The Ravan Chronicle
Squad5 Apr 2027
66 days out for Abbas Hüseynov after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Ravan will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Emin Mammadov damages knee ligaments — 59 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 59 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market5 Apr 2027
Richard Dadashov hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ravan can pretend not to have heard.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Benjamín Durán gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Benjamín Durán has just signed for Ravan, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Words at Ravan training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Chriso 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.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
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In brief
- Loan watch Dimitrij Ismayilov wants to come home
- The dugout Richard Dadashov knocks on the manager's door
- Market Ravan pick up Benjamín Durán for nothing
- The dugout Salman Ələsqərov keeps his manager's vote