Araz Jafarov

Left Midfielder - Free Agent
2 Oct 2027
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Marked for Araz Jafarov

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The Ravan Chronicle

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad21 Sep 2026

Richard Garayev breaks a bone — 27 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 27 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match19 Sep 2026

Ravan taken apart

0‑3 to Zira, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Match21 Sep 2026

Every point is an argument now for Ravan

Position 9 and 1 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Match19 Sep 2026

The wait goes on for Ravan

7 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.

Match19 Sep 2026

5 matches without a goal for Ravan

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 5 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Match19 Sep 2026

Ravan are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 6 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Valery Kerzhakov in a row with a teammate

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.

Boardroom21 Sep 2026

Nobody left the Ravan dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

The dugout21 Sep 2026

Richard Khalilzade faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Richard Khalilzade after 0‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

In brief

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The Ravan Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market3 Aug 2026

Araz Jafarov 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Valery Kerzhakov wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Ravan hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Ravan

Valery Kerzhakov and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Santos tell Ravan: Miguel Terceros is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words at Ravan training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Afran Bayramov 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.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

A loan move for Nikola Ninković is in the works

Ravan have made the call to Sumgayit. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Ravan try to borrow Pedro Ataíde

APOEL have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

The dugout3 Aug 2026

Valery Kerzhakov knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Ravan, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market3 Aug 2026

Afran Garayev is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Ravan has been clear about where Afran Garayev stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief