Aurel Pera

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Bylis
3 Jan 2030
Thursday
Process

Marked for Aurel Pera

176 Edition

The Bylis Chronicle

10 Dec 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Supporters organise against the Bylis board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Market

Odisea Gjati 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 The request is on a desk at Bylis, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Fabjan Përndreca signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Fabjan Përndreca and Bylis agree another 4 years.

Squad

A falling-out at Bylis

Dime Dimov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Bylis

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

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Manuel Hajrullaj

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

  • The dugout Aurel Pera has become a man the manager trusts
  • Boardroom The Bylis academy earns its keep
  • Squad Dionis Pera is not doing himself any favours
  • The dugout The manager comes out for Dime Dimov
Back issues
172 Edition

The Bylis Chronicle

12 Nov 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

The mood at Bylis has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad

Gjorgi Stoilov damages knee ligaments — 24 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 24 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

A falling-out at Bylis

Dime Dimov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Roberts Ozols 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.

Looking ahead

A six-pointer for Bylis

Egnatia Rrogozhinë next, and both sides can do the sum. Win and the table looks different; lose and it looks the way everybody has been fearing.

The dugout

Paolo Kampula gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout

Sherif Beqaj: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

Match

No goals between Bylis and Flamurtari

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Flamurtari will be the happier side with the point.

The dugout

The form table has caught Aurel Pera

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

In brief