The Bukhara Gazette
Squad23 Oct 2028
Tempers go at Bukhara
Vladimir Rodić 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.
Squad23 Oct 2028
Bojan Mlađović 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.
The dugout23 Oct 2028
The manager makes an example of Asadbek Jo'raboyev
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout23 Oct 2028
Dominik Begić knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Bukhara, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market23 Oct 2028
Bojan Mlađović linked with a move away
The name of Bojan Mlađović keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Bukhara say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout23 Oct 2028
Mikheil Basheleishvili has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Mikheil Basheleishvili has written the date down.
In brief
- Squad Questions about Azamat Shomurodov on the training pitch
- Squad Eldor Masharipov back in training