The Sabail Post
Squad1 Feb 2027
Maicon damages knee ligaments — 37 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 37 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.
Market1 Feb 2027
Bahadur Həziyev puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Sabail, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Deadline passes with 6 signed and 0 gone
That is the business done at Sabail until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Kellyton wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Sabail can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Kamil Bialik gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Kamil Bialik has just signed for Sabail, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Sabail
Lucas Rangel 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 dugout1 Feb 2027
Rəhman Hacıyev gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market1 Feb 2027
Shafa are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Sabail will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Market1 Feb 2027
Rəhman Hacıyev placed on the list
Sabail have made Rəhman Hacıyev available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
In brief
- Market The Vüsal Şabanov question follows Sabail around
- The dugout Emil Qasımov has been promised minutes
- The dugout Rövlan Muradov knocks on the manager’s door