Marked for Andersson Timaná
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad22 Feb 2027
Eddy Khalilzade damages knee ligaments — 78 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 78 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.
Squad22 Feb 2027
40 days out for Araz Nazarov after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Khazar will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad22 Feb 2027
A falling-out at Khazar
Guglielmo Mignani and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at Khazar training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joni Montiel 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.
Loan watch22 Feb 2027
“I did not go to Sumgayit to sit and watch. I want to come back to Khazar and fight for my place.” 8 appearances in 28 matches say the rest.
Market22 Feb 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Martino Marino’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Uneasy
Squad15 Feb 2027
85 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Khazar lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Araz Nazarov out for 48 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Khazar will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Khazar
Guglielmo Mignani and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Andersson Timaná arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Andersson Timaná has, at Khazar, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Inter have kept their man, and Khazar go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match15 Feb 2027
Continental football is in reach for Khazar
23 points from position 6. The title is somebody else’s business and the drop is somebody else’s problem; what is left is the argument about passports.
Market15 Feb 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Mahir Khalilzade’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Market15 Feb 2027
Khazar shop where it costs nothing
Andersson Timaná signs, and the fee column stays empty. Deals like this look small in July and clever by March — or they are never mentioned again.
Market15 Feb 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.