The Inter Herald
Squad31 Aug 2026
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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.
Market31 Aug 2026
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.
Match29 Aug 2026
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 ratings31 Aug 2026
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.
Match29 Aug 2026
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 ratings31 Aug 2026
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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 ratings31 Aug 2026
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.
In brief
- Squad Inter pick somebody else ahead of Javid Abdullayev
- Player ratings Afran Nazarov runs at them all day
- Market The Prokhor Pluzhnikov story refuses to die