Ergi Deda

Goalkeeper - Pogradeci
3 Jul 2029
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146 Edition

The Pogradeci Sentinel

14 May 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad14 May 2029

Albers Keko 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 Pogradeci this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom14 May 2029

Wages swallow 100% of the Pogradeci income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

Squad14 May 2029

Thodoris Faitakis 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.

The dugout14 May 2029

When it matters, Henri Zuna plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout14 May 2029

Irgi Kasalla asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout14 May 2029

A promise honoured for Ergi Deda

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Pogradeci told Ergi Deda something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Market14 May 2029

José Rafael Reyes runs his contract down

3 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Pogradeci money.

Market14 May 2029

The Chinedu Chukwu talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Pogradeci know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Market14 May 2029

Irgi Kasalla placed on the list

Pogradeci have made Irgi Kasalla available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief

Back issues
115 Edition

The Pogradeci Sentinel

9 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

The dugout9 Oct 2028

Jorgo Qeleshi keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Pogradeci may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market9 Oct 2028

Ergi Deda asks to leave Pogradeci

“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.

Squad9 Oct 2028

Words exchanged at Pogradeci

Aldo Bushi 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.

Squad9 Oct 2028

David Marku 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.

Player ratings9 Oct 2028

Nobody could get near José Rafael Reyes

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout9 Oct 2028

Albers Keko 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.

Match7 Oct 2028

Apolonia Fier take the points off Pogradeci

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Boardroom9 Oct 2028

Pogradeci cannot sign anybody

The embargo bars a fee being paid for a player, whatever the manager thinks the squad needs. Every rumour printed about this club between now and its lifting is a rumour about a deal that cannot happen.

Boardroom9 Oct 2028

Pogradeci are $6.7M in the red

The borrowing is past what the bank agreed, which is the line where a debt stops being how football is financed and starts being a problem. Every phone-in in this town will quote the figure for the next five years.

In brief

58 Edition

The Pogradeci Sentinel

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad6 Sep 2027

The knee: Archange Bintsouka out for 30 days

30 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Pogradeci lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market6 Sep 2027

Ergi Goga 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 Pogradeci, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom6 Sep 2027

Deadline passes with 7 signed and 5 gone

That is the business done at Pogradeci until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Boardroom6 Sep 2027

The Pogradeci board want somebody sold

The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Benito Çulli 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 Pogradeci this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets6 Sep 2027

Pogradeci rebuffed over Spartak Ajazi

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Tirana have kept their man, and Pogradeci go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Words at Pogradeci training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Erblin Koka 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.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Ogar Sebastine is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Ogar Sebastine has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

Boardroom6 Sep 2027

Wages eat 91% of everything Pogradeci earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

In brief

  • The dugout Ogar Sebastine is still being punished for one mistake
  • The dugout Ergi Goga knocks on the manager’s door
  • The dugout Ergi Deda gets it from the manager