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Edition
The Khazar Gazette
28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad28 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Khazar
Cəlal Hüseynov 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Khazar
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Shahriyar Nadirov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Emin Nazarov gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Emin Nazarov is on it.
In brief
- Market The Shahriyar Medvedev talk will not go away
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Ayaz Guliev
- Squad Rashad Dadashov is not doing himself any favours
- Squad Denis Moreau is out on the grass again