Albanian Football Forum

No Gruda for the October matches.
Seems like he chose Germany U21.

Has he been injured? It doesn't seem like he's made his debut in EPL yet.

Aurora Bulkualis wrote: Fri Oct 04, 2024 5:42 pm Has he been injured? It doesn't seem like he's made his debut in EPL yet.

He has been injured, but regardless, he wants to play for Germany, even posed with the German flag on his first photoshoot for Brighton.

Gruda hasn't played because of lack of match fitness, Brighton has so many options on his position so he must earn minutes . It's really funny to see how albanian media covers Gruda rejection, if Gruda had origin from Kosova or Ilirida they would use "traitor", "mercenary" Xhaka and Shaqiri got attacked by Duka before game against Switzerland, when it comes to Gruda or Hasa they are very careful. I don't have nothing against Gruda or Hasa players will always what's their best financial interest and career path but it's crazy how anti kosovar sentiment is normalised on albanian media, especially after Albania decision to asslick Serbia they have unleashed all their hate and anger towards Kosova.

I wrote this some weeks ago but will write it again - we obsess over Gruda as if he is our player. The reality is he's a German footballer and he hasn't done anything special to obsess over him either, we write about him as if he is our player and post regular updates about his career.

Even Albanian medias are regularly writing articles about him - why?

The facts are he is a German footballer and he doesn't represent our country, I don't consider him an Albanian footballer and unless he's playing for us or Kosova I couldn't care less what happens in his career, and nobody else should either, he is German and he made his choice. I have no problem with him, he made his choice for his career, we will see if he changes it later, but on our part, Albanians need to stop fangirling over player who doesn't even play for our country.

Albanian journalists 'claim' him and write articles about him as if he represents us, he is competing against us now, why should we care about him and talk regularly about him? We don't need to hate or dislike him, but he should be irrelevant for Albanian football as long as he isn't playing for us, his career has no meaning for our football.

Let the German media write about him. We write about him more than the Germans do even though he represents them.

It's because last month Sylvinho was being diplomatic when asked about Gruda so people assumed that he meant that he's coming. So now they are disappointed again...

Gruda has made it clear that he's only playing for Germany and would've been in the Euros if he didn't get injured.

Kumbulla just scored against Mallorca.

In La Liga this season Kumbulla has as many goals as Muriqi.

Balliu continues playing as LB for Vallecano.

Simboli i Diellit wrote: Sat Oct 05, 2024 7:57 pm Balliu continues playing as LB for Vallecano.

This is very good news, Mitaj should play higher on the pitch, midfield or left forward.