The Tirana Sentinel
Market11 Sep 2028
Valery Polyakin asks to leave Tirana
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Player ratings11 Sep 2028
Nobody could get near Redon Xhixha
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Joseph Colley 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 Tirana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Mathieu Rivière gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Mathieu Rivière has just signed for Tirana, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Words at Tirana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Freddy Álvarez 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.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Cavid Abdullayev wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Tirana know it.
In brief
- Market Tirana buy the years ahead of Mathieu Rivière
- Match Tirana draw a blank against Bylis
- Market Edison Kola leaves for nothing
- Player ratings Ardit Krymi spends the afternoon fouling