Jean

Central Defender - Retired
10 Jan 2030
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Marked for Jean

89 Edition

The Gabala Gazette

10 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad10 Apr 2028

Mats Lillebo breaks a bone — 67 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 67 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market10 Apr 2028

Isaac Amoah asks to leave Gabala

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad10 Apr 2028

Ismahil Akinade in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Gabala this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad10 Apr 2028

Words at Gabala training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Filip Mladenović is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad10 Apr 2028

Jean wants to finish where he started

Every long career reaches the week the player starts thinking about the last one. He would like it to be at the club that first put him on a pitch, and Gabala now know that too.

Market10 Apr 2028

Gabala put Domi Jaurès Massoumou up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Domi Jaurès Massoumou may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

In brief

Back issues
88 Edition

The Gabala Gazette

3 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom3 Apr 2028

the manager is the new Gabala manager

“This is a club with real history, and I did not have to think about it for long.” The new manager takes charge with every slate wiped clean.

Squad3 Apr 2028

Mats Lillebo breaks a bone — 76 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 76 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market3 Apr 2028

Səlahət Ağayev is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Gabala is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Boardroom3 Apr 2028

Gabala to lose Səlahət Ağayev for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Səlahət Ağayev has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Squad3 Apr 2028

Tempers go at Gabala

Jubal was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad3 Apr 2028

Filip Mladenović falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

In brief

83 Edition

The Gabala Gazette

28 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces28 Feb 2028

The mood at Gabala has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Boardroom28 Feb 2028

The scrutiny sharpens at Gabala

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Gabala is running low.

Squad28 Feb 2028

Ismahil Akinade in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Gabala this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

  • Squad Words at Gabala training over how hard people work
  • Squad Emiljano Mihana out for 37 days
  • Squad 7 new faces, and Gabala are still learning each other
  • Market Jean placed on the list