The Obod Sentinel
Match12 Sep 2026
8 matches without a win for Obod
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Obod are no longer polite ones.
Match12 Sep 2026
Obod are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 8 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
Market14 Sep 2026
Eldor Komilov 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Obod
Saleh Al-Qumayzi 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Messie Biatoumoussoka 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Obod come up short against Qizilqum
Qizilqum left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
In brief
- Squad The manager makes an example of Abbey Benson
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Rustam Mirzaev
- Squad 9 new faces, and Obod are still learning each other
- Market Window shut, Timur Hasanov still here