The Mashal Sentinel
Player ratings4 Sep 2028
Age has not caught Islom Sharipov yet — 7.92
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.92 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Tempers go at Mashal
Islom Sharipov 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.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Ivan Rios gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Ivan Rios has just signed for Mashal, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Muhammadali Aliqulov 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.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Shohnazar Norbekov 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.
Loan watch4 Sep 2028
Ibrohim G'anixonov: I did not sign for Mashal to play for other people
“Every summer it is another club, another set of team-mates, another manager to convince. I have done all that. Now I want a pre-season at Mashal and a proper look at me.” He remains Bukhara’s player until the spell runs out — but the argument is with the club that owns him.
Market4 Sep 2028
Mashal buy the years ahead of Ivan Rios
He is 17, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Match2 Sep 2028
Islom Sharipov rescues a point for Mashal
It needed Islom Sharipov to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against AGMK, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Player ratings4 Sep 2028
Nobody could get near Shohnazar Norbekov
Successful dribbles: 9. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- Market The window shut and Diyorbek Asomiddinov is still in the building
- Market The shop window has Ahmed Al-Nadhri in it