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Market8 Jan 2029
Abror Karimov 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 Kokand 1912 can pretend not to have heard.
Market8 Jan 2029
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Kokand 1912 they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom8 Jan 2029
$172.4K on the table at Kokand 1912
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
Squad8 Jan 2029
Frans Putros 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.
Market8 Jan 2029
Experience through the door at Kokand 1912
Christian Sulemana arrives at 37 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
Market8 Jan 2029
The Nsana Simon talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Kokand 1912 know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Squad20 Nov 2028
“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.
Market20 Nov 2028
“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.
Squad20 Nov 2028
“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.
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Squad13 Nov 2028
The medical room confirms 45 days on the sidelines for Eldorbek Begimov, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market13 Nov 2028
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Kokand 1912 they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad13 Nov 2028
“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.
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Steady
Match4 Sep 2028
47 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Match2 Sep 2028
Still nobody has beaten Kokand 1912
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad4 Sep 2028
The manager makes an example of Andro Giorgadze
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad4 Sep 2028
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Shota Gvazava will call it something else in private.
Squad4 Sep 2028
The award is a small thing with a heavy meaning: for four weeks nobody in this division did his job better. Kokand 1912 have the trophy on a shelf and the player in the side.
Loan watch4 Sep 2028
“Another season, another badge, another dressing room to win over. I would like one pre-season at Kokand 1912 where somebody actually looks at me.” He belongs to Bukhara until the spell ends; the argument is with the club that owns him.
Boardroom4 Sep 2028
91% of the income goes out in wages at Kokand 1912
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Match2 Sep 2028
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Kokand 1912 will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
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Upbeat
Match19 Aug 2028
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Market21 Aug 2028
The fee is $270.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Lokomotiv drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Market21 Aug 2028
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Kokand 1912 is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match19 Aug 2028
A 2-1 win over Bukhara, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad21 Aug 2028
“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.
Squad21 Aug 2028
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Abror Karimov will call it something else in private.
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Squad14 Aug 2028
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match12 Aug 2028
A 2-0 win over Andijon, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Frans Putros left out for the big one
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Frans Putros will call it something else in private.
Squad14 Aug 2028
The manager makes an example of Abror Karimov
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Azizxon Isaqov knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Kokand 1912, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market14 Aug 2028
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Abror Karimov may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Market14 Aug 2028
The name of Yehor Kondratiuk keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Kokand 1912 say nothing, which says plenty.
Market14 Aug 2028
“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.
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Steady
Market1 May 2028
“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.
Squad1 May 2028
The manager makes an example of Frans Putros
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match29 Apr 2028
Andijon made Kokand 1912 work for it, but the scoreboard read 1-0 at the end and the table does not ask how.