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206 Edition

The Zira Herald

8 Jul 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom8 Jul 2030

Zira put Rufat Khalilzade on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Boardroom8 Jul 2030

Crisis meeting at Zira

The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.

Squad8 Jul 2030

Ruan Renato: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Zira have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market8 Jul 2030

Marco Vettor asks to leave Zira

“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.

Squad8 Jul 2030

Issa Djibrilla signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Issa Djibrilla and Zira agree another 2 years.

Squad8 Jul 2030

Tempers go at Zira

Issa Djibrilla 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.

Squad8 Jul 2030

Words at Zira training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Qismət Alıyev 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.

Boardroom8 Jul 2030

$552.3K of the owner's money at Zira

The shortfall was covered from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be relieved and entitled to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings usually arrive together.

Boardroom8 Jul 2030

Wages eat 111% of everything Zira earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

In brief

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202 Edition

The Zira Herald

10 Jun 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad10 Jun 2030

Alioune Sylla keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Zira may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad10 Jun 2030

Tempers go at Zira

Issa Djibrilla 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.

Squad10 Jun 2030

Words at Zira training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ismayil Ibrahimli 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 Jun 2030

The manager makes an example of Abdul Aziz Batibie

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Boardroom10 Jun 2030

Wages eat 105% of everything Zira earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Market10 Jun 2030

Salim Hashimov is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Zira has been clear about where Salim Hashimov stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief

132 Edition

The Zira Herald

5 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad5 Feb 2029

A knee injury of the worst kind for Guima

98 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Zira lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad5 Feb 2029

Brahim Konaté breaks a bone — 90 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 90 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market5 Feb 2029

Martins Júnior 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 Zira can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom5 Feb 2029

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Zira

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Market5 Feb 2029

Hacıağa Hacılı has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Zira they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad5 Feb 2029

Giorgi Papunashvili signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Giorgi Papunashvili and Zira agree another 2 years.

In brief