With memories of the golden years (80's) of the albanian football still fresh on her mind, Albania is now attempting to recreate its strong football legacy. As young players start making their names abroad, the future is looking bright for Albanian football!
RedFootballs wrote: ↑Sat Feb 19, 2022 8:38 pm
Uzuni's career has already been way better than Cika's and Cika is like 32 years old.
On what planet?
Cikalleshi potted 8 goals in 8 games from 2019 to 2020, as the undisputed MVP of Albania. He scores every ~168 minutes for us, most recently ripped the net of top 30 Poland in Warsaw.
Uzuni has not registered a goal on an opponent inside the top 200 yet, scoring every ~648 minutes, and missing countless chances in front of goal.
Dallku wrote: ↑Sat Feb 19, 2022 8:44 pm
With all due respect to Cikalleshi (because he has scored some nice goals for the NT) but he wouldn't even be allowed in the stadiums of a top league.
Even in Turkey he scored every 3-4 months.
Cikalleshi can play wherever he wants, as he has scored 7 goals this season for the 2nd best team in Turkey, and proven to be just as good, if not better than Muriqi.
What does it matter who plays where? Are you fan of Albania or fan of top leagues?
Where he plays defines his level and professionalism.... And that always translates to the NT at least 9 out of ``10 times.
Unless it's a young and upcoming talent who naturally has to start from the bottom or a player heading towards the end of his career.. But if they spend the best times of their career bouncing around low-level leagues then that's obviously their level.
The only exception I can think of is Roshi but Roshi is a very unique case because of his pace. His pace a alone was helping the NT but Roshi as a player wasn't good enough for a good league. Technically, tactically, work ethic, etc.. he was always below average.
Dallku wrote: ↑Sun Feb 20, 2022 2:10 am
Where he plays defines his level and professionalism.... And that always translates to the NT at least 9 out of ``10 times.
Unless it's a young and upcoming talent who naturally has to start from the bottom or a player heading towards the end of his career.. But if they spend the best times of their career bouncing around low-level leagues then that's obviously their level.
The only exception I can think of is Roshi but Roshi is a very unique case because of his pace. His pace a alone was helping the NT but Roshi as a player wasn't good enough for a good league. Technically, tactically, work ethic, etc.. he was always below average.
And inversely Rashica who did well in Bundesliga. Roshi failed out of Bundesliga, while Rashica succeeded. Should we use that as a metric?
It's not hard to gauge what a player is and isn't good at from a few hours of watching them. NT football is similar to Top League football once you discount the semi-pro teams. Sometimes the NT in and of itself is enough to judge a player.
"Cheap things you can buy in bulk, but Bulku is priceless" Ervin Xhevahir Bulku
In international football the NTs with the most top league players are able to separate themselves.
What is a solid European NT with mostly off league players ? You won’t find any unless you pick on Russia or Turkey who pay their domestic players a lot of money to stay in their leagues. When a Kazakhstan plays vs Moldova it’s 3rd tier level that’s why they have 0 chance of qualifying.
Dallku wrote: ↑Sun Feb 20, 2022 5:06 pm
Bare 90 minutes and potentially MOTM against a great Sevilla team while playing as the only DM.
"He's too small" tho...
No Dallku, didn't you know, you can only be a DM if you're a 6'2 lump who dominates physically. The Spanish definitely haven’t gotten rid of this narrative over the last 15 years , the Croatians definitely didn't dominate teams with a 5'7 CM , Verrati isn't good enough because he's small too.
It always was a failed narrative by a guy who wants to play croatian league players over actual professionals.