Marked for Rahid Dadashov
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad31 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Rahid Dadashov out for 18 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Ravan will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match29 Aug 2026
Ravan taken apart
0‑8 to Sumgayit, 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Emin Ramazanov
34 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ravan lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Agropecuario Argentino is saying, and nobody at Ravan is enjoying the guessing.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Ravan
Erdem Akgun and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match29 Aug 2026
Nobody could stop scoring
8 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Ravan and Sumgayit in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Ravan asked and Deportivo Maldonado said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
An own goal to forget for Araz Jafarov
The one goal a footballer does not get to celebrate and does not get to forget either. His name is in the wrong column and nothing about it was meant.
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad24 Aug 2026
26 days out for Rahid Dadashov after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Ravan will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match22 Aug 2026
Chastening afternoon for Ravan
A 1‑5 beating by Neftchi was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Emin Ramazanov damages knee ligaments — 41 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 41 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad24 Aug 2026
8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Market24 Aug 2026
“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 ratings24 Aug 2026
Agil Amirguliyev, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 7.77
A mark of 7.77 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market24 Aug 2026
Khazar come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Ravan did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Trabzonspor, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
No thanks: Brian Oddei rejects the move
Ravan had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Noah, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
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Crisis
Squad17 Aug 2026
There were 13 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
33 days out for Rahid Dadashov after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Ravan will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match15 Aug 2026
A hiding for Ravan
Beaten 0‑6 by Qarabag, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Market17 Aug 2026
Ravan say no — this time
The offer from Sumgayit for Erdem Akgun was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market17 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Ravan
Erdem Akgun 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.
Match15 Aug 2026
6 goals as Ravan and Qarabag go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Ravan and Qarabag, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Ravan
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
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.