A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Luftëtari will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
“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 The request is on a desk at Luftëtari, and it is not being withdrawn.
Hamit Kallmeti 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.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Luftëtari, and both men came out saying it was fine.
3 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Luftëtari could ask drops and the wages Skander Tahiri can ask rise.
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Luftëtari. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
In brief
SquadThe training reports on Spasian Nasto are not good
38 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Luftëtari lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Luftëtari can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Luftëtari this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Minute 88, against Kukësi, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Eljon Kasa after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Nzube Chukwurah 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.
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Luftëtari can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Luftëtari training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hamit Kallmeti 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.
Half the programme played, position 11, 7 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
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.
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Eljon Kasa after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
In brief
SquadRamiz Ndoj is the weekend's best young player
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Freeman Pius has his answer from Luftëtari; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Kastrioti Krujë next, and one man in the Luftëtari dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Freeman Pius trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
SquadQuestions about Astjon Sulce on the training pitch
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 27 arrived, 22 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
An order from above at Luftëtari: somebody has to go
Balance sheets do not care about form or about who the manager was planning to build around. The board have decided a sale is required, and the only question left is which name ends up carrying it.
Nzube Chukwurah 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.
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.
22 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.
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Luftëtari will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.