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Lenjani is our best winger. He is the automatic starter. He is our offensive threat. A player who playes left back for his club. I am not criticising him, i am just saying that we have become accustomed to not pay any attention to this because the other wingers are so poor and he actually looks amazing compared to them. To not pick Rashica is a travesty.

P. happy that Veseli is on the squad. He'll be a big surprise.

Di Biasi picked Veseli because he views him as a RB and coverage for Hysaj. But it's stupid since Xhimshiti started at RB for us and that we have Lila who used to feature for us at RB before Hysaj emerged. Baffling that Veseli barely trained with the team either so it seems like he had this idea for a while now.

I don't like how Kukeli and Basha are both called up. Call up one or the other. I'd prefer Kukeli as he "got us here" as opposed to Basha. There's a chance both might not start either. I also hate Di Biasi's late game subs when he inserts both Kukeli and Basha in which we then proceed to get bombarded on for 10 minutes attempting to hold on the 1-1 draw..

Calling up three pure strikers is a joke. Balaj is in there for the Portugal goal because other than that he's a trash player. Even the likes of Salihi is better than Balaj. Sadiku is in because Di Biasi likes his hunger and work ethic. Cika is our best forward. I don't think Balaj will even be called up for the WCQ but that's me.

Dropping Shala and Rrahmani, no complaints here. Overall, DB stuck with his "guys". We probably lost Rashica to Kosova now, thanks Di Biaisi!

Plako wrote:

Aurora Bulkualis wrote:Wow Veseli for Gym gym. Did not see that coming.

I like Veseli but the dude will probably be repping Kosovo soon. Gym gym will stay with us since he's from Presheva.

Fucking stupid if you ask me.

This callup could very well mean that Veseli has commited to ANT and won't switch to KNT after the Euros.

To be honest i was convinced that Freddie won't be excluded but i thought Djimsiti will be part of list also. I don't think Kosova influenced so much in De Biasi decision but it was Aliji performance against Qatar who made all the difference and sent Djimsiti home. If Freddie would been excluded from list, we would had only one natural right back in team,De Biasi doesn't consider Andi Lila as right back but as defensive winger and central midfielder. I feel bad about GIMCITY but you never know, we will play Ukraine on friday so a last minute injury can bring him to the team again.

Migjeni wrote:While Turkey calls up Emre Mor, 18 years old, born and raised in Denmark, plays in the Danish league for a team which finished 9th and who only had his debut a few days ago. This Italian f*** doesn't call up Rashica and even has the audacity not to call up Xhimshiti who has contributed during the qualifiers. This guy has to go after the Euros.

Also, with this selection I begin to believe that Shaqiri and co. might have been on to something when they told that FSHF wouldn't call them/asked for money/whatever. No other team would let fucking Roshi with 5 minutes during the entire season be called up for the Euros - but in Albania everything goes and no questions asked.
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If Rashica was from Tirane and transferred from FK Partizani before going to Vitesse he'd be in the 23 man roster and he'd be starting. The press calls guys like Balaj bomberi so imagine Rashica?

Like I said there's a quota. These morons have to call up players like Balaj, Roshi and Sadiku because they're from Albania and played in the Superliga. Unfortunate because we missed out on some talented players(Talented enough to string together a pass or a dribble)

Kuqezijeti wrote:Djimsiti out of form? So what Roshi and Balaj are in better form !! What a cunt, leaving Rashica and Djimsiti out. Kukeli is injured and still goes, Lila is a goon and still goes, Veseli is shit and plays in the Swiss unlike Djimsiti who plays in Seria A and doesn't go. We're going to be last in the group and were are going to get thrashed by Ukraine !

Roshi and Balaj would been part of list even if they are injured, they both have as agent Komentaxherin Shakoduka so i don't think De Biasi would like to have problems with Duka before Euro's. Bulku would been part of the team but he was injured so Lutfi Nuri made him a spot in staf.

This is my 2 cents.
We need a game changer and we don't have any. I would have loved Valdet Rama to be on his game, but to many injuries left him out. The only dude who could rivaled him was Rashica and he is left out. Let's hope Lenjani pulls a rabbit out of his heat, cuz I don't see anyone getting us out of trouble.
Didn't expect Xhimshiti out, he was decent against Napoli but got done 2ice by Higuain.

As it stands we will go to the euros with 234 defenders, 1 midfielder and 3 defensive strikers.
What are the odds for Albania being top scores in the tournament?

artan wrote:
If Rashica was from Tirane and transferred from FK Partizani before going to Vitesse he'd be in the 23 man roster and he'd be starting. The press calls guys like Balaj bomberi so imagine Rashica?

Like I said there's a quota. These morons have to call up players like Balaj, Roshi and Sadiku because they're from Albania and played in the Superliga. Unfortunate because we missed out on some talented players(Talented enough to string together a pass or a dribble)

I've read some other comments as well and I gotta say that you Kosovars play the race card more than Al Sharpton.

If there was some " Albanian from Albania" or "superliga favoritism" in place then you better believe that the likes of Hyka, Salihi, Lilaj would've been included over scrubs like Rrahmani, Shala, Kukeli(at the end of his career) in the 27th men roster at least. Chill playing the victim because it can go both ways.

Albanian media has always criticized GDB for the superliga not being represented enough in the NT and him being obsessed by "anonymous" foreign products. They have a point but so does he(the superliga is shit).

Now each player is different. Balaj scored the most important goal of the qualifiers so he was always going to be in, Roshi has contributed A LOT in the NT and we are extremely thin at his position, so there was no way in hell he was going to be dropped. All these are great locker room dudes too.

Genti wrote:

Dallku wrote:
Not gonna lie about Rashica, I'm lowkey happy he was dropped because he was awful in every game I've watched of him. De Biasi scouted him a lot and that kid just never impressed. He plays like a headless chicken and just loses the ball all the time. He has some talent, it's not like he's an anti-footballer but it looks like he overestimates his abilities too much. Seeing how Albanians have overrated/praised him so much I can't blame him if he thinks he's Messi.

Winger position is extremely thin/low quality tho. We are stuck with Roshi, Gashi, Lila, and Lenjani. Not ideal lmao..

I think you're the only person in this forum who is happy that Rashica didn't make the squad lol.

I can't say that i am happy that Rashica didn't make the squad but had his chance against Luxembourg and Qatar so if you can't impress against those teams, means that you don't deserve to be part of Euro's, simple as that. I have impression that if De Biasi would included Avdijaj in preliminary list, he would scored in both matches and would showed more than Rashica. I feel very sorry only about Djimsiti who didn't do anything wrong to deserve this.