The Khazar Gazette
Match5 Sep 2026
Saïmon Bouabré leads the rout of Qarabag
3‑0, and Saïmon Bouabré took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Khazar tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Both of them Saïmon Bouabré's — 7.87
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 7.87, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Khazar
Chriso 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.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
Khazar supporters have found a favourite in Saïmon Bouabré
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Saïmon Bouabré has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Khazar training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Qara Medvedev is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Orkhan Ramazanov is the division's best young player this month
At 21 he has spent a month being better than everybody his age in the league, which is a different and harder thing than one good afternoon. Khazar will try very hard not to make too much of it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Bahlul Huseynov for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Khazar will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Qara Jafarov runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
The pass was always on for Rahid Ismayilov
Chances created: 11. Somebody has to open a door before anybody can walk through it, and he spent the afternoon opening doors.
In brief
- Player ratings Richard Nazarov changes it off the bench
- Market Khazar borrow Saïmon Bouabré
- Market Window shut, Qara Medvedev still here