Marked for Kamran Medvedev
From our football correspondent
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.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.08 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Neftchi may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match24 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Neftchi
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Kenan Pirić 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kenan Pirić, and the manager let it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Imad Faraj 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Neftchi and Ravan take a point apiece
It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
There was one mistake and it ended in the net. Defenders are judged on the worst thing they did rather than on the eighty-nine minutes either side of it, which is unfair and is also the job.
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Upbeat
Squad12 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Emin Medvedev out for 82 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
4‑0, and Shahriyar Amirguliyev took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Inter tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.78, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.06, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad12 Oct 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Yiğit Efe Demir 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 watch12 Oct 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 9 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Cəlal Hüseynov
“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.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Agil Sheydaev spends the afternoon fouling
Fouls conceded: 6. He was booked, he was fortunate not to be booked twice, and the referee had run out of patience long before the end.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Emin Medvedev out for 112 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.
Squad14 Sep 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.
Squad14 Sep 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Sep 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.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I watch every Inter game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Neftchi runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dimitrij Bayramov commits to Inter for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Shahriyar Nazarov 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
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Inter have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Market10 Aug 2026
Namig Sheydaev is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Inter has been clear about where Namig Sheydaev stands, which is more than many ever get.