The words a physio says slowly. 19 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.
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Vllaznia Shkodër has to find a result from somewhere.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vllaznia Shkodër this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The words a physio says slowly. 26 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.
Bekim Balaj 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.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Kevin Dodaj and Vllaznia Shkodër agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
It needed Sherif Kallaku to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Egnatia Rrogozhinë, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Vllaznia Shkodër has been clear about where Edon Murataj stands, which is more than many ever get.
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The words a physio says slowly. 47 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.
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
The words a physio says slowly. 68 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.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Sokol Uldedaj will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Vllaznia Shkodër the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Bekim Balaj 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.
Bekim Balaj 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.
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Cristian Dros, and the manager let it.
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Gledjan Pusi 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vllaznia Shkodër this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Alexandr Podbeltsev trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Vllaznia Shkodër have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vllaznia Shkodër this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Alexandr Podbeltsev will call it something else in private.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gledjan Pusi 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.
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Tirana defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Vllaznia Shkodër this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.