The Khazar Gazette
Squad31 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Araz Guseynov
85 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Khazar lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market31 Aug 2026
Khazar say no — this time
The offer from Slovacko for Renat Garayev 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Namig Sadygov 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 Khazar can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Beka Dartsmelia 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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.
Match29 Aug 2026
Khazar come up short against Inter
Inter left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Cavid Ozobic gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Agil Sadygov runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market31 Aug 2026
Khazar bring in Renato Nhaga on loan
A season-long audition: Galatasaray still own him, but the shirt and the minutes are Khazar's to give. A loan is a bet both clubs believe they are winning.
In brief
- Player ratings Kamran Ismayilov ran the game
- Player ratings The referee tires of Cəlal Hüseynov