The Inter Herald
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Agil Huseynov
Successful dribbles: 56. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market17 Aug 2026
$850.0K — a new record at Inter
No footballer has ever cost this club more, and the number will be read out every time he misplaces a pass for the next two years.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Vugar Garayev keeps Inter in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A move Albi Doka would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Albi Doka is living that version at Inter, and it tends to show in the first month.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Kamran Ramazanov, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.12
A mark of 8.12 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Inter
Albi Doka 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Inter
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
Inter spend $850.0K on the signing the town wanted
It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $850.0K for Abbas Hüseynov, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Luka Krajnc 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.
In brief
- Match Inter get the job done against Sumgayit
- The terraces The crowd has taken to Rufat Garayev
- Market Eddy Abdullayev steps up from the Inter academy