The Khazar Gazette
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
Nobody could get near Dimitrij Ozobic
Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market25 Oct 2027
Maximiliano Galván 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 The request is on a desk at Khazar, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
Agil Sheydaev, 33, rolls back the years — 8.83
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.83 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Kamran Guseynov 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 Khazar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match23 Oct 2027
Khazar get the job done against Kapaz
A 2‑0 win over Kapaz, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
Qara Sadygov was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.30. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
A masterclass from Kamran Guseynov
Marked 8.11 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Richard Medvedev dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Market25 Oct 2027
The Bohdan Boichuk talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Khazar know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
- Squad Maximiliano Galván left out for tactical reasons at Khazar
- Squad Tamkin Amirguliyev unhappy with how he is being used
- Market Cavid Khalilzade leaves for nothing