Tim Strootman

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Teuta Durrës
3 Aug 2031
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181 Edition

The Teuta Durrës Post

14 Jan 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match14 Jan 2030

The season ends: position 7 for Teuta Durrës

The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 20 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.

Market14 Jan 2030

Dinamo City come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Teuta Durrës did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets14 Jan 2030

Fee done, terms next for Ledio Beqja

Teuta Durrës and Egnatia Rrogozhinë have settled on $430.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Market14 Jan 2030

Tim Strootman asks to leave Teuta Durrës

“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.

Squad14 Jan 2030

Words exchanged at Teuta Durrës

Vagner Gonçalves Nogueira 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.

Transfer targets14 Jan 2030

Door shut on Máté Ecseri

Teuta Durrës asked and Apolonia Fier said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad14 Jan 2030

A row about effort at Teuta Durrës

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

Match12 Jan 2030

A bad afternoon for Teuta Durrës against Bylis

1‑2 to Bylis, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings14 Jan 2030

Klejdi Daci was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.25. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief

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The Teuta Durrës Post

1 Oct 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad1 Oct 2029

Elton Vata damages knee ligaments — 29 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 29 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.

Match26 Sep 2029

Cup progress for Teuta Durrës

A 2‑0 win over Vllaznia Shkodër, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Player ratings1 Oct 2029

Tim Strootman, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.93

A mark of 7.93 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings1 Oct 2029

Edgar Ghevondyan beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad1 Oct 2029

A falling-out at Teuta Durrës

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

Squad1 Oct 2029

Words at Teuta Durrës training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Artan Jazxhi 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.

The terraces1 Oct 2029

The crowd has taken to Edgar Ghevondyan

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match29 Sep 2029

Teuta Durrës refuse to lose to Skënderbeu Korçë

A point taken on 86 minutes is worth exactly one point and considerably more than that to a dressing room. This side does not stop, which is a reputation worth more than the result.

The dugout1 Oct 2029

The manager makes an example of Ondřej Rittenauer

“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