The Sumgayit Courier
Squad16 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Bendrix Parra
88 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Sumgayit lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The terraces16 Aug 2027
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 8 of the 30 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Match14 Aug 2027
No end in sight to Sumgayit's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Sumgayit has to find a result from somewhere.
Market16 Aug 2027
Sumgayit turn down Inter for Bendrix Parra
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Víctor Barrera at Sumgayit
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Víctor Barrera is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market16 Aug 2027
Diogo Farinha is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Sumgayit is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Rachid Moumini 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 Sumgayit this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom16 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Sumgayit
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Mikhail Kovalenko 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 take the points off Sumgayit
- Player ratings Ronaldo Vásquez runs at them all day
- Market Sumgayit promote Cavid Khalilzade from within