Edvin Kuč

Defensive Midfielder - Shahdag Qusar
31 Aug 2026
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Process

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The Neftchi Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Lokomotivi come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Neftchi did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Ibrahima Wadji

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

Market

Eyes on Jordan Rezabala again

The phone has started ringing about Jordan Rezabala again, and this time the name on the line is Zagatala. Neftchi are listening politely and promising nothing.

Market

Araz Abdullayev steps up from the Neftchi academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Araz Abdullayev 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.

Market

One of our own: Dimitrij Ismayilov joins the Neftchi first team

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

Squad

Neftchi are still strangers to each other

8 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Squad

The formation has left Alassane Coulibaly behind

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

Transfer targets

Neftchi try to borrow Gui Negão

Corinthians have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

The dugout

Ľubomír Tupta asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

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The Shahdag Qusar Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Samir Məhərrəmli arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Samir Məhərrəmli has, at Shahdag Qusar, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad

Kamil Hüseynov in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Shahdag Qusar this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Shahdag Qusar rebuffed over Nicat Mehbaliyev

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sabah have kept their man, and Shahdag Qusar go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Elşən Abdullayev 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.

Market

Shahdag Qusar promote Mahir Dadashov from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mahir Dadashov has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Emin Sadygov steps up from the Shahdag Qusar academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Emin Sadygov 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.

Market

Shahdag Qusar promote Qara Ismayilov from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Qara Ismayilov has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Ruslan Bayramov steps up from the Shahdag Qusar academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ruslan Bayramov 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.

Squad

No place for Kamil Hüseynov in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Shahdag Qusar are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

In brief