Albanians abroad

[artan]

Serxhio Kalaj started today in Serie B. Hopefully he gets more matches

Another guy slowly making good progress. Much improved from when I saw him last year . Can’t have enough good depth. Just shows the quality of coaching differences from the proper countries and the lacklustre ones

He's a bit on the older side (22) of youth players but I hope he breaks through as our depth at center back is weak. We're one injury away from Hoxhallari starting.

[Skenderbeu9]

Players like Rrahmani and Aliti could have been they usefull for depth
Zurich leads at Switzerland with the latest starting also Bledi Krasniqi is an interesting player for a call up

[CanaYouDoIt]

There are 3 midfielders I'm keeping an eye on for us over the next few years. Anis Mehmeti, Erdis Kraja and Erald Latki.

All 3 play in the 3rd division for now but hopefully over the next couple years they progress up the ranks. Best case scenario is that all 3 develop into guys who get mins in the Serie A/PL lower ranked sides but even if Mehmeti only plays in the championship that's a better league than any top league in Croatia etc.

An example, Bare at their age was in the exact same situation. All about building depth, I have my eye on the world cup in 2026, by then these guys (Broja, Bajrami, Kumbulla) should all be in their prime, its a golden generation.

[Dallku]

^ Don't know why the u21 stopped calling up Anis Mehmeti. He looked decent the few times he played.

[CanaYouDoIt]

^ Don't know why the u21 stopped calling up Anis Mehmeti. He looked decent the few times he played.

It's weird especially since we called up superliga players in his position.

[artan]

Mehmeti is definitely the best midfielder in the current u21 bunch although he may actually be more of a winger. He seems like a player in the mold of Bajrami, all around attacking ability and comfortable on the wings. He's proven he's at least a championship level caliber player this year and him playing in league one doesn't reflect on his ability. I suspect he'll be back in the Championship soon whether through promotion or though a different team.

Also scored and assisted yesterday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpJaLgFHRik

[Dallku]

He does seem like a #10. With the u21 he played CM and he did stand out because he was very comfortable on the ball.

Maybe he had a fall out with Bushi or something.

[CanaYouDoIt]

Bushi is just weird with his selections ngl. Always calling up guys from his academy too. As for Mehmeti I agree he's one of them #10/LW type players (Coutinho, Grealish). Might go as far to say he's probably our best winger even while in League 1.

[Princ]

Cikalleshi super goal to put Konyaspor up 1-0 at home today.

Double digit goals (10) now and back into the top 15 scorers list.

[artan]

That was actually a good goal by Cikaleshi even if the keeper should have saved it (reminded me of the typical Berisha blunder)

Too bad we couldn't get Bytyqi.