The Khazar Gazette
Squad23 Nov 2026
11 saves: Mahir Bayramov was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 11 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market23 Nov 2026
Eddy Mammadov 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 Khazar can pretend not to have heard.
Match21 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for Khazar
4 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
The goals have deserted Khazar
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Khazar can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Khazar
Mahir Bayramov 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
Khazar come up short against Sumgayit
Sumgayit left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
Qara Nazarov faces the questions
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Qara Nazarov after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Khazar
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dimitrij Amirguliyev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Samir Jafarov
“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.
In brief
- The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Maksim Amirguliyev's mistake
- The dugout A promise honoured at Khazar
- Player ratings Dimitrij Amirguliyev beats them one at a time