Lukáš Ho Hung

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Mingachevir
17 Dec 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Lukáš Ho Hung

121 Edition

The Mingachevir Gazette

20 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Tempers go at Mingachevir

Lucas Rangel 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

A row about effort at Mingachevir

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

Looking ahead

A six-pointer for Mingachevir

DIFAI Agsu next, and both sides can do the sum. Win and the table looks different; lose and it looks the way everybody has been fearing.

Squad

Felipe wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Mingachevir know it.

The dugout

Samuel Vavrúš knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Mingachevir, and both men came out saying it was fine.

The dugout

No hiding place for Lukáš Ho Hung

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

Market

Elçin Mustafayev linked with a move away

The name of Elçin Mustafayev keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Mingachevir say nothing, which says plenty.

Market

Matheus Lima placed on the list

Mingachevir have made Matheus Lima available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

Squad

Lukáš Ho Hung has had enough of the bench

“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Mingachevir will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

In brief

Back issues
104 Edition

The Mingachevir Gazette

24 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Amil Yunanov

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

Market

Ruslan Hacıyev is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Mingachevir is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

The dugout

Emerson Vagalume frozen out at Mingachevir

This is not rotation. Emerson Vagalume has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Mingachevir is pretending otherwise.

Squad

Tempers go at Mingachevir

Lucas Rangel 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

Lukáš Ho Hung 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. Lukáš Ho Hung has, at Mingachevir, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Transfer targets

Mingachevir rebuffed over Pedro Cobra

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Qarabag have kept their man, and Mingachevir go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Elçin Mustafayev 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

Michele Cirasella attracts admirers

The name of Michele Cirasella has come up in conversations Mingachevir were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Boardroom

The Mingachevir debt reaches $10.6M

Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.

In brief