The Bukhara Gazette
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Aziz Ismailov has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Bukhara can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
The Bukhara board call everybody in
Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Asadbek Habibullayev gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Asadbek Habibullayev has just signed for Bukhara, and for once the answer mattered.
Market7 Feb 2028
Kokand 1912 come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Bukhara did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Bojan Mlađović 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 Bukhara this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Words at Bukhara training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Shahboz Jo'rabekov 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.
Squad7 Feb 2028
The manager makes an example of Ravshan Xayrullayev
“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.
Market7 Feb 2028
Bukhara sign Frederik Simonsen, one for the future
Frederik Simonsen is 18, and Bukhara have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
Market7 Feb 2028
Bukhara sign Erick Dala, one for the future
Erick Dala is 20, and Bukhara have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
In brief
- Market Bukhara sign Ibrahim Ismail, one for the future
- Boardroom Bukhara pull $2.5K back off the table
- Boardroom The Bukhara dressing room answers