The Lokomotiv Herald
Squad8 Mar 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Alexey Kozlov
104 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Lokomotiv lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Charles Traoré stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Charles Traoré and Lokomotiv agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match6 Mar 2027
Whatever happens, Lokomotiv do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Suhrob Nurulloev runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Jasur Yaxshiboyev 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 Lokomotiv this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
6 academy players handed senior numbers at Lokomotiv
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Words at Lokomotiv training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Charles Traoré 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.
Market8 Mar 2027
One of our own: Eldor Shomurodov joins the Lokomotiv first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Eldor Shomurodov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Mar 2027
Lokomotiv promote Sardor Mirzaev from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Sardor Mirzaev has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market Mirzo Shomurodov steps up from the Lokomotiv academy
- Market Lokomotiv promote Mirzo Tukhtasinov from within
- Boardroom No investment in the facilities at Lokomotiv