The Nasaf Courier
Market7 Sep 2026
Abduvohid Ne'matov sold, and an era ends
$1.9M from Astana for Abduvohid Ne'matov. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.
Market7 Sep 2026
Irtysh come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Nasaf did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
Nasaf sell a favourite for $1.9M
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Abduvohid Ne'matov was one of the reasons people came, and $1.9M does not replace that by itself.
Market7 Sep 2026
Rustam Elomonov asks to leave Nasaf
“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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 16 in, 1 out at Nasaf
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 16 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Nasaf
Yusuf Otubanjo 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A month that belonged to Sardorbek Bahromov
The young player of the month award goes to a 21-year-old at Nasaf who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Akromjon Komilov 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Zafarmurod Abdurahmatov makes the team of the month
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Sherzod G'ulomjonov
- The dugout Yusuf Otubanjo has become a man the manager trusts
- Market The shop window has Sardorbek Bahromov in it