The Ravan Chronicle
Squad5 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Rashad Nadirov
40 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Age has not caught Kamran Nadirov yet — 7.87
At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.87 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match3 Oct 2026
At last: Ravan win one
7 matches without a win, and then this, against AZAL. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Salim Hashimov 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Ravan training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dragoljub Savić 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Ravan get the job done against AZAL
A 1‑0 win over AZAL, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Afran Sheydaev signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Afran Sheydaev and Ravan agree another 1 years.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Renat Dadashov kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Richard Medvedev
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Richard Medvedev, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Market No place for Evgeny Savrasov in the plan
- Market Talks stall between Ravan and Salman Ələsqərov
- The dugout No place in the plan for Agil Huseynov