Ruslan Garayev

Central Midfielder - Inter
18 Sep 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for Ruslan Garayev

7 Edition

The Inter Herald

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Maksim Khalilzade

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

Player ratings

Miguel Terceros beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 28. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market

Ruslan Garayev hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Inter can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Lee Jenkins 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. Lee Jenkins has, at Inter, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Kauã Moraes

Inter asked and Cruzeiro said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

A falling-out at Inter

Ayaz Guliev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

A bad afternoon for Inter against Zira

0‑1 to Zira, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

Orkhan Abdullayev: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Squad

The formation has left Lee Jenkins behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Inter will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Inter Herald

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Maksim Khalilzade damages knee ligaments — 115 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 115 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.

Player ratings

Miguel Terceros runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 40. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Eddy Madatov asks to leave Inter

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

Inter say no — this time

The offer from Khazar for Rahid Sadygov was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Wallace Yan rejects the move

Inter had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Flamengo, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Ruslan Garayev 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 Inter this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Inter baulk at the price for Ümid Səmədov

Kapaz wanted more than $32.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Transfer targets

Bragantino tell Inter: Vanderlan is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Match

Tamkin Medvedev the difference as Inter beat Khazar

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Tamkin Medvedev. 1‑0 against Khazar, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

In brief