The Ravan Chronicle
Market24 Aug 2026
Fedot Lipatov agrees terms with Shinnik
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Ravan people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market24 Aug 2026
Ravan say no — this time
The offer from Gabala for Bogdan Mukhin was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market24 Aug 2026
Namig Amirguliyev 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Zé Lucas will not be coming to Ravan
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Cruzeiro is saying, and nobody at Ravan is enjoying the guessing.
Market24 Aug 2026
Araz Guseynov attracts admirers
The name of Araz Guseynov has come up in conversations Ravan were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Ravan rebuffed over Lucca
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Ceará have kept their man, and Ravan go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Ravan
Dimitrij Ramazanov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Grigory Biryukov
“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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Ravan training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Yusuf Sahin 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.
In brief
- Match Ravan rescue it on 87 minutes
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Savely Laptev
- Match Honours even between Ravan and Neftchi