The Qarabag Chronicle
Squad7 Sep 2026
The knee: Diego Rosa out for 33 days
33 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Qarabag lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 20 in, 6 out at Qarabag
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 20 arrived, 6 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
The Qarabag board want somebody sold
The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.
Market7 Sep 2026
Marko Janković raises the bar for Qarabag
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Qarabag heard it as anything else.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Joaquín Freitas is a medical away from Qarabag
The deal with Flamengo is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The window shuts on the Zoran Marušić deal
Qarabag ran out of time with Neftchi. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Júnior Viçosa gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad7 Sep 2026
13 new faces, and Qarabag are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Pedro Bicalho makes the team of the month
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
In brief
- Squad Qarabag take the armband off Marko Janković
- Market Qarabag bring in an old head
- Market Matheus Silva placed on the list