Marked for Maksim Sadygov
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Agil Garayev and Khazar agree another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Qara Ozobic 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 Khazar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Cəlal Hüseynov falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market10 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Namig Guseynov has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Khazar.
Market10 Aug 2026
A season-long audition: Besiktas still own him, but the shirt and the minutes are Khazar's to give. A loan is a bet both clubs believe they are winning.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match8 Aug 2026
Roman Zheleznyi wins it after the whistle should have gone
95 minutes played. Roman Zheleznyi found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Osipovichi went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Market10 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alexandr Puzach will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Lida the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Roman Babaev and Lida agree another 1 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Lida this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A move Maksim Sadygov 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. Maksim Sadygov is living that version at Lida, and it tends to show in the first month.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Roman Zheleznyi 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
A 1‑0 win over Osipovichi, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexandr Puzach, and the manager let it.