Prokhor Pluzhnikov

Left Midfielder - Inter
6 Sep 2026
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Marked for Prokhor Pluzhnikov

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The Inter Herald

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Afran Khalilzade breaks a bone — 94 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 94 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Tamkin Jafarov keeps Inter in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

Richard Jafarov 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.

Match

Inter come up short against Khazar

Khazar left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Kamran Medvedev at his very best

Marked 8.16. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Inter.

Match

No time for Khazar to settle

The goal that put Khazar ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Inter equalised, 4 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.

Player ratings

Prokhor Pluzhnikov ran the game

Chances created: 13. Not on the scoresheet and not remotely anonymous — a passing performance that pulled a defence apart without leaving a mark on the column that gets read.

Squad

The manager has not finished forgetting Deniz Ozdemir's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Player ratings

One moment undoes Deniz Ozdemir

There was one mistake and it ended in the net. Defenders are judged on the worst thing they did rather than on the eighty-nine minutes either side of it, which is unfair and is also the job.

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The Inter Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Prokhor Pluzhnikov runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 36. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Afran Khalilzade breaks a bone — 110 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 110 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

A 2-goal lead gone for Inter

It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Sumgayit kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Inter will be asked about the last half hour all week.

Squad

A move Pijus Širvys would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Pijus Širvys is living that version at Inter, and it tends to show in the first month.

Market

Vugar Dadashov’s move to Kapaz falls through

The deal that would have taken Vugar Dadashov to Kapaz has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Inter with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

Squad

Cəlal Hüseynov 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.

Market

The Antonio Fabbri conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Hellas Verona will make the call about Antonio Fabbri this week. Inter have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Inter

4 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Market

Dimitrij Nazarov steps up from the Inter academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Dimitrij Nazarov has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief