Albanian National Team [General topic]

[Dallku]

Only reason I wanted to watch was because of Kumbulla... fantastic.

I know his last game he was injured but that was over a month ago. I hope he's not flaking

That's the problem with bigger names/future stars. They have a lot of agent and club influence to skip international games so they can avoid injuries. Remember even Cana used to skip a lot of friendlies.

[Aurora Bulkualis]

Only reason I wanted to watch was because of Kumbulla... fantastic.

I know his last game he was injured but that was over a month ago. I hope he's not flaking

That's the problem with bigger names/future stars. They have a lot of agent and club influence to skip international games so they can avoid injuries. Remember even Cana used to skip a lot of friendlies.

Yeah, but he hasn't even debuted as a starter yet. Hopefully he doesn't start acting like a diva.

[CanaYouDoIt]

Only reason I wanted to watch was because of Kumbulla... fantastic.

I know his last game he was injured but that was over a month ago. I hope he's not flaking

That's the problem with bigger names/future stars. They have a lot of agent and club influence to skip international games so they can avoid injuries. Remember even Cana used to skip a lot of friendlies.

Yeah, but he hasn't even debuted as a starter yet. Hopefully he doesn't start acting like a diva.

Guys he has a potential huge move coming up , if there’s any risk to injury he shouldn’t play . It’s the nations league , it’s fine.

[artan]

Yea I wouldn't put to much thought into Kumbulla. He's had a few injuries this year and it's probably best for him to come into next season fully healthy. Hamstring injuries are tough.

[Simboli i Diellit]

Yea I wouldn't put to much thought into Kumbulla. He's had a few injuries this year and it's probably best for him to come into next season fully healthy. Hamstring injuries are tough.

Indeed he hasn’t even trained with his club yet so it would be useless . Maybe even counterproductive for his move if he has a bad performance or gets injured more. Probably he hasn’t even recovered yet. Btw quite excited on Çepele’s call. It seemed quite impossible as his agent is Mino Raiola that he would accept to play for us.

[Aurora Bulkualis]

Mino Raiola that he would accept to play for us.

Raiola is his agent??? Damn.

[Simboli i Diellit]

Mino Raiola that he would accept to play for us.

Raiola is his agent??? Damn.

Yes , he must have that much potential otherwise why would Raiola agent him. Maybe playing for Albania at such age would help his career and Raiola could place him easier at some clubs from Serie B to low ranking ones in top leagues.... who knows what the strategy is here. Quite sure he wouldn’t get the chance for Italy U21 or the main team in a few years... this might speed the process , make or break a top player

[Aurora Bulkualis]

Play time for Albania > Bench for Italy or Belgium. I think Januzaj would have been a radically different player today if he joined us.

He choose to spend the peak years of his development on the bench for Belgium and Man Utd though. Then he figured out it was too late.

[Princ]

The list states Sadiku as a player for Levante but he is currently a free agent.. albeit he is now rumoured to the Turkish second division where he will compete with Cikalleshi.

http://www.panorama.com.al/sport/zbuloh ... firmes-me/

It seems pretty clear that they want to cap Cepele (good for us) but I wonder who is advising him on making such a naive choice so early on. If he turns out to be a big star, he will definitely regret jumping so fast to join Albania.

[Aurora Bulkualis]

The list states Sadiku as a player for Levante but he is currently a free agent.. albeit he is now rumoured to the Turkish second division where he will compete with Cikalleshi.

http://www.panorama.com.al/sport/zbuloh ... firmes-me/

It seems pretty clear that they want to cap Cepele (good for us) but I wonder who is advising him on making such a naive choice so early on. If he turns out to be a big star, he will definitely regret jumping so fast to join Albania.

Albania is going to have a world class defence. Nothing naive about it.