Achraf Lazaar

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Marked for Achraf Lazaar

25 Edition

The MOIK Baku Gazette

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad18 Jan 2027

Novruz Məmmədov damages knee ligaments — 36 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 36 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market18 Jan 2027

Achraf Lazaar puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at MOIK Baku, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout18 Jan 2027

Warley says MOIK Baku went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Transfer targets18 Jan 2027

Sebastián Bedoya due for a MOIK Baku medical

Everything agreed with Manaus, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Home is on Péricles'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; MOIK Baku are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Tempers go at MOIK Baku

Ayaz Guliev 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 targets18 Jan 2027

Door shut on İsmayıl Zülfüqarlı

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

Squad18 Jan 2027

Péricles 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.

The dugout18 Jan 2027

Aivars Emsis 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.

In brief

Back issues
24 Edition

The MOIK Baku Gazette

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad11 Jan 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Novruz Məmmədov

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

Squad11 Jan 2027

A muscle injury sidelines Achraf Lazaar for 14 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. MOIK Baku will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Transfer targets11 Jan 2027

Gian Piaggio due for a MOIK Baku medical

Everything agreed with Colón, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Words exchanged at MOIK Baku

Ayaz Guliev 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.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Achraf Lazaar is slowing down

At 35, 3 points below where he was, and a body that has started charging interest. It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph on this page.

Boardroom11 Jan 2027

The numbers do not look good at MOIK Baku

Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.

The dugout11 Jan 2027

When it matters, Patrick Knoflach plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market11 Jan 2027

MOIK Baku put Achraf Lazaar up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Achraf Lazaar may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

The dugout11 Jan 2027

Balamirzə Soltanov knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Balamirzə Soltanov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

23 Edition

The MOIK Baku Gazette

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market4 Jan 2027

Novruz Məmmədov 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 MOIK Baku can pretend not to have heard.

Match4 Jan 2027

The season ends: position 2 for MOIK Baku

The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 33 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.

Player ratings4 Jan 2027

A brace, and Oliver Jürgens takes the afternoon — 8.71

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Oliver Jürgens provided it, and the 8.71 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

The dugout4 Jan 2027

Əli Həsənli says MOIK Baku went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Júnior Viçosa honoured for the season

The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. MOIK Baku had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.

Player ratings4 Jan 2027

Age has not caught David Schloffer yet — 8.16

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.16 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Words exchanged at MOIK Baku

Achraf Lazaar 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.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Júnior Viçosa is not the player he was

It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 37 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.

Match2 Jan 2027

MOIK Baku get the job done against Shimal

A 3‑2 win over Shimal, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

In brief