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!
KF.KORAB wrote:Roshi can be the next Antonio Valencia, fast player without technic
As for Balaj wtf this guy couldn't do anything in Sparta Prague and now Liverpool...Come On. He is surely more talented than Cikalleshi but who knows Klopp is not a novice in football, he knows what he talks about, i wouldn't be surprised if Balaj or Roshi really joins Liverpool.
If Liverpool ever go to league 1 maybe we can start talking about balaj and roshi coming to LFC
Being a Liverpool fan let me go ahead and put this nonsense to rest.....Liverpool already have fast right wingers with the like of Markovic, and Ibe both younger and a lot more talented than fvkn Roshi who is struggling to get game time in the HNL and all of the sudden is going to the EPL
Balaj has like a .1 more percent chance of happening but also nonsense, someone like kramaric who had the best scoring ratio in the HNL since Eduardo shits on balaj he's gone to Leicester and hardly played, but balaj is going to LFC lol okay
albania is gonna have to make it out the group stage, and have these two be the lynchpins for that, if they even want to dream about making a move to a top 6 league
I don't think making it out of the group stages in EUROs is that big of a deal. Let's remember Costa Rica almost made it to SFs in World Cup with half their squad being borderline semi-pro. You don't see those players getting a deal.
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Everyone has got to start somewhere, there is no reason why Balaj can't move to a top 6 league after the Euros, maybe Liverpool is pushing it for the moment but 3 years down the line provided he's performing well then why not Liverpool? Everyone starts somewhere man, be it Rijeka or the Bosnian league like Dzeko who was in the exact same position as Balaj, youngish unheard of striker and then he went Wolfsburg and from there on his record speaks for itself. In fact Dzekos record at the time was considerably worse than Balaj's and that's in the Bosnian league, 2 or 3 steps below the Croatian league imo.
I remember when Lewandowski was a completely random striker in the Polish league, sure he was scoring lots of goals but nobody apart from Polish fans had ever heard of him, and when he moved to Dortmund at not that a young age of around 22, he suddenly found that potential and started scoring for fun, now undoubtedly the best striker in the world.
I think the potential is there for Balaj to do really well in the future, the physical attributes are there, the technical attributes are also there, great finisher. If he can touch up on the mental side of the game he can go far, just needs a little experience in big game scenarios, maybe the euros can give him that.
KF.KORAB wrote:
Balaj has like a .1 more percent chance of happening but also nonsense, someone like kramaric who had the best scoring ratio in the HNL since Eduardo shits on balaj he's gone to Leicester and hardly played, but balaj is going to LFC lol okay
Nikola Kalinic had 30 goals out of 60 games with Hajduk Split, it's not a alot for the Croatian League and was still recruited by Blackburn in PL.
I don't think it's about ratio, but more about the profile/type of the player. Balaj look physically strong also, another good point for the English PL.
Erik wrote:Everyone has got to start somewhere, there is no reason why Balaj can't move to a top 6 league after the Euros, maybe Liverpool is pushing it for the moment but 3 years down the line provided he's performing well then why not Liverpool? Everyone starts somewhere man, be it Rijeka or the Bosnian league like Dzeko who was in the exact same position as Balaj, youngish unheard of striker and then he went Wolfsburg and from there on his record speaks for itself. In fact Dzekos record at the time was considerably worse than Balaj's and that's in the Bosnian league, 2 or 3 steps below the Croatian league imo.
I remember when Lewandowski was a completely random striker in the Polish league, sure he was scoring lots of goals but nobody apart from Polish fans had ever heard of him, and when he moved to Dortmund at not that a young age of around 22, he suddenly found that potential and started scoring for fun, now undoubtedly the best striker in the world.
I think the potential is there for Balaj to do really well in the future, the physical attributes are there, the technical attributes are also there, great finisher. If he can touch up on the mental side of the game he can go far, just needs a little experience in big game scenarios, maybe the euros can give him that.
Balaj and roshi are 24 dzeko was 21 when he got his move to Wolfsburg
Aurora Bulkualis wrote:I don't think making it out of the group stages in EUROs is that big of a deal. Let's remember Costa Rica almost made it to SFs in World Cup with half their squad being borderline semi-pro. You don't see those players getting a deal.
Some did the one guy moved from MLS to Palermo, among others..fair point though none the less even Greece after '04 didn't have a mass exodus of players moving to top leagues, my main point though in the end was that these guys need to show up on a big stage just to have teams from top leagues in Europe to have a interest in them
KF.KORAB wrote:
Balaj has like a .1 more percent chance of happening but also nonsense, someone like kramaric who had the best scoring ratio in the HNL since Eduardo shits on balaj he's gone to Leicester and hardly played, but balaj is going to LFC lol okay
Nikola Kalinic had 30 goals out of 60 games with Hajduk Split, it's not a alot for the Croatian League and was still recruited by Blackburn in PL.
I don't think it's about ratio, but more about the profile/type of the player. Balaj look physically strong also, another good point for the English PL.
Balaj is 25 in a few months, Kalinic was 21 when he made the move to the EPL, I actually like balaj but at the very best I see his ceiling being Moyvisian of Spartak Moscow....ppl claiming him Dzeko, Lewandoski, etc. need to take a chill pill
Erik wrote:Everyone has got to start somewhere, there is no reason why Balaj can't move to a top 6 league after the Euros, maybe Liverpool is pushing it for the moment but 3 years down the line provided he's performing well then why not Liverpool? Everyone starts somewhere man, be it Rijeka or the Bosnian league like Dzeko who was in the exact same position as Balaj, youngish unheard of striker and then he went Wolfsburg and from there on his record speaks for itself. In fact Dzekos record at the time was considerably worse than Balaj's and that's in the Bosnian league, 2 or 3 steps below the Croatian league imo.
I remember when Lewandowski was a completely random striker in the Polish league, sure he was scoring lots of goals but nobody apart from Polish fans had ever heard of him, and when he moved to Dortmund at not that a young age of around 22, he suddenly found that potential and started scoring for fun, now undoubtedly the best striker in the world.
I think the potential is there for Balaj to do really well in the future, the physical attributes are there, the technical attributes are also there, great finisher. If he can touch up on the mental side of the game he can go far, just needs a little experience in big game scenarios, maybe the euros can give him that.
Balaj and roshi are 24 dzeko was 21 when he got his move to Wolfsburg
I'm speaking more in regards to Balaj, Roshi is a different matter altogether but the Balaj point still stands, why does him being 24 make a difference? As long as you aren't hitting 30 there is ample time to get your career launched.
There are numerous examples of late bloomers, if you've ever heard of Grant Holt (Wolves) and Charlie Austin(QPR) they were both playing for conference sides in England which is literally tier 5-8 of English football and working as bricklayers during the ages of 19-23 and then gradually made there way up and eventually got a few seasons in the prem. Grant Holt was stuck in League 1 until he was 29 years old and then Norwich signed him.
Drogba and Klose are similar late bloomers although not as extreme as the above 2
Shemy wrote:
I actually like balaj but at the very best I see his ceiling being Moyvisian of Spartak Moscow....ppl claiming him Dzeko, Lewandoski,
Hell no. Movsisyan is a beast.. at least 2 levels above Balaj in technique/intelligence/finishing.
I'm convinced that you guys have never seen Balaj play besides that fluke highlight against Portugal. Here's food for thought: Cikalleshi who has 0 goals in 12+ games starts over him. That sums up Balaj.
