Makar Tokarev

Central Midfielder - AZAL
20 Aug 2026
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Marked for Makar Tokarev

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The AZAL Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad17 Aug 2026

The knee: Makar Tokarev out for 110 days

110 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. AZAL lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Amin Ramazanov stands alone

12 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Match15 Aug 2026

A hiding for AZAL

Beaten 0‑4 by Khazar, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Market17 Aug 2026

AZAL say no — this time

The offer from Neftchi for Dmitry Kostin 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 targets17 Aug 2026

No thanks: Ulises Vera rejects the move

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

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at AZAL

Amin Ramazanov and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Boardroom17 Aug 2026

5 academy players handed senior numbers at AZAL

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Gabala tell AZAL: Prince Owusu 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.

Market17 Aug 2026

Kapaz watching Cavid Abdullayev

The interest is real enough to have reached print. AZAL have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The AZAL Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad10 Aug 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Makar Tokarev

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

Squad10 Aug 2026

AZAL count the cost of losing Cavid Ramazanov

45 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Too dear: AZAL walk away from Rachid Moumini

$1.0M was the most the club would pay and Sumgayit were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Onuralp Çevikkan will not be coming to AZAL

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Trabzonspor is saying, and nobody at AZAL is enjoying the guessing.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Cavid Ramazanov signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Cavid Ramazanov commits to AZAL for another 2 years.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Rahid Medvedev 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 AZAL this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout10 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Agil Amirguliyev

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout10 Aug 2026

Cavid Ramazanov knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Cavid Ramazanov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market10 Aug 2026

Shahriyar Medvedev told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Shahriyar Medvedev has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at AZAL.

In brief

1 Edition

The AZAL Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad3 Aug 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Makar Tokarev

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

Squad3 Aug 2026

Tempers go at AZAL

Rahid Medvedev 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Eddy Ismayilov stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Eddy Ismayilov and AZAL agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad3 Aug 2026

A row about effort at AZAL

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Cavid Ramazanov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market3 Aug 2026

Sumgayit join the queue for Dimitrij Dadashov

Add another name to the list: Sumgayit have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Dimitrij Dadashov. The answer from AZAL has not changed — yet.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

AZAL try to borrow Luciano Arnijas

Maipú have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

In brief