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I would consider Bare somewhat of a technical player who is overall decent with the ball. It's not really his fault that we're awful in possession and eventually when the big teams press we have errors. It's a system collapse if anything because you can replace Bare with many players and they'll make that mistake.

The system is just not capable. When you have wingbacks who can't get forward (with the exception of Balliu for now), forwards who don't have pace or technical skills this creates a flat formation that puts more pressure on the midfield and it encourages the opposition to press.
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The mistakes Bare makes are exaggerated and unfortunate/unlucky more than anything.

Why doesn't he make those mistakes with Espanyol? They literally play possession style and he has the ball in tight situations while being pressed all the time.

Bare is not Modrid or Pedri level comfortable on the ball but he's not exactly an anti footballer either. For Albanian standards he's very comfortable on the ball. Definitely way more than Gjasula, Laci, Ramadani...
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You field Gjasula, Laci and Ramadani for size and defensive resistance, not on ball skill.

They bullied those midgets Pedri and Gavi all night at Spain. Made them look like little girls..
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Princ wrote: Fri Apr 01, 2022 12:18 am You field Gjasula, Laci and Ramadani for size and defensive resistance, not on ball skill.

They bullied those midgets Pedri and Gavi all night at Spain. Made them look like little girls..
I do think Gjasula has value as a destroyer and against certain teams he can be needed. But he has serious issues with his pace and he's not good on the ball & mistake prone. If Asllani hadn't broke out I would pencil him in that destroyer role. It's clear Asllani is the better option going forward and playing Gjasula with Bare/Asllani is just overkill. Laci is okay but he's not a fit in Reja's system as he has no composure on the ball and his best attributes (aggression and work rate) really isn't utilized in this style. Laci would have been good under Di Biasi where he can press and just be super aggressive like Xhaka/Abrashi.

As for Ramadani he plays for a team in Hungary that will probably get relegated. Dude is a Superliga player and it baffles me how he still gets minutes.
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artan wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:58 pm I would consider Bare somewhat of a technical player who is overall decent with the ball. It's not really his fault that we're awful in possession and eventually when the big teams press we have errors. It's a system collapse if anything because you can replace Bare with many players and they'll make that mistake.

The system is just not capable. When you have wingbacks who can't get forward (with the exception of Balliu for now), forwards who don't have pace or technical skills this creates a flat formation that puts more pressure on the midfield and it encourages the opposition to press.
This is all on Reja, it’s the coach’s job to create a system that gets the best out of the players, similar to what De Biasi did, but no he continues to play with the same 3-5-2 for 3 years now. His assistants are a bunch of donkeys too, claiming we have the players for this system. It sucks we will keep wasting more time…
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Dallku wrote: Fri Apr 01, 2022 12:09 am The mistakes Bare makes are exaggerated and unfortunate/unlucky more than anything.

Why doesn't he make those mistakes with Espanyol? They literally play possession style and he has the ball in tight situations while being pressed all the time.

Bare is not Modrid or Pedri level comfortable on the ball but he's not exactly an anti footballer either. For Albanian standards he's very comfortable on the ball. Definitely way more than Gjasula, Laci, Ramadani...
I would guess that Espenyal manage to probably get near 40% possession against the big teams in La Liga while Albania can barely manage to get 30% against Poland and had like 18% against Spain. When you're being suffocated on the ball and deep in your half the entire match you're going to have a costly turnover. It's also retarded because we don't have any resemble of a counter attack to keep the opposition honest. Whose going to threaten them on the counters? If you're going to play this style you need some pace on the flanks to punish them.

Atleast Di Biasi's teams had counter attacks that can make teams pay when we were getting suffocated and it's how we scored most of our goals.
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Princ wrote: Fri Apr 01, 2022 12:18 am You field Gjasula, Laci and Ramadani for size and defensive resistance, not on ball skill.

They bullied those midgets Pedri and Gavi all night at Spain. Made them look like little girls..
I guess that's why Gjasula and Ramadani have had much better careers than those 2 midgets.
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artan wrote: Fri Apr 01, 2022 1:23 am
Dallku wrote: Fri Apr 01, 2022 12:09 am The mistakes Bare makes are exaggerated and unfortunate/unlucky more than anything.

Why doesn't he make those mistakes with Espanyol? They literally play possession style and he has the ball in tight situations while being pressed all the time.

Bare is not Modrid or Pedri level comfortable on the ball but he's not exactly an anti footballer either. For Albanian standards he's very comfortable on the ball. Definitely way more than Gjasula, Laci, Ramadani...
I would guess that Espenyal manage to probably get near 40% possession against the big teams in La Liga while Albania can barely manage to get 30% against Poland and had like 18% against Spain. When you're being suffocated on the ball and deep in your half the entire match you're going to have a costly turnover. It's also retarded because we don't have any resemble of a counter attack to keep the opposition honest. Whose going to threaten them on the counters? If you're going to play this style you need some pace on the flanks to punish them.

Atleast Di Biasi's teams had counter attacks that can make teams pay when we were getting suffocated and it's how we scored most of our goals.
You guys are spot on, most the blame falls of Reja. I said the other day, when you are defending the whole game, and have the ball for 20% of the time it wears you down. Add in the fact that tactically Reja hasn't coached a single good game of passing football in 3 years, and mistakes happen.

100% Reja's fault. A competent coach would get much more out of these guys.
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CanaYouDoIt wrote: Fri Apr 01, 2022 1:34 am
artan wrote: Fri Apr 01, 2022 1:23 am
Dallku wrote: Fri Apr 01, 2022 12:09 am The mistakes Bare makes are exaggerated and unfortunate/unlucky more than anything.

Why doesn't he make those mistakes with Espanyol? They literally play possession style and he has the ball in tight situations while being pressed all the time.

Bare is not Modrid or Pedri level comfortable on the ball but he's not exactly an anti footballer either. For Albanian standards he's very comfortable on the ball. Definitely way more than Gjasula, Laci, Ramadani...
I would guess that Espenyal manage to probably get near 40% possession against the big teams in La Liga while Albania can barely manage to get 30% against Poland and had like 18% against Spain. When you're being suffocated on the ball and deep in your half the entire match you're going to have a costly turnover. It's also retarded because we don't have any resemble of a counter attack to keep the opposition honest. Whose going to threaten them on the counters? If you're going to play this style you need some pace on the flanks to punish them.

Atleast Di Biasi's teams had counter attacks that can make teams pay when we were getting suffocated and it's how we scored most of our goals.
You guys are spot on, most the blame falls of Reja. I said the other day, when you are defending the whole game, and have the ball for 20% of the time it wears you down. Add in the fact that tactically Reja hasn't coached a single good game of passing football in 3 years, and mistakes happen.

100% Reja's fault. A competent coach would get much more out of these guys.
Reja has been a total disappointment. For someone who coached in Serie A Napoli, Lazio, and Atalanta I really thought he would do much better. He’s deff the most high profile coach we’ve ever had and he’s turned to be shit.
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He just doesn't know how to adopt a style to fit the players and his blatantly benching of quality players (broja, balliu, and bajrami) for amateurs was baffling. No other national team would have benched a guy like Broja for Cikaleshi/Balaj or Balliu for a Qatari scrub. That alone should have got him sacked.

Going back to his style it's one thing if the player quality is not there and you're trying to remain competitive which he would get a free pass for like the first year under his tenure where the player quality was poor and we had some good improvements. But the quality has caught up and this is our best team in terms of talent we've probably ever had but yet it seems our ceiling is beating teams like Belarus and Kazakhstan.
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