Abror Karimov

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Marked for Abror Karimov

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The Bunyodkor Post

12 Apr 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad12 Apr 2032

A knee injury of the worst kind for Abdumavlon Abdujalilov

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

Market12 Apr 2032

Dostonbek Akhmedov asks to leave Bunyodkor

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad12 Apr 2032

Shohboz Umarov 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 Bunyodkor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad12 Apr 2032

Adama Cissé 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. Adama Cissé has, at Bunyodkor, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Match10 Apr 2032

Andijon take the points off Bunyodkor

Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad12 Apr 2032

Dmitry Pletnev 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 dugout12 Apr 2032

No hiding place for Matija Krivokapić

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Matija Krivokapić, and the manager let it.

Player ratings12 Apr 2032

A masterclass from Muhammadali G'iyosov

Marked 8.24 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

The dugout12 Apr 2032

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 2‑3 Sherzod Komilov left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief

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The Bunyodkor Post

12 Jan 2032
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad12 Jan 2032

Abdumavlon Abdujalilov damages knee ligaments — 124 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 124 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.

Market12 Jan 2032

Mirkomil Murodov agrees terms with Qizilqum

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Bunyodkor people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market12 Jan 2032

Ardit Peposhi 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 Bunyodkor can pretend not to have heard.

Squad12 Jan 2032

Shohboz Umarov 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 Bunyodkor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad12 Jan 2032

Words at Bunyodkor training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dilshod Saitov 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.

The dugout12 Jan 2032

Matija Krivokapić 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.

The dugout12 Jan 2032

Callum Jones gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Callum Jones is on it.

The dugout12 Jan 2032

Abror Sarimsoqov has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Abror Sarimsoqov has written the date down.

Market12 Jan 2032

Talks stall between Bunyodkor and Abror Karimov

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

In brief