Yusuf Mannase

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Tirana
27 Nov 2026
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Marked for Yusuf Mannase

14 Edition

The Tirana Sentinel

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad2 Nov 2026

Words exchanged at Tirana

Freddy Álvarez 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.

Match31 Oct 2026

Rafa Freitas the difference as Tirana beat Partizani Tirana

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Rafa Freitas. 1‑0 against Partizani Tirana, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Looking ahead2 Nov 2026

Top-of-the-table clash for Tirana

Flamurtari next, and the two sides the division is watching meet each other. Whoever wins will be told nothing is decided in the same breath as being congratulated.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Yusuf Mannase wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Tirana can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Player ratings2 Nov 2026

The afternoon belonged to Rafa Freitas

A mark of 7.90, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Market2 Nov 2026

A long bet from Tirana on Brendi Malaj

He is 20, and nobody at Tirana signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

The dugout2 Nov 2026

Adnard Doku has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Adnard Doku on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Tirana have started building around Patrik Myslovič

He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Words at Tirana training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mateo Deda 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

Back issues
7 Edition

The Tirana Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match12 Sep 2026

Tirana run riot against AF Elbasani

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Both of them Etienne Tare's — 8.28

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.28, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

The terraces14 Sep 2026

One of their own: Etienne Tare

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Luciano Vera in the eights

A performance of 8.24 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad14 Sep 2026

A row about effort at Tirana

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luciano Vera was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

A masterclass from Freddy Álvarez

Marked 8.06 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Words exchanged at Tirana

Yusuf Mannase 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.

Squad14 Sep 2026

8 new faces, and Tirana are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout14 Sep 2026

A satisfied Adnard Doku

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 3‑0, Adnard Doku could afford to be generous.

In brief

6 Edition

The Tirana Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Tirana close the window on a squad of their own making

1 in and 7 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A move Yusuf Mannase would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Yusuf Mannase is living that version at Tirana, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Words exchanged at Tirana

Freddy Álvarez 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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A row about effort at Tirana

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Luciano Vera was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A muscle injury and 15 days out for Erando Karabeci

The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Tirana will quote 15 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Looking ahead7 Sep 2026

Klajdi Kuka goes back to face AF Elbasani

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Klajdi Kuka’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Tirana needing him to play as if none of it matters.

In brief