The Bukhara Gazette
Squad6 Mar 2028
Muxammad Yuldashev damages knee ligaments — 48 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 48 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Player ratings6 Mar 2028
A brace, and Dominik Begić takes the afternoon — 8.24
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Dominik Begić provided it, and the 8.24 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market6 Mar 2028
Sardorbek Salimov is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Bukhara is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Bojan Mlađović signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Bojan Mlađović and Bukhara agree another 2 years.
Player ratings6 Mar 2028
Nobody could get near Vladimir Rodić
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Tempers go at Bukhara
Shirinboy Abdullayev 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.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
Graduation day at Bukhara
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad6 Mar 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.
Match4 Mar 2028
Bukhara find a way past Shortan
Shortan made Bukhara work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
In brief
- Market Bukhara promote Eldor Hasanov from within
- Market One of our own: Islom Ismailov joins the Bukhara first team
- Market Sherzod Abdullaev steps up from the Bukhara academy