The Gabala Gazette
Match30 Nov 2030
Chastening afternoon for Gabala
A 1‑5 beating by Zira was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
The dugout2 Dec 2030
Diogo Madaleno: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Gabala have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings2 Dec 2030
A first appearance Denis Patrick Aevoaei will want to forget — 5.80
Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.80, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.
Match30 Nov 2030
Gabala leaking at the back
6 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Market2 Dec 2030
Maksym Boiko has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Gabala they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match30 Nov 2030
6 goals as Gabala and Zira go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Gabala and Zira, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad2 Dec 2030
Tempers go at Gabala
Aftandil Arixov 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.
Squad2 Dec 2030
Ľubomír Tupta 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.
The dugout2 Dec 2030
The manager makes an example of Shahriyar Jafarov
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Bruno Silva at his very best
- Boardroom Inquest at Gabala
- Squad Home is on Ola Østraat's mind