The Obod Sentinel
Boardroom11 Dec 2028
Pressure builds in the Obod boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Match11 Dec 2028
Obod sink to position 15
14 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market11 Dec 2028
Pejman Pouraliganji 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 Obod can pretend not to have heard.
Squad11 Dec 2028
Amir Ganiev 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 Obod this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Dec 2028
Words at Obod training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jasur Ismailov 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.
Squad11 Dec 2028
Amir Shomurodov stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Amir Shomurodov and Obod agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
In brief
- Squad Dilshod Saitov asks for a word with the manager
- Market The Sardor Tukhtasinov story refuses to die