The Ravan Chronicle
Boardroom5 Jun 2028
Ravan spell it out for Javid Madatov
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Javid Madatov has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Squad5 Jun 2028
A move Benjamin Jones 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. Benjamin Jones is living that version at Ravan, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad5 Jun 2028
Alfredo signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alfredo and Ravan agree another 1 years.
Squad5 Jun 2028
Words at Ravan training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Zakaria Sawo 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.
Squad5 Jun 2028
Alfredo 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.
Market5 Jun 2028
Geraldo Bajrami is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Ravan has been clear about where Geraldo Bajrami stands, which is more than many ever get.
Market5 Jun 2028
Ravan buy the years ahead of Benjamin Jones
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.
Boardroom5 Jun 2028
$617.1K taken back off the Ravan table
What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.
Market5 Jun 2028
Gabriele Scozzari Baio joins Ravan on a free
No fee and no drama: Gabriele Scozzari Baio has signed at Ravan, and the wage bill is the only line that moved.
In brief
- Market Ravan pick up Joseph Gyan for nothing
- Boardroom Ravan answer back