The Inter Herald
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Cédric Badolo runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 33. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Mahir Dadashov breaks a bone — 50 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 50 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Bahlul Huseynov 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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Words at Inter training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vladislav Potapov 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.
The terraces13 Sep 2027
Inter supporters have found a favourite in Kalifala Doumbia
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Kalifala Doumbia 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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Rahid Garayev has improved at 24, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Match11 Sep 2027
Inter see off AZAL
Three points for Inter, 1‑0 the final word against AZAL in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Kalifala Doumbia was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.13. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Loan watch13 Sep 2027
Shahriyar Garayev has seen enough of Qarabag
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Inter, and 0 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.
In brief
- Market Rufat Dadashov told to find a new club
- Market Agil Ozobic leaves for nothing
- Market Afran Garayev leaves for nothing