The Khazar Gazette
Squad18 Jun 2029
Vyacheslav Purak damages knee ligaments — 66 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 66 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.
Market18 Jun 2029
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.
Squad18 Jun 2029
Kevin Medina 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.
Squad18 Jun 2029
Words at Khazar training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandr Pavlovets 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.
Squad18 Jun 2029
Agil Nazarov has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Khazar will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market18 Jun 2029
Dimitrij Nadirov linked with a move away
The name of Dimitrij Nadirov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Khazar say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
- Market The shop window has Ivan Uzunov in it
- Market Dimitrij Ozobic leaves for nothing
- Boardroom Khazar keep producing them