The Mashal Sentinel
Market7 Sep 2026
Samandar Ochilov hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Mashal can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 11 signed and 4 gone
That is the business done at Mashal until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Shahzod Azmiddinov will not be coming to Mashal
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Pakhtakor is saying, and nobody at Mashal is enjoying the guessing.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Sherzod Fayziyev 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 Mashal this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Mashal training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Muhammadali Aliqulov 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Ordabasy watching Mahmud Jo'raboyev
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Mashal have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Nuriddin Nuriddinov moves up the pecking order
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Mashal than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Kamronbek Hamroyev gets it from the manager
“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.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
A reunion for Ergash Ismoilov
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Bunyodkor in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
In brief
- The dugout Nurjahon Muzaffarov asks for a word with the manager
- Market Still no ink between Mashal and Roman Khadjiev
- Market Vlatko Stojanovski linked with a move away