Kamran Abdullayev

Goalkeeper - Shabana
18 Mar 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Kamran Abdullayev

122 Edition

The Shabana Post

27 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Shabana

Keith Imbali 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.

Squad

Kamran Abdullayev gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Kamran Abdullayev has just signed for Shabana, and for once the answer mattered.

Market

Shabana buy the years ahead of Sunday Awoniyi

He is 18, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Market

Shabana buy the years ahead of Kamran Abdullayev

He is 18, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Squad

Sunday Awoniyi signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sunday Awoniyi commits to Shabana for another 3 years.

Squad

No hiding place for Lazarazu Otieno

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Lazarazu Otieno, and the manager let it.

In brief

Back issues
76 Edition

The AZAL Courier

10 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Mahir Ozobic damages knee ligaments — 42 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 42 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.

Squad

Savely Anisimov keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” AZAL may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Match

AZAL refuse to drop out of the race

Position 2, 36 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Market

Only the photograph left for Ruslan Əliyev

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ruslan Əliyev will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AZAL the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at AZAL

Cəlal Hüseynov 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.

Squad

Savely Anisimov 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