The Ravan Chronicle
Market31 Aug 2026
Dimitrij Nadirov hands in a written request
“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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Richard Amirguliyev runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Ravan training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ruslan 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Qara Jafarov 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Agil Mammadov gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match29 Aug 2026
No goals between Ravan and Sumgayit
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Sumgayit will be the happier side with the point.
In brief
- Squad A season on the outside for Nicklas Bärkroth
- Market The Kamran Ramazanov talk will not go away