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Edition
The AZAL Courier
28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market28 Dec 2026
Rufat Mammadov hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what AZAL can pretend not to have heard.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Roman Dolgikh 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 AZAL this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at AZAL training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Samuel Lobato 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.
In brief
- Loan watch Vugar Medvedev counts the days
- Squad Rufat Mammadov knocks on the manager's door
- Market AZAL put Roman Dolgikh up for sale
- Squad Questions about Samir Medvedev on the training pitch