Kyle Spence

Left Midfielder - Karvan
24 Feb 2027
Wednesday
Process

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The Karvan Herald

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Karvan

9 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match

The goals have deserted Karvan

9 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Karvan can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad

Tempers go at Karvan

Thiago Rodrigues 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

Words at Karvan training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sávio 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Karvan against Turan Tovuz

0‑1 to Turan Tovuz, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Karvan

16 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout

Shahriyar Medvedev answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout

Karvan keep their word to Alassane Coulibaly

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

Squad

Home is on Eduardo Pletsch's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Karvan are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

In brief

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The Karvan Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A move Johnatan Cardoso 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. Johnatan Cardoso is living that version at Karvan, and it tends to show in the first month.

Market

Vüsal Məsimov turns Shimal down

“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.

Transfer targets

Karvan baulk at the price for Amir Ebrahimzadeh

Shafa wanted more than $610.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Squad

A falling-out at Karvan

Thiago Rodrigues and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at Karvan

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

Transfer targets

Door shut on Samuel Lobato

Karvan 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.

Squad

The formation has left Ədilxan Qarəhmedov behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Karvan will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

Player ratings

Kyle Spence beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market

Still no ink between Karvan and Thiago Rodrigues

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Karvan, another week without a signature from Thiago Rodrigues.

In brief

  • Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Vadim Abdullayev
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • Boardroom Karvan turn down the training-ground plan