Are players with Kosovo-Albanian roots all frauds?

by Hapless_Hans Sun Jan 14, 2018 12:00 pm

Easy enough question.

I give examples:

Xherdan Shaqiri
Adnan Januzaj
Shkodran Mustafi
Granit Xhaka

all have Kosovo-Albanian roots, and have all turned out to be frauds.

Anyone has counterexamples? In lack of those, I answer, 'Yes'.

by rincon Sun Jan 14, 2018 12:03 pm

Its the same in Serie A. Only Hysaj is great. For sure the worst talent pool in the balkans.

by Firenze Sun Jan 14, 2018 12:34 pm

Yup. @UrbanRoots too.

by urbaNRoots Sun Jan 14, 2018 1:04 pm

rincon wrote:Its the same in Serie A. Only Hysaj is great. For sure the worst talent pool in the balkans.

m8 Igli Tare dominated Serie A for years..

by rincon Sun Jan 14, 2018 1:09 pm

Igli Tare retired a decade ago, got relegated and didn't dominate anything. Not really that relevant when considering the current players.

GOAT sporting director though, top 3 in Serie A.

by Hapless_Hans Sun Jan 14, 2018 1:10 pm

I said Kosovo, not all of Albania. Name me a Kosovo Albanian of note who's not a fraud.
The four I mention above have to be classed among the biggest frauds in recent yers.

by S Sun Jan 14, 2018 1:10 pm

Italians are giving them good competition these days

by urbaNRoots Sun Jan 14, 2018 1:14 pm

Hapless_Hans wrote:I said Kosovo, not all of Albania. Name me a Kosovo Albanian of note who's not a fraud.
The four I mention above have to be classed among the biggest frauds in recent yers.

Mustafi is not a Kosovar in that case. His parents come from Gostivar, Mazedonien.

I’ll give you Januzaj and Shaqiri btw but Xhaka and Mustafi I’d like to see under a different manager than Arsene “no idea how to set up a team” Wenger.

by urbaNRoots Sun Jan 14, 2018 1:19 pm

Speaking of Kosovar frauds, Milot Rashica has been fantastic for Vitesse for a couple of yeara and has been linked with a bunch of Italian clubs including Lazio.

by Hapless_Hans Thu Apr 26, 2018 3:59 pm

words can't begin to describe the fraudulence of Mustafi and Xhaka

I'm shivering at the thought that Mustafi might go to the World Cup now that Boateng is out

by guest7 Thu Apr 26, 2018 4:02 pm

racist

by Freeza Thu Apr 26, 2018 4:02 pm

Riza Durmisi is good.

by Art Morte Thu Apr 26, 2018 4:04 pm

I saw in the goal replay that Mustafi was jogging back when Koscielny was in a foot race with Griezmann, I don't know how a CB has that kind of attitude. "I'm sure Laurent will deal with that, I don't have to even sprint." Might have been in a better position to block Griezmann's second effort had he actually sprinted.

by urbaNRoots Thu Apr 26, 2018 4:04 pm

Hapless_Hans wrote:words can't begin to describe the fraudulence of Mustafi and Xhaka

I'm shivering at the thought that Mustafi might go to the World Cup now that Boateng is out

Xhaka has been great, agree about Mustafi.