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!
By that logic, Suga Ray would be untouchable for Albania. He warmed the bench 36 times for Inter in 2015-16, and a few times for Barcelona last year.
Sure, there can be the odd exception. For us, only Broja. No other difference makers exist..
That's only if you ignore context. Rey was not at Inter to contribute to the team. He was there as a primavera youth to fill up the numbers. Similar to Vrioni at Juve.
I'm talking about real players who are there to produce. Asllani was signed to contribute to the team. Kumbulla was signed to contribute to the team.
Kumbulla acquisition has proven to be a big failure for Roma. Mourinho already declared that Kumbulla is no better (and actually even worse) than random Norwegian leaguers.
^ That's Mourinho being Mourinho in a press conference.
Actions speak louder than words. Actions say that Mourinho values him so high that he kept him in the team for this title contending season and rejected any offers and trades for him. Torino wanted him after losing Bremer but Mourinho said no... He wants to win the league with this professional.
Is that why he nailed Kumbulla to the bench in front of his own fans, in the middle of Tirana?
So he's supposed to bench one of the best defenders in Europe who's at his prime of his career with an incredible experience (Smalldini) just to show that he values Kumbulla?
The fact that he kept him in the team shows how much he values him. You need a deep, talented team to win league titles and this season Roma will be contending in 3 competitions.
It seems that Danel Sinani has leapfrogged Milot Rashica in the pecking order at Norwich.
After losing at Hull City, coach Dean Smith shook things up by inserting Sinani and Josh Sargent into the starting lineup. It has paid off big time, as the squad has now won 2 in a row.
Sinani has registered a goal and 2 assists, while Sargent netted 3 goals himself during this 2 game stretch. Always thought Sargent was better than Rashica during their time playing for Werder, and I watched a lot of their matches back then.
Sinani no joke either, a great deal of experience in European Cups. He scored huge goals against the likes of Sevilla, Olympiakos, Cluj, and APOEL while playing for F91 Dudelange.
Mitaj to Loco Moscow, strange move considering they're banned from European football. Before that a CL/EL regular. If he can break into that team I'll be impressed.
Definitely a weird one in many ways. AEK fans are celebrating that they are getting so much for a 19 year old who's not part of their first team and "hasn't improved. "
After seeing Mitaj for the u21 in the past few years I don't agree that he hasn't improved. He has improved at least physically and definitely sees the game like a professional. His weakness is offensively(as a fullback) but he can be a versatile defender. As for not being part of AEK's first team meh... it could be politics.
It's interesting that the Russians are investing so much in him. Their scouts must be seeing something. Btw that league is not a joke and neither is Lokomotiv. They invest a lot. Hopefully they can get unbanned in Europe.
Definitely a weird one in many ways. AEK fans are celebrating that they are getting so much for a 19 year old who's not part of their first team and "hasn't improved. "
After seeing Mitaj for the u21 in the past few years I don't agree that he hasn't improved. He has improved at least physically and definitely sees the game like a professional. His weakness is offensively(as a fullback) but he can be a versatile defender. As for not being part of AEK's first team meh... it could be politics.
It's interesting that the Russians are investing so much in him. Their scouts must be seeing something. Btw that league is not a joke and neither is Lokomotiv. They invest a lot. Hopefully they can get unbanned in Europe.
Hopefully they're not unbanned , they (Russians) don't deserve to play. But Mitaj defo didn't play because of politics, him and Mihaj gonna play much much better they're gone from that shit country.
We'll see how strong the league is now that there was a max exodus of players
