Marked for Bahlul Jafarov
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Uneasy
Market4 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Egnatia Rrogozhinë can pretend not to have heard.
Squad4 Jan 2027
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Egnatia Rrogozhinë have had the benefit of it.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Fernando Medeiros 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.
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Crisis
Squad16 Nov 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 Egnatia Rrogozhinë this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Egnatia Rrogozhinë training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Guillem Jaime 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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 43. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Bahlul Jafarov gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Bahlul Jafarov has just signed for Egnatia Rrogozhinë, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Fernando Medeiros 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Guillem Jaime 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
A mark of 7.91, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
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Crisis
Squad9 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Emin Medvedev out for 50 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Inter will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Inter
Dimitrij Bayramov 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
A bad afternoon for Inter against Zira
0‑2 to Zira, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad9 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Kamran Madatov
“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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Rufat Garayev 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.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
“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.