Bernard Berisha 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.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Words at Dinamo City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dejvi Bregu 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.
9 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
A brace, and Saliou Guindo takes the afternoon — 9.27
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Saliou Guindo provided it, and the 9.27 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dinamo City can pretend not to have heard.
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.97 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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.
20 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Bernard Berisha 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.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Malomo Taofeeq and Dinamo City agree another 4 years.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Words at Dinamo City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dejvi Bregu 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.
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Dinamo City can tell you which week it ends in.
19 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Dinamo City will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Lorenco Vila 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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Dejvi Bregu 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.
2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Eridon Qardaku obliged against Teuta Durrës. 1‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Dinamo City.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dinamo City can pretend not to have heard.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Dinamo City have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Bernard Berisha and Dinamo City agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Dejvi Bregu 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.
16 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
“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 Dinamo City, and it is not being withdrawn.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Dejvi Bregu 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.
15 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Dinamo City have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Elio Nderjaku is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Bernard Berisha 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.
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Malomo Taofeeq is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Flamurtari moved on, Edmir Sali reports back to Dinamo City, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Dejvi Bregu has improved at 31, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Words at Dinamo City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Malomo Taofeeq 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.
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Dinamo City has been clear about where Ysni Ismaili stands, which is more than many ever get.
13 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Bernard Berisha 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.
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Klevi Qefalija is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Ledio Beqja has improved at 26, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Words at Dinamo City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dejvi Bregu 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.
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Dinamo City has been clear about where Faton Neziri stands, which is more than many ever get.
12 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
“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 Dinamo City, and it is not being withdrawn.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
At 30 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Dejvi Bregu 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.
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Elio Nderjaku is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Naser Aliji has improved at 33, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
In brief
SquadWords at Dinamo City training over how hard people work
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Malomo Taofeeq is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Lorenco Vila 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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Dejvi Bregu has improved at 31, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
“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 Dinamo City, and it is not being withdrawn.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Edmir Sali will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dinamo City the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Bernard Berisha 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.
“The easiest signature of my career.” Faton Neziri and Dinamo City agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Words at Dinamo City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dejvi Bregu 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.
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Isti Shahini 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.
Bernard Berisha 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
André Teixeira has improved at 33, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Words at Dinamo City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dejvi Bregu 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.
Position 6 and 12 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Dejvi Bregu 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.
17 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Dinamo City lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dinamo City is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Bernard Berisha 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.
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.
24 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Dinamo City lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Lorenco Vila 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Dejvi Bregu 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Ysni Ismaili has improved at 25, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.
31 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Dinamo City lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Elio Nderjaku is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dinamo City they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Words at Dinamo City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dejvi Bregu 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.
38 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Dinamo City lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Position 6 and 12 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
45 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Dinamo City lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The offer from Bylis for Mustapha Koma 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.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Dinamo City have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
52 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Dinamo City lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
The words a physio says slowly. 60 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.
Bernard Berisha 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.
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 words a physio says slowly. 67 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 May 2027
Dejvi Bregu 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.
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Dinamo City, and 3 appearances in 41 say he has earned the hearing.
75 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Dinamo City lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dinamo City they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
SquadWords at Dinamo City training over how hard people work
The words a physio says slowly. 83 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 May 2027
Words at Dinamo City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Malomo Taofeeq 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 words a physio says slowly. 90 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.
Bernard Berisha 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.
Squad3 May 2027
Words at Dinamo City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dejvi Bregu 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 words a physio says slowly. 97 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.
“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 Dinamo City, and it is not being withdrawn.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Dejvi Bregu 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.
“I watch every Dinamo City game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Tirana runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
104 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Dinamo City lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dinamo City they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
111 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Dinamo City lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Bernard Berisha 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.
In brief
SquadWords at Dinamo City training over how hard people work
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Words at Dinamo City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Malomo Taofeeq 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.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dinamo City can pretend not to have heard.
Dejvi Bregu 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.
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.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mustapha Koma will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dinamo City the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Lorenco Vila 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.
In brief
SquadDejvi Bregu falls out with a teammate over standards
Bernard Berisha 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.
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 easiest signature of my career.” Bernard Berisha and Dinamo City agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Bernard Berisha 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Words at Dinamo City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dejvi Bregu 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.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dinamo City can pretend not to have heard.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mustapha Koma will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dinamo City the goodbyes have quietly begun.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
SquadWords at Dinamo City training over how hard people work
Bernard Berisha 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words at Dinamo City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Isti Shahini 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.
Lorenco Vila 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Dejvi Bregu 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.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dinamo City can pretend not to have heard.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Dinamo City have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Dejvi Bregu 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.
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.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dinamo City they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Dinamo City lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dinamo City can pretend not to have heard.
26 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Dinamo City lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Dinamo City have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
SquadWords at Dinamo City training over how hard people work
33 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Dinamo City lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dinamo City can pretend not to have heard.
Bernard Berisha 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.
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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Dejvi Bregu 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.
Dejvi Bregu 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.
In brief
SquadMalomo Taofeeq falls out with a teammate over standards
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Dinamo City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Malomo Taofeeq 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.
Bernard Berisha 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Dinamo City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dejvi Bregu 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
0‑1 to Partizani Tirana, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Dinamo City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Malomo Taofeeq 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.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dinamo City can pretend not to have heard.
Bernard Berisha 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.
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.
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Lorran Lorran will call it something else in private.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Dejvi Bregu 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.
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.90 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Bernard Berisha 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.
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.
“I watch every Dinamo City game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Tirana runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Dinamo City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Malomo Taofeeq 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.
“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 Dinamo City, and it is not being withdrawn.
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Dinamo City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dejvi Bregu 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.
Bylis held the lead for 4 minutes, which is not long enough to enjoy it. Dinamo City answered before the celebration had properly finished, and the shape of the afternoon changed with it.
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Dinamo City have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
SquadWords at Dinamo City training over how hard people work
Bernard Berisha 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
In brief
SquadDejvi Bregu falls out with a teammate over standards
Flamurtari go through and Dinamo City go home, 1‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Adrian Doci, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.96
A mark of 7.96 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Bernard Berisha 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.
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 one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.81 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lorran Lorran, and the manager let it.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Isti Shahini 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.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Dinamo City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dejvi Bregu 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.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Dinamo City can pretend not to have heard.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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.
Apollon arrived with $1.2M and left with the best player in the building. The board will call it business; the queue at the ticket office will use other words.
He is going to Apollon, the club has $1.2M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Bernard Berisha 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.
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Dinamo City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Isti Shahini 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.
“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 Dinamo City, and it is not being withdrawn.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Add another name to the list: Apollon have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Ruben Silva-Richards. The answer from Dinamo City has not changed — yet.
Bernard Berisha 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.
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.
Bernard Berisha 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.
36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Dinamo City training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Isti Shahini 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 easiest signature of my career.” Bernard Berisha and Dinamo City agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Dinamo City have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Dejvi Bregu 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.
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Dinamo City, another week without a signature from Naser Aliji.