Guy Bloomer

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Ravan U20
30 Dec 2029
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Marked for Guy Bloomer

126 Edition

The Ravan Chronicle

25 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad25 Dec 2028

Dimitrij Khalilzade stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Dimitrij Khalilzade and Ravan agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad25 Dec 2028

A row about effort at Ravan

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dimitrij Khalilzade was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad25 Dec 2028

Words exchanged at Ravan

Shahriyar Khalilzade 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.

The dugout25 Dec 2028

Tamkin Medvedev gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Tamkin Medvedev is on it.

The dugout25 Dec 2028

No hiding place for Loris Armati

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Loris Armati, and the manager let it.

Market25 Dec 2028

The Rufat Ismayilov question follows Ravan around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Rufat Ismayilov’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

Back issues
106 Edition

The Ravan Chronicle

7 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad7 Aug 2028

The knee: Loris Armati out for 36 days

36 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Ravan lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad7 Aug 2028

Rufat Ismayilov is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Transfer targets7 Aug 2028

No thanks: Elvin Bədəlov rejects the move

Ravan had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Neftchi, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad7 Aug 2028

Words exchanged at Ravan

Araz Madatov 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.

Squad7 Aug 2028

Murad Musayev has improved at 34, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Market7 Aug 2028

A long bet from Ravan on Guy Bloomer

He is 20, and nobody at Ravan signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

In brief