The Tirana Sentinel
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
Tirana spell it out for Tomas Mulaj
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Tomas Mulaj has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Market2 Aug 2027
Basilio Basilio 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 The request is on a desk at Tirana, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
The Tirana board call everybody in
Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.
Market2 Aug 2027
Only the photograph left for Donat Mehmeti
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Donat Mehmeti will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Tirana the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Tirana
Basilio Basilio 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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Anton Krešić 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.
Squad2 Aug 2027
An unwelcome headline for Henri Sinani
He will be fined, he will apologise, and he will play on Saturday. The order of those three tells you everything about what a football club actually values.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Training ground row involving Henri Sinani
Tempers went at Tirana this week. Nothing a hard session and a quiet word cannot repair, though the story got out all the same.
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
Tirana pull $112.3K back off the table
The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.
In brief
- Market The Visar Bekaj story refuses to die
- Boardroom Tirana answer back