Lorent Tolaj

Striker - Plymouth Argyle
29 Sep 2026
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Lorent Tolaj

5 Edition

The Plymouth Argyle Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Zak Baker asks to leave Plymouth Argyle

“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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Caleb Watts

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Plymouth Argyle

Joe Ralls was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Lorent Tolaj 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Conor Hazard

“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.

Squad

5 new faces, and Plymouth Argyle are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Plymouth Argyle Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at Plymouth Argyle

Joe Ralls was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Words at Plymouth Argyle training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michael Baidoo 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Lorent Tolaj

“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.

Player ratings

Caleb Watts runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Boardroom

Plymouth Argyle turn down the training-ground plan

It is the quietest way a club tells you what its ambitions are. The money was asked for, the money was refused, and the people who work there every day now know exactly where they stand.

Match

Plymouth Argyle draw a blank against Lincoln City

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Lincoln City defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

In brief

1 Edition

The Plymouth Argyle Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Joe Ralls stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Joe Ralls and Plymouth Argyle agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Plymouth Argyle

Lorent Tolaj was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market

Eyes on Ayman Benarous again

The phone has started ringing about Ayman Benarous again, and this time the name on the line is Barrow AFC. Plymouth Argyle are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Michael Baidoo 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.

Squad

Michael Baidoo 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.

Market

No place for Joe Edwards in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Joe Edwards has his answer from Plymouth Argyle; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

In brief