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The Neftchi Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Lautaro Bursich turns down Neftchi

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

Market10 Aug 2026

AZAL 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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Neftchi

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

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Door shut on Lukas Ramil Sauer

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

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Orkhan Abdullayev joins the Neftchi first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Orkhan Abdullayev 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

One of our own: Ruslan Khalilzade joins the Neftchi first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ruslan Khalilzade 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

Neftchi promote Eddy Abdullayev from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Eddy Abdullayev 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.

The dugout10 Aug 2026

Ľubomír Tupta 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.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

A loan move for Alexis Martínez is in the works

Neftchi have made the call to Almirante Brown. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief

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The Neftchi Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad3 Aug 2026

Vincent Aboubakar stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Vincent Aboubakar and Neftchi agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at Neftchi

Emin Mahmudov 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Emil Balayev is a Neftchi player again

He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.

Market3 Aug 2026

AZAL watching Andriy Shtogrin

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Neftchi have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Market3 Aug 2026

Neftchi and Vincent Aboubakar are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Market3 Aug 2026

Nobody at Neftchi has picked up the phone to Falaye Sacko

36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

In brief