Eldor Komilov

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Obod
18 Sep 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for Eldor Komilov

7 Edition

The Obod Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

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.

Match

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.

Market

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Match

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

Back issues
2 Edition

The Obod Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Nowhere to hide for Obod

1‑5 against Neftchi, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

The terraces

The boos come down from three sides

“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 7 of the 35 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.

Market

Eldor Komilov puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Obod, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Grigory Gordeev signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Grigory Gordeev commits to Obod for another 3 years.

Squad

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.

Match

6 goals as Obod and Neftchi go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Obod and Neftchi, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Squad

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.

Squad

Saleh Al-Qumayzi 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.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Obod dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

In brief

1 Edition

The Obod Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Obod taken apart

1‑9 to Sogdiana, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Player ratings

A debut Doniyor Ganiev will not forget — 7.37

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 1 on the scoresheet, 7.37 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Squad

Aziz Tukhtasinov keeps Obod in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

Odil Ganiev puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Obod, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Rustam Mirzaev 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.

Match

10 goals as Obod and Sogdiana go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 10 goals between Obod and Sogdiana, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Squad

Words at Obod training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Simphiwe Mtsweni 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Sherzod Ahmedov

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sherzod Ahmedov, and the manager let it.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Obod dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

In brief