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Re: Albanian National Team [General topic]

by RedFootballs » Thu Sep 11, 2025 4:55 pm

Dallku wrote: Thu Sep 11, 2025 4:45 pm Albanian meritocracy:

Arber Hoxha - 17 caps for Albania as an attacker only has 1 goal contribution and that was an assist against Andorra. He's a bench player in Croatian league too.

Meanwhile Anis Mehmeti who plays in his position in much more competitive league(and a starter) doesn't even get called up at all. Not even for a friendly against Gibraltar.
I doubt the situation with Mehmeti is so simple, there is probably conflict between him and Sylvinho's team.

On form, he makes the squad very very easily, of course. But he is never called up at all, or even mentioned by Sylvinho, I don't think it's a 'blind spot', he is probably unhappy at his role and doesn't want to come until he's promised some minutes.

The likes of Uzuni, Hoxha, Bajrami etc are all behind him currently at club level.

Re: Albanian National Team [General topic]

by Dallku » Thu Sep 11, 2025 4:45 pm

Albanian meritocracy:

Arber Hoxha - 17 caps for Albania as an attacker only has 1 goal contribution and that was an assist against Andorra. He's a bench player in Croatian league too.

Meanwhile Anis Mehmeti who plays in his position in much more competitive league(and a starter) doesn't even get called up at all. Not even for a friendly against Gibraltar.

Re: Albanian National Team [General topic]

by Aurora Bulkualis » Thu Sep 11, 2025 2:27 am

Simboli i Diellit wrote: Wed Sep 10, 2025 8:21 pm The match in Serbia most likely will be played without fans. Fifa might punish them to play one or two games behind closed doors .
Honestly for the best. Albania has shown they can host games without major incidents. Serbia hasn't.

Re: Albanian National Team [General topic]

by Simboli i Diellit » Wed Sep 10, 2025 8:21 pm

The match in Serbia most likely will be played without fans. Fifa might punish them to play one or two games behind closed doors .

Re: Albanian National Team [General topic]

by artan » Wed Sep 10, 2025 6:11 pm

RedFootballs wrote: Wed Sep 10, 2025 5:57 pm
Princ wrote: Wed Sep 10, 2025 12:56 am
RedFootballs wrote: Wed Sep 10, 2025 12:17 am Princ already convinced me, Manaj is really an essential part of this team
Who’s better?

Manaj didn’t play at Gibraltar and we struggled there too.
I always thought Manaj had some talent but he is nowhere near talented enough to be as lazy as he is. He is, so, so, so fucking lazy and unfit every time he plays and he is not near good enough to be able to get away with that.

In the rare moments where he's in good physical condition he's a good player. But simply he is just far too low energy most of the time, to the point its impossible to tell what he is doing because he simply can't get into any positions. Maybe he would be good if he got into the game more and had more touches, he just can't because of how lazy he is.
Manaj is never a good player even if he has good conditioning. His best skill is being a below average goal poacher which is a trait that is virtually useless for Albania. Every other aspect of his game is just poor. He has no strength or athleticism, he has no playmaking skills, he has poor IQ, he's lazy, etc. Just an awful player who is living off his resume of being a youth player for Inter and Barca.

Re: Albanian National Team [General topic]

by RedFootballs » Wed Sep 10, 2025 5:57 pm

Princ wrote: Wed Sep 10, 2025 12:56 am
RedFootballs wrote: Wed Sep 10, 2025 12:17 am Princ already convinced me, Manaj is really an essential part of this team
Who’s better?

Manaj didn’t play at Gibraltar and we struggled there too.
I always thought Manaj had some talent but he is nowhere near talented enough to be as lazy as he is. He is, so, so, so fucking lazy and unfit every time he plays and he is not near good enough to be able to get away with that.

In the rare moments where he's in good physical condition he's a good player. But simply he is just far too low energy most of the time, to the point its impossible to tell what he is doing because he simply can't get into any positions. Maybe he would be good if he got into the game more and had more touches, he just can't because of how lazy he is.

Re: Albanian National Team [General topic]

by artan » Wed Sep 10, 2025 5:48 pm

Sylvinho has turned into Reja. This team is just so flat with no creativity or pace. We're still relying on Hysaj to be our main source of wide play on the flanks. And no disrespect to Hysaj because he tries his best to provide some width and does an okay job at it despite it being clear he's not an wingback.

And playing Broja as a winger is just stupid. He's obviously not a winger and he played fine yesterday but he doesn't have the skillset for that position. Playing him outwide to get Manaj in the lineup is just stupid. Broja is clearly the most talented striker in our player pool just play him as a striker and end this Manaj experiment. Sylvinho thinks Manaj can be some kind of hold up striker but he's a midget who gives no effort. Even guys like Balaj and Cikaleshi had better hold up play.

Albania had some kind of width and counter attacking play in the 2024 qualifiers which played a big part in them qualifying (along with wonder goals and VAR). This Albanian team is flat out bad and mirrors alot of that Reja's squad from 2019-2021. Albania should expect to get embarrassed by Serbia who aren't even good.

Re: Albanian National Team [General topic]

by Dallku » Wed Sep 10, 2025 4:30 pm

CanaYouDoIt wrote: Tue Sep 09, 2025 11:49 pm On another note Milinkovic is suspended against us which is huge so no doubt we will make the most of it and play Manaj against them

Lukic will be missing too

Next month it will be 2 shit teams in crisis battling for 2nd place. It's a shame the current state of Albania because this Serbia is very beatable. They are worse than the Czechs and Polaks from last qualifiers.

Re: Albanian National Team [General topic]

by Princ » Wed Sep 10, 2025 12:56 am

RedFootballs wrote: Wed Sep 10, 2025 12:17 am Princ already convinced me, Manaj is really an essential part of this team
Who’s better?

Manaj didn’t play at Gibraltar and we struggled there too.

Re: Albanian National Team [General topic]

by RedFootballs » Wed Sep 10, 2025 12:17 am

CanaYouDoIt wrote: Tue Sep 09, 2025 11:42 pm I’m back home, probably the worst game of football I’ve watched live

We all could’ve played with how slow they were playing today


We are just horrible , and Sylvinho has given up because why else would he continue to make the same subs wayyyy too late . Manaj for 80mins is a crime.

Watching Manaj live you just see how he always complains, barely moves and has the touch of a rapist. I’m done with this team. We ain’t qualifying for shit.
Princ already convinced me, Manaj is really an essential part of this team

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