The AZAL Courier
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ali Topcu signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ali Topcu and AZAL agree another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at AZAL
Ali Topcu 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 targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $14.0K for Sənan Muradlı
AZAL have gone to Sumgayit with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at AZAL
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Afran Guseynov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Zira tell AZAL: Hacıağa Hacılı is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad10 Aug 2026
AZAL count the cost of losing Agil Medvedev
16 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
In brief
- The dugout Ali Topcu knocks on the manager's door
- The dugout Ruslan Dadashov gets it from the manager
- Market Cavid Khalilzade leaves for nothing
- Looking ahead AZAL travel to Khazar