Henry Prendi

Defensive Midfielder - Bylis
24 Oct 2028
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Henry Prendi

112 Edition

The Bylis Chronicle

18 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Rabiu Abdullahi was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 35. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

Ionuţ Gurău keeps Bylis in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Words at Bylis training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aleksandrs Zjuzins 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.

Match

Pedro Vieira rescues a point for Bylis

It needed Pedro Vieira to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Tirana, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout

No hiding place for Denis Shera

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Denis Shera, and the manager let it.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Bernard Vata was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Bylis dressing room was either.

The dugout

Aleksandrs Zjuzins does not fit this one

Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.

Squad

A first team debut at 16 for Henry Prendi

Off the academy pitches and into a senior shirt, at 16. The parents in the stand will keep the programme, and so will he.

Market

The Pedro Vieira story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Pedro Vieira signs something — a contract at Bylis or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

Back issues
109 Edition

The Bylis Chronicle

28 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Aleksandrs Zjuzins hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Bylis can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

Denis Shera: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Bylis have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Saheed Owolabi is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Bylis is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Match

The wait goes on for Bylis

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match

The goals have deserted Bylis

4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Bylis can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad

Words exchanged at Bylis

Dime Dimov 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.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Bylis

7 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Transfer targets

Tirana tell Bylis: Serxho Prendi is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

Words at Bylis training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aleksandrs Zjuzins 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