The Karvan Herald
Market31 Aug 2026
Karvan turn down Imishli for Sam Durrant
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Karvan bid $800.0K for Isaque
The offer went to Guarani this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Marquinhos falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match29 Aug 2026
3 matches without a goal for Karvan
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Gavi Thompson was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Johnatan Cardoso
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market31 Aug 2026
DIFAI Agsu watching Vüsal Məsimov
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Karvan have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Kamran Ibrahimov dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody on the pitch touched Vadim Abdullayev
- The dugout Half-satisfied: Shahriyar Medvedev on the draw
- The dugout Johnatan Cardoso left out for tactical reasons at Karvan