Eldor Ganiev

Left Forward - Nasaf
9 Dec 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Eldor Ganiev

18 Edition

The Nasaf Courier

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Stefan Čolović wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Nasaf know it.

Squad

Tempers go at Nasaf

Alibek Davronov 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.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 144% of the Nasaf income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

Squad

Words at Nasaf training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Adenis Shala 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.

The dugout

When it matters, Kojo Peprah Oppong plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout

No hiding place for Eldor Ganiev

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

In brief

Back issues
17 Edition

The Nasaf Courier

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Samandar Muratboyev is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Nasaf is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Alibek Davronov 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 Nasaf this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Nasaf training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kingsley Sokari 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Asilbek No'monov

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

The dugout

When it matters, Kingsley Sokari plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout

The manager makes G'olib G'aybullayev a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Nasaf. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief

15 Edition

The Nasaf Courier

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Nodir Fayzullaev

24 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Nasaf lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

G'olib G'aybullayev 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 Nasaf this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at Nasaf

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Adenis Shala was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

A quiet fortnight at Nasaf

With 5 players away on international duty the sessions are small and the manager can actually hear himself. It is the one break in the season, and it never quite feels like one.

The dugout

When it matters, Yusuf Otubanjo plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout

The manager makes G'olib G'aybullayev a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Nasaf. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief