The Ravan Chronicle
Match5 Jul 2027
Ravan sink to position 9
7 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Ravan
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
$50.0K settles it between the clubs for Maksim Medvedev
Inter have accepted the money. What Ravan do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Market5 Jul 2027
Samir Amirguliyev 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 Ravan can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
The paperwork begins on Emre Dervisoglu
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Ravan have done the hard part with Khazar, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Tempers go at Ravan
Rashad Guseynov 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.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Ravan rebuffed over Taofeek Ismaheel
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Qarabag have kept their man, and Ravan go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Words at Ravan training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Claudio Fernández 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Ravan count the cost of losing Ruslan Dadashov
42 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Kamran Nadirov
- Squad A step back for Kamran Nadirov at Ravan
- Boardroom Intake day at the Ravan academy