The AZAL Courier
Match14 Jun 2027
Every point is an argument now for AZAL
Position 8 and 15 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Market14 Jun 2027
Tamkin Khalilzade 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 The request is on a desk at AZAL, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
No thanks: Lorenzo Couture rejects the move
AZAL had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Penarol, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Tempers go at AZAL
Nadir Orucov 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 targets14 Jun 2027
Qarabag tell AZAL: Bədavi Hüseynov 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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
AZAL lose Cavid Sheydaev
14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Rashad Ismayilov 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.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
A loan move for Lautaro Dufur is in the works
AZAL have made the call to Rentistas. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Vugar 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
- Squad Country calls for Rufat Garayev
- The dugout Richard Jafarov knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Samir Ramazanov