Denis Gurishta

Left Midfielder - Flamurtari
25 Dec 2028
Monday
Process

Marked for Denis Gurishta

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The Flamurtari Chronicle

18 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Christ Evo Ememe runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 41. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

112 days out for Eric Veiga after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Flamurtari will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Jacques Mbé asks to leave Flamurtari

“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.

Match

The run at home goes on for Flamurtari

11 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Squad

A falling-out at Flamurtari

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

The dugout

Jacques Mbé has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Flamurtari will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout

Ermal Pjeshka on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Ermal Pjeshka after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

Match

No goals between Flamurtari and Burreli

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

The dugout

Denis Gurishta 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.

In brief

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From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Hetem Lushaj 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 The request is on a desk at Flamurtari, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

Christ Evo Ememe was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 29. 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.

Market

Flamurtari say no — this time

The offer from Vora for Christ Evo Ememe was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

6 saves: Igor Aleksovski was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Boardroom

A new deal for Ermal Pjeshka

The board have signed the man in the dugout to a longer contract, which says more than any statement of support. Stability is easy to promise and costly to keep.

Squad

A falling-out at Flamurtari

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

Boardroom

5 academy graduates step up at Flamurtari

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Transfer targets

Burreli tell Flamurtari: Elias Aarflot 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.

Market

Flamurtari promote Denis Gurishta from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Denis Gurishta has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief