Albanian Football Forum

Dallku wrote:For sure this will be different. Sitting back and breaking up opponent's play has been mostly a success in recent years but now building up play will be required. Macedonia, Israel and Lichtenstein will be happy with draws in Albania so they are coming to defend. Can you break them down?

I trust our defense and midfield(defensively) but Albania probably has the worst attackers in Europe(outside of pot 6 teams) and I'm not kidding.

Supersport insists that any team who wants Sadiku should pay 9 million euro to Zurich

Macedonia is not a joke as people think, they beat Serbia at home and we played only on friendlies but they had better results. Hasani is more skillful than any of our players but i have my doubts that we will play against us, especially after last incident.

Macedonia is not a very good squad. If we drop points to them it would be more due to us choking rather than getting out played. They have quite a few superliga esque players starting for them.

Am I the only who's gotten optimistic from the fact that both Eurocup Finalist came from our qualifying group? We competed very well against two finalists who are both obviously much better than us. If we can just go out every game with the desire to compete then we will get good results I believe.. Spain and Italy will be sleeping on this group they think it's already over. Buffon is already talking about playing at the next WC. Let's give him an early retirement

Even if we somehow manage to beat Italy and Spain head to head (which i highly doubt), they will probably get max points from all the weaker teams which we wont.

I think you can pretty much write off us qualifying for the WC this time round we just need a good solid 3rd place finish to cement our improvement as a footballing nation. Will be time to test new talent and bring a couple of youngsters through and begin dismantling some of the older heads.

Aurora Bulkualis wrote:Even if we somehow manage to beat Italy and Spain head to head (which i highly doubt), they will probably get max points from all the weaker teams which we wont.

If we beat Italy and Spain they will most likely meet in the final in Russia 2018.


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Don't be surprised if you never see Veseli again(or anytime soon) in an Albanian jersey. He was called up to the Euros as a favor for Lugano's president because Tramezzani is very tight with that club. Tramezzani was even rumored to be their head coach a few weeks ago and now there are news about Lugano wanting to sell Veseli because he played in the Euros LOL. It was bizarre when it was first announced but now it's so obvious that it was a favor for Lugano by our coaching stuff. Ironically karma really hurt us there... They did Djimisti dirty but De Biasi felt guilty and cried when he dropped him. Imagine how pissed he is at Veseli now..

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Nah I don't buy it. Simply being in the Euros does nothing to a players value at all. Lugano are just selling because hes an overrated fool who was called up to let in that last minute goal to France which funnily enough that point would have got us into the knockouts and would have knocked Portugal out!

Erik wrote:Nah I don't buy it. Simply being in the Euros does nothing to a players value at all.

That's debatable but what's sure is that if you're a club and had a player at the Euros UEFA paid you like 300k. It may not be a lot of money by world standards but for a small club like Lugano, Partizani, etc it is a decent amount.

Anyway we can only speculate. I started thinking about this because all signs indicate that Tramezzani is very connected and good friends with Lugano's president. What other reasoning could there be? Picking Veseli over Djimisti was very weird.