Shahriyar Abdullayev

Central Defender - Free Agent
27 Nov 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Shahriyar Abdullayev

50 Edition

The Khazar Gazette

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Christopher Luhaka damages knee ligaments — 81 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 81 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.

Market

Renat Garayev has said yes to Inter

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Khazar have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market

Shahriyar Abdullayev puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Khazar, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Words exchanged at Khazar

Maksim Amirguliyev 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.

Squad

Words at Khazar training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cəlal Hüseynov 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.

Squad

Home is on Sebastián Sanabria's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Khazar are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Transfer targets

Lecce tell Khazar: Nemanja Milojević is not for sale

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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Yordi López

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Yordi López, and the manager let it.

Transfer targets

Khazar ask about Samuel Lobato

A loan enquiry to Qarabag: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

In brief

Back issues
16 Edition

The Khazar Gazette

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Bruno damages knee ligaments — 111 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 111 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.

Squad

Cavid Nadirov breaks a bone — 131 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 131 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Cəlal Hüseynov falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

Shahriyar Garayev 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 Khazar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Nicolò Serra

“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.

The dugout

Khazar keep their word to Shahriyar Abdullayev

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Looking ahead

Maksim Amirguliyev faces his old club

Inter next, and one man in the Khazar dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

Market

The Vüqar Mustafayev question follows Khazar around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Vüqar Mustafayev’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout

Rashad Ozobic knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Rashad Ozobic trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief