier

7 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Fernando Medeiros 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 Egnatia Rrogozhinë this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Egnatia Rrogozhinë training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Guillem Jaime 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.

Market

Teuta Durrës are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Egnatia Rrogozhinë will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

In brief

79 Edition

The Egnatia Rrogozhinë Courier

31 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Teuta Durrës come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Egnatia Rrogozhinë did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Oscar Page puts it in writing

“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 Egnatia Rrogozhinë, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Oliver Jürgens keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Egnatia Rrogozhinë may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Tempers go at Egnatia Rrogozhinë

Fernando Medeiros 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.

Market

Eyes on Anio Poçi again

The phone has started ringing about Anio Poçi again, and this time the name on the line is Teuta Durrës. Egnatia Rrogozhinë are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Guillem Jaime 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

73 Edition

The Egnatia Rrogozhinë Courier

20 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Egnatia Rrogozhinë are in among the leaders

Position 1 and 26 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Squad

Jefferson Jefferson: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Egnatia Rrogozhinë have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Fernando Medeiros 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 Egnatia Rrogozhinë this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

72 Edition

The Egnatia Rrogozhinë Courier

13 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Egnatia Rrogozhinë

Fernando Medeiros 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.

Squad

Guillem Jaime 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Abdurraman Fangaj

“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.

In brief

36 Edition

The Egnatia Rrogozhinë Courier

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Fernando Medeiros 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 Egnatia Rrogozhinë this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Egnatia Rrogozhinë training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Guillem Jaime 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.

Squad

Albano Aleksi loses the armband

The captaincy has been taken off Albano Aleksi. Egnatia Rrogozhinë will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.

In brief