Rayan Zekri

Attacking Midfielder (L) - AZ
1 Oct 2034
Sunday
Process

Marked for Rayan Zekri

410 Edition

The AZ Gazette

5 Jun 2034
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Rayan Zekri keeps the receipts

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

Squad

Matěj Šín in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AZ this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at AZ training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Patati 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.

In brief

Back issues
359 Edition

The AZ Gazette

13 Jun 2033
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

AZ up to position 2

67 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Squad

Rayan Zekri says AZ went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

Willem II come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and AZ did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Tempers go at AZ

Matěj Šín 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.

Squad

Patati falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Market

Willem II are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. AZ will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

In brief