Marked for Samandar Toirov
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad1 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Nasaf
Älibek Qasym 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alibek Davronov, and the manager let it.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Steady
Market4 Jan 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Nasaf can pretend not to have heard.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Nasaf
Yusuf Otubanjo 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
The name of Murodbek Rahmatov has come up in conversations Nasaf were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Diyor Abdunazarov and Nasaf agree another 3 years.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Oybek Rustamov, and the manager let it.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Umarbek Eshmurodov keeps the shirt for now, at Nasaf's convenience rather than his own.
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Steady
Market14 Dec 2026
“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 The request is on a desk at Nasaf, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market14 Dec 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. G'olib G'aybullayev will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Nasaf the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Nasaf
Carlos Martínez 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Sharof Muhiddinov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market14 Dec 2026
1 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Nasaf could ask drops and the wages G'olib G'aybullayev can ask rise.
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Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
Samandar Toirov: 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.” Nasaf have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market5 Oct 2026
“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 Nasaf, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad5 Oct 2026
The medical room confirms 124 days on the sidelines for Yusuf Otubanjo, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market5 Oct 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Javohir Ubaydullayev will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Nasaf the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad5 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Nasaf this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
755% of the income goes out in wages at Nasaf
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.