The Khazar Gazette
Squad27 Sep 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Agil Nadirov
39 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Khazar lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Cəlal Hüseynov: 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.
Match25 Sep 2027
The wait goes on for Khazar
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Tempers go at Khazar
Erkan Ozan 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.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Rashad Jafarov falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
A masterclass from Rashad Jafarov
Marked 8.10 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match25 Sep 2027
Rashad Jafarov answers Gabala immediately
Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Rashad Jafarov had Khazar level again within 1 minutes, and Gabala never got to play with a lead at all.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Both jobs done by Daniel Tarazona — 7.66
A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 9 actions, 7.66, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Orkhan Nadirov runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Match Khazar share the spoils with Gabala
- Market Araz Ismayilov leaves for nothing
- Market Namig Amirguliyev leaves for nothing