The Ravan Chronicle
Market19 Aug 2030
Ravan turn down Neftchi for Richard Ramazanov
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad19 Aug 2030
Richard Ramazanov keeps Ravan in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market19 Aug 2030
Araz Khalilzade 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 Ravan can pretend not to have heard.
Squad19 Aug 2030
Elvin Camalov 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 Ravan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match17 Aug 2030
Rahid Ramazanov sends Ravan past Neftchi
It finished 2‑1, and it was Rahid Ramazanov’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Ravan.
Squad19 Aug 2030
Ravan count the cost of losing Vladimir Pochechura
50 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Player ratings19 Aug 2030
One of those days for Rahid Ramazanov
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.72, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings19 Aug 2030
Nobody could get near Richard Nadirov
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings19 Aug 2030
The one thing Shahriyar Medvedev could not do
Shots: 8, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
In brief
- Squad Shahriyar Medvedev knocks on the manager’s door
- Market Dimitrij Khalilzade leaves for nothing
- Market Tamkin Amirguliyev leaves for nothing