Qara Mammadov

Defensive Midfielder - Ravan
8 Sep 2026
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Qara Mammadov

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The Ravan Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Window shuts: 5 in, 1 out at Ravan

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 5 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Santiago Gauna rejects the move

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

Match

4 matches without a win for Ravan

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Ravan are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings

Rashad Ismayilov runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Words exchanged at Ravan

Rashad Ismayilov 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.

Transfer targets

Ravan rebuffed over Bruno Miño

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Almirante Brown have kept their man, and Ravan go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Mahir Abdullayev 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.

Squad

Qara Mammadov is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Qara Mammadov has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

Match

Honours even between Ravan and Gabala

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief

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The Ravan Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

13 saves: Javid Dadashov was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 13 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Market

The unthinkable, invoiced: Renat Sadygov sold

Khazar arrived with $1.4M and left with the best player in the building. The board will call it business; the queue at the ticket office will use other words.

Match

Ravan taken apart

0‑9 to Qarabag, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Market

Mahir Ramazanov turns Agia Napa down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

The terraces

A $1.4M sale, and a town that did not want it

Renat Sadygov has gone, the accounts have $1.4M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.

Squad

Tempers go at Ravan

Rashad Ismayilov 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.

Match

9 goals as Ravan and Qarabag go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 9 goals between Ravan and Qarabag, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Ravan

3 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Patricio Moyano

Ravan asked and Defensores said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

In brief