Stipe Perica

Striker - Neftchi
22 Sep 2026
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Marked for Stipe Perica

6 Edition

The Neftchi Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad7 Sep 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ibrohimhalil Yo'ldoshev

16 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Neftchi lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

A brace, and Zoran Marušić takes the afternoon — 9.02

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Zoran Marušić provided it, and the 9.02 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A one-man rearguard from Botirali Ergashev

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market7 Sep 2026

O'tkir O'ktamov asks to leave Neftchi

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Deadline passes with 13 signed and 10 gone

That is the business done at Neftchi until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Match5 Sep 2026

Neftchi find a way past Nasaf

Nasaf made Neftchi work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Ratinho did the work nobody counts — 7.99

11 combined actions and 7.99. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.

The dugout7 Sep 2026

Ikromjon Aliboev gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A step back for Xurshid G'iyosov at Neftchi

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

In brief

  • Squad Words at Neftchi training over how hard people work
  • Player ratings Stipe Perica runs at them all day
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
Back issues
2 Edition

The Neftchi Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match8 Aug 2026

Neftchi tear Obod apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Obod, and it could have been more.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

A brace, and Stipe Perica takes the afternoon — 8.83

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Stipe Perica provided it, and the 8.83 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

A defender's goal wins it for Neftchi — 7.43

1 for Ratinho, marked 7.43, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Khalfan Mabkhout turns down Neftchi

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Al Ahli keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Neftchi

Koffi Kouao 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

Abrorbek Ismoilov attracts admirers

The name of Abrorbek Ismoilov has come up in conversations Neftchi were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Amir Suyunov joins the Neftchi first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Amir Suyunov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market10 Aug 2026

Odil Mirzaev steps up from the Neftchi academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Odil Mirzaev has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Rustam Tukhtasinov joins the Neftchi first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Rustam Tukhtasinov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief