The AZAL Courier
Market25 Jan 2027
Tamkin Jafarov puts it in writing
“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 The request is on a desk at AZAL, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Vladimir Lisitsin turns down AZAL
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Obod keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
AZAL rebuffed over Sergey Muradyan
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Noah have kept their man, and AZAL go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A row about effort at AZAL
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Vugar Jafarov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Tempers go at AZAL
Qara Ozobic 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
AZAL lose Agil Medvedev
26 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
AZAL ask about Kénan Glougbé
A loan enquiry to Djoliba: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
AZAL try to borrow Ahmet Doğan Yıldırım
Trabzonspor have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Maksim Sheydaev gets it from the manager
“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.
In brief
- Market The Qara Ozobic talk will not go away
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Cavid Mammadov
- Squad a squad player is out on the grass again