Gleb Semak

Goalkeeper - Khazar
11 Mar 2029
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Marked for Gleb Semak

66 Edition

The Khazar Gazette

1 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings1 Nov 2027

Maksim Ismayilov runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 49. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match30 Oct 2027

9 matches without a win for Khazar

The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Khazar are no longer polite ones.

Squad1 Nov 2027

Tempers go at Khazar

Maksim Ismayilov 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.

Squad1 Nov 2027

Words at Khazar training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pijus Širvys 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.

Player ratings1 Nov 2027

Ninety minutes of Agil Mammadov at his very best

Marked 8.23. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Khazar.

Player ratings1 Nov 2027

Araz Nazarov was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.00. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad1 Nov 2027

Gleb Semak 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.

Market1 Nov 2027

Still no ink between Khazar and Namig Guseynov

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Khazar, another week without a signature from Namig Guseynov.

Loan watch1 Nov 2027

Richard Dadashov wants to come home

“I did not go to Istanbulspor to sit and watch. I want to come back to Khazar and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 14 matches say the rest.

In brief

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58 Edition

The AZAL Courier

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad6 Sep 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Juan Cámara

112 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. AZAL lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match4 Sep 2027

No end in sight to AZAL's wait for a win

8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at AZAL has to find a result from somewhere.

The terraces6 Sep 2027

AZAL sell a favourite for $170.0K

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Gleb Semak was one of the reasons people came, and $170.0K does not replace that by itself.

Boardroom6 Sep 2027

An order from above at AZAL: somebody has to go

Balance sheets do not care about form or about who the manager was planning to build around. The board have decided a sale is required, and the only question left is which name ends up carrying it.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Real improvement from Oscar Ruiz at AZAL

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Oscar Ruiz is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Market6 Sep 2027

As if he never left: Orkhan Jafarov returns

Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Orkhan Jafarov is a AZAL player again, and the town has its story of the summer.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Tempers go at AZAL

Juan Cámara 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.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Ruslan Dadashov has improved at 26, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Market6 Sep 2027

Gleb Semak moves on

Khazar pay $170.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

In brief

58 Edition

The Khazar Gazette

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad6 Sep 2027

Suhrobjon Sultonov: 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.” Khazar have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Ruslan Ozobic is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Market6 Sep 2027

Khazar pay AZAL $170.0K for a proper upgrade

AZAL did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $170.0K for Gleb Semak, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Tempers go at Khazar

Maksim Ismayilov 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.

The terraces6 Sep 2027

Khazar spend $170.0K on the signing the town wanted

It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $170.0K for Gleb Semak, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.

Match4 Sep 2027

A bad afternoon for Khazar against Qarabag

0‑2 to Qarabag, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Bahlul Bayramov has improved at 29, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Market6 Sep 2027

Dimitrij Medvedev told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Dimitrij Medvedev has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Khazar.

Market6 Sep 2027

Khazar and Namig Guseynov are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief