Marked for Rustam Turdimurodov
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Steady
Market23 Nov 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Asadbek Habibullayev will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Andijon the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Andijon
Martin Boakye 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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Imeda Ashortia, and the manager let it.
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Steady
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Andijon may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Martin Boakye 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Imeda Ashortia 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.
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Steady
Squad16 Nov 2026
The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Pakhtakor had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Vladimir Nazarov 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Pakhtakor
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Bashar Resan was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Vladimir Nazarov's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Morteza Pouraliganji, and the manager let it.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
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.
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Upbeat
Market10 Aug 2026
Shakhter come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Andijon did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Andijon
Martin Boakye 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Rustam Turdimurodov has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Timur Suyunov 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
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Islom Nematov 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Abdulla Masharipov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Match8 Aug 2026
Andijon get the job done against AGMK
A 1‑0 win over AGMK, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
7.94, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Andijon had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
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Crisis
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Dragan Ćeran and Andijon agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Nemanja Ćalasan 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Andijon and Bunyodkor in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Andijon have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Dragan Ćeran 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Shakhtar have kept their man, and Andijon go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ibrohim Yo'ldoshev, and the manager let it.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“74 caps was 74 more than the boy who started ever expected.” At 36 he has stepped away from the national side and has not stepped away from Andijon.