Marked for Orkhan Dadashov
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Steady
Squad2 Nov 2026
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match31 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Kapaz do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Kapaz
Pachu 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 132% of everything Kapaz earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Rauf Hüseynli out for 21 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Kapaz will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Pachu 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 Kapaz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match24 Oct 2026
Whatever happens, Kapaz do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Kapaz training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Norbert Balogh 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Marked 7.93 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Kapaz had the best player on the pitch.
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Upbeat
Squad5 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Rauf Hüseynli out for 44 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Kapaz will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match3 Oct 2026
Orkhan Dadashov wins it after the whistle should have gone
94 minutes played. Orkhan Dadashov found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Ravan went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Kapaz may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Kapaz
Pachu 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Rahid Madatov is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
167% of the income goes out in wages at Kapaz
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
At 17 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match3 Oct 2026
Ravan made Kapaz work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
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Upbeat
Squad31 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Orkhan Ramazanov
19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Inter lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market31 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Najran have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Maksim Ismayilov. The answer from Inter has not changed — yet.
Market31 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Inter, and it is not being withdrawn.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Inter training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lapidar Lladrovci 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lapidar Lladrovci, and the manager let it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.70 on the card, and the Inter support went home talking about one name.
Match29 Aug 2026
Inter share the spoils with Khazar
A 1‑1 draw with Khazar leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad31 Aug 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
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Uneasy
Market31 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Kapaz, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Pachu 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 Kapaz this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Kapaz training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sadiq Şəfiyev 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dongo Cresus, and the manager let it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Məqsəd İsayev dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
14 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Match29 Aug 2026
No goals between Kapaz and Zira
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Zira will be the happier side with the point.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
12 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
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Triumph
Squad24 Aug 2026
Orkhan Ramazanov damages knee ligaments — 27 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 27 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market24 Aug 2026
Inter say no — this time
The offer from Kapaz for Samir Sheydaev 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Inter can pretend not to have heard.
Match22 Aug 2026
Gabala made Inter work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad24 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 Inter this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Maksim Ismayilov, and the manager let it.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.62 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Lapidar Lladrovci 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Everyone has stopped pretending: Kapaz will make the call about Orkhan Dadashov this week. Inter have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.