Marked for Shahriyar Medvedev
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market1 Feb 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ravan can pretend not to have heard.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad1 Feb 2027
The medical room confirms 32 days on the sidelines for Shahriyar Medvedev, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad1 Feb 2027
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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Words at Ravan training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rufat Sheydaev 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.
Loan watch1 Feb 2027
“I did not go to Kapaz to sit and watch. I want to come back to Ravan and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 25 matches say the rest.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match9 Sep 2026
Ravan bow out of the cup
Kapaz go through and Ravan go home, 1‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market14 Sep 2026
“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.
Match12 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Ravan
6 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Maksim Ismayilov, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.62
A mark of 7.62 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ravan leaking at the back
6 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
Squad14 Sep 2026
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.
Match12 Sep 2026
6 goals as Ravan and Khazar go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Ravan and Khazar, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Match12 Sep 2026
A bad afternoon for Ravan against Khazar
2‑4 to Khazar, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Eddy Ozobic 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.