Marked for Jonathan Bukari
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Feb 2028
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Navbahor will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market14 Feb 2028
“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.
Squad14 Feb 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Navbahor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market14 Feb 2028
The phone has started ringing about Quvondiq Ro'ziyev again, and this time the name on the line is Kairat. Navbahor are listening politely and promising nothing.
Market14 Feb 2028
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.
Market14 Feb 2028
Everyone has stopped pretending: Obod will make the call about Muhammadali G'iyosov this week. Navbahor have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.28 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market7 Sep 2026
Emmanuel Gyan 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 Hasaacas can pretend not to have heard.
Market7 Sep 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market7 Sep 2026
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Baba Mensah reports back to Hasaacas with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Barou Sanogo 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 Hasaacas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
2 academy players handed senior numbers at Hasaacas
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Match5 Sep 2026
2‑3 to BA All Stars, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Taoufik Safsafi 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Harrison Kudus has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Hasaacas did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Barou Sanogo 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
19 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Andrew Adjei 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Yaw Mohammed
“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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Jonathan Bukari is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Hasaacas has been clear about where Jonathan Bukari stands, which is more than many ever get.