The Ravan Chronicle
Match9 Oct 2027
11 matches without a win for Ravan
The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Ravan are no longer polite ones.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Emil Balayev keeps Ravan in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 11 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market11 Oct 2027
Noel Lundgren asks to leave Ravan
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Home is on Nikola Stanković's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Ravan are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Nikola Stanković wants to finish where he started
Every long career reaches the week the player starts thinking about the last one. He would like it to be at the club that first put him on a pitch, and Ravan now know that too.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Words at Ravan training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ruslan Ozobic 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.
Market11 Oct 2027
A long bet from Ravan on Cavid Ramazanov
He is 18, and nobody at Ravan signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Match9 Oct 2027
Ravan share the spoils with Inter
A 1‑1 draw with Inter leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Player ratings11 Oct 2027
Dimitrij Huseynov runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 9. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Market Still no ink between Ravan and Cavid Ramazanov
- Market Samir Mammadov leaves for nothing