Rashad Madatov

Defensive Midfielder - Khazar
13 Sep 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Rashad Madatov

4 Edition

The Khazar Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Mahir Ozobic settles it late for Khazar

The 86th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Mahir Ozobic decided nobody was going anywhere. Kapaz had no time left to answer.

Market

Inter come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Khazar did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Emin Ramazanov asks to leave Khazar

“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.

Transfer targets

Lorenzo Barrera turns down Khazar

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Agropecuario Argentino keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Transfer targets

No deal for Rachid Moumini at that price

Khazar offered $810.0K; Sumgayit said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Squad

Words exchanged at Khazar

Dimitrij Abdullayev 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 targets

An offer of $10.0K for Tamkin Nadirov

Khazar have gone to AZAL with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets

Khazar rebuffed over Leroy-Jacques Mickels

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Zira have kept their man, and Khazar go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

Khazar get the job done against Kapaz

A 2‑1 win over Kapaz, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

In brief

  • Player ratings Namig Nadirov was on a different afternoon to everybody else
  • Squad Khazar lose a squad player
  • The dugout The manager makes an example of Orkhan Nazarov
Back issues
3 Edition

The Khazar Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Agil Amirguliyev asks to leave Khazar

“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.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Lorenzo Barrera

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Khazar have done the hard part with Agropecuario Argentino, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Market

Business is business: Shahriyar Jafarov goes

Gabala paid $1.2M and Khazar took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Namig Nadirov

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A falling-out at Khazar

Dimitrij Abdullayev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

Inter watching Rashad Madatov

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Khazar have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Transfer targets

Khazar rebuffed over Emiliano Márquez

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Central Espanol have kept their man, and Khazar go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match

AZAL take the points off Khazar

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Maksim Amirguliyev

“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