The Shortan Chronicle
Market25 Jan 2027
Roman Vegerya asks to leave Shortan
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Roman Vegerya says Shortan went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Shortan count the cost of losing Nuriddin Xasanov
15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Shortan
Ulug'bek Xoliqov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
Nuriddin Xasanov has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Shortan will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
G'anisher Qodirov knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and G'anisher Qodirov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- The dugout The manager comes out for Bahrom Abdurahimov
- Squad Eldor Mirzaev is out on the grass again