Samir Abdullayev

Central Midfielder - Sporting Baku
23 Nov 2030
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Marked for Samir Abdullayev

216 Edition

The Sporting Baku Sentinel

16 Sep 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match11 Sep 2030

The small margins put Sporting Baku out

Out, 0‑2 to Zagatala, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Market16 Sep 2030

Only the photograph left for Théo Jolivet

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Théo Jolivet will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Sporting Baku the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Match14 Sep 2030

7 matches without a win for Sporting Baku

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Sporting Baku are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings16 Sep 2030

The game went through Samir Abdullayev — 6.96

Marked 6.96 on 15 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.

Squad16 Sep 2030

Tempers go at Sporting Baku

Erik Gyurákovics 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.

Transfer targets16 Sep 2030

Door shut on Araz Abdullayev

Sporting Baku asked and Qarabag said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match14 Sep 2030

A bad afternoon for Sporting Baku against MOIK Baku

1‑2 to MOIK Baku, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout16 Sep 2030

No hiding place for Brian Pastenes

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

Squad16 Sep 2030

Words at Sporting Baku training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Josh Mullins 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.

In brief

Back issues
147 Edition

The Sporting Baku Sentinel

21 May 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad21 May 2029

The knee: Petru Costin out for 99 days

99 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Sporting Baku lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Boardroom21 May 2029

Pressure builds in the Sporting Baku boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Market21 May 2029

Patrik Hrnčiar 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 Sporting Baku can pretend not to have heard.

Squad21 May 2029

Words exchanged at Sporting Baku

Raphinha and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad21 May 2029

A row about effort at Sporting Baku

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Süleyman Əhmədov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market21 May 2029

The Szilárd Rostás question follows Sporting Baku around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Szilárd Rostás’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief