Rian Islomov

Defensive Midfielder - AGMK
12 Nov 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Rian Islomov

67 Edition

The AGMK Courier

8 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Words exchanged at AGMK

Behruzbek Asqarov 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 dugout

Nikola Trujić 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 Nikola Trujić is on it.

Squad

Uroš Kojić remains an outsider

A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at AGMK would admit. It shows on Saturdays.

Market

The Uroš Kojić story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Uroš Kojić signs something — a contract at AGMK or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Loan watch

Naoaki Senaga has made Shortan’s shirt his own

30 starts now, an average of 7.03, and the team sheet at Shortan has stopped being a question. Exactly what everybody signed up for.

Loan watch

4 clean sheets on loan for Hamidullo Abdunabiyev

15 appearances at Andijon and the goals have stopped going in. AGMK lent out a goalkeeper and are watching somebody else’s season get better every week.

The dugout

Nikola Trujić knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Nikola Trujić trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Squad

Muhammadali Rakibov finally belongs at AGMK

The language has come, the shrug has gone, and he argues in training like a man who expects to be here next year. None of it shows up on a fee and all of it shows up on the pitch.

Squad

Extra work for Rian Islomov at AGMK

The coaching staff have set Rian Islomov something separate to do. Whether it is a weakness being addressed or a strength being sharpened, nobody outside the building will know until it shows up on a Saturday.

In brief

Back issues
64 Edition

The AGMK Courier

18 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

AGMK finish in position 9

37 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.

Market

Rian Islomov puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at AGMK, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Ibroxim Numonov: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” AGMK have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Match

No end in sight to AGMK's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at AGMK has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Giorgi Papava 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 AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Behruzbek Asqarov 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.

Match

Sogdiana take the points off AGMK

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

AGMK lose Shohruh Shomurodov

19 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

The dugout

Eldor Ismailov answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

In brief

60 Edition

The AGMK Courier

20 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Nikola Trujić keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” AGMK may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings

Behruzbek Asqarov beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

A falling-out at AGMK

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

Squad

Jaloliddin Masharipov signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jaloliddin Masharipov and AGMK agree another 3 years.

Match

AGMK share the spoils with Mashal

A 1‑1 draw with Mashal leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Squad

The formation has left Anvarjon Jo'rayev behind

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

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Eldor Ismailov chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Rian Islomov

“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.

The dugout

No place in the plan for Uroš Kojić

The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

In brief

47 Edition

The AGMK Courier

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Ali Abdurahmonov breaks a bone — 14 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 14 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

AGMK bow out of the cup

Lokomotiv go through and AGMK go home, 1‑4 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Market

AGMK say no — this time

The offer from Obod for Avazbek O'lmasaliyev was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

The terraces

AGMK are taken apart by Lokomotiv — and the town wants answers

It finished 1-4. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.

Match

6 matches without a win for AGMK

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around AGMK are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings

Rian Islomov ran the middle of the pitch — 6.82

He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 15 combined actions and a mark of 6.82, and not one of them will make a highlights package.

Squad

Behruzbek Asqarov 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 targets

Door shut on Sardorbek Hoshimov

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

Match

Halfway: AGMK sit in position 10

17 points at the turn. The first half of a season is a promise; the second is a bill, and the town is about to find out which of the two this one was.

In brief

  • Boardroom Doors closed at AGMK
  • The dugout A promise honoured for Uroš Kojić
  • Squad A falling-out at AGMK