Mavlon Amonov

Left Midfielder - Al-Ta'ee
29 Oct 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Mavlon Amonov

111 Edition

The Al-Ta'ee Chronicle

11 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Törles Knöll 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 Al-Ta'ee this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Rakan Al-Shamlan was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.19. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Squad

Revaz Shengelia wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Al-Ta'ee know it.

Market

Abdulkarim Sultan is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Al-Ta'ee has been clear about where Abdulkarim Sultan stands, which is more than many ever get.

Match

Al-Ta'ee share the spoils with Al-Batin

A 1‑1 draw with Al-Batin leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Player ratings

Ali Al-Jassem runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Rakan Al-Harbi

“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.

Squad

“I want to play”: Amer Khalil speaks

“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.

Player ratings

Törles Knöll keeps on missing

Shots: 11, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.

In brief

Back issues
102 Edition

The Al-Ta'ee Chronicle

10 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ibrahim Al-Nakhli

55 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Al-Ta'ee lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Hamad Al-Juhani is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Al-Ta'ee is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Real improvement from Qədir Ramazanov at Al-Ta'ee

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Qədir Ramazanov is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Tempers go at Al-Ta'ee

Luis Haquín 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.

Squad

A move Mavlon Amonov would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Mavlon Amonov is living that version at Al-Ta'ee, and it tends to show in the first month.

Boardroom

Wages eat 192% of everything Al-Ta'ee earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

In brief