Farruh Agayev

Central Midfielder - Shortan
24 Jan 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Farruh Agayev

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The Shortan Chronicle

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Sardorbek Saidov out for 37 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Shortan will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Shohruh Eshbo'tayev 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 Shortan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Shortan training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mandala Konté 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Ulug'bek Xudayberdiyev

“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.

Market

Shortan buy the years ahead of Farruh Agayev

He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Market

Qurbonali Shomurodov is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Shortan has been clear about where Qurbonali Shomurodov stands, which is more than many ever get.

In brief

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3 Edition

The Pakhtakor Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Kassim Doumbia

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

Match

Saidumarxon Saidnurullayev sends Pakhtakor through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Saidumarxon Saidnurullayev obliged against Obod. 2‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Pakhtakor.

Player ratings

Saidumarxon Saidnurullayev scores twice — 8.84

Two goals and a mark of 8.84 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

PSIM come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Pakhtakor did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Match

Pakhtakor cannot stop winning

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.

Boardroom

Farruh Agayev has agreed to leave Pakhtakor for nothing

He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Dostonbek Hamdamov

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Odilbek Abdumajidov is a Pakhtakor player

The fee is $220.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Andijon drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Squad

Tempers go at Pakhtakor

Sherzod Nasrullayev 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.

In brief

3 Edition

The Shortan Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The cup run ends for Shortan

1‑3 against Bunyodkor, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Player ratings

A brace, and Doniyor Narzullayev takes the afternoon — 8.38

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Doniyor Narzullayev provided it, and the 8.38 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

Nuriddin Xasanov runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Shortan say no — this time

The offer from Okzhetpes for Islom Kenjaboyev 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.

Match

4 matches without a win for Shortan

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Shortan are no longer polite ones.

Match

Doniyor Narzullayev’s goal not enough for Shortan

Doniyor Narzullayev scored, and precious little else went right: 3‑5 to Neftchi, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad

Shohruh Eshbo'tayev 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 Shortan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Doniyor Narzullayev among the goals in a wild afternoon

8 goals in one match, Doniyor Narzullayev on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Shortan and Neftchi.

Boardroom

Shortan beat the market to Farruh Agayev from Pakhtakor

Pakhtakor will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Farruh Agayev has pre-agreed a move to Shortan, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

In brief