The Ravan Chronicle
Match5 Apr 2027
Ravan are in real trouble now
Position 10, 13 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market5 Apr 2027
Eddy Ismayilov 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 The request is on a desk at Ravan, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Namig Medvedev: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Ravan have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Samir Huseynov 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 Ravan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Apr 2027
A move Mustafa Doğru would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Mustafa Doğru is living that version at Ravan, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad5 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Davit Jikia
“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.
In brief
- Market The Danny Amankwaa question follows Ravan around
- Market Ravan and Yusuf Saitoğlu are talking past each other
- Market Mustafa Doğru joins Ravan on a free