The Qizilqum Chronicle
Match3 Sep 2033
No end in sight to Qizilqum's wait for a win
14 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Qizilqum has to find a result from somewhere.
Market5 Sep 2033
Timur Fayzullaev hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Qizilqum can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom5 Sep 2033
Deadline passes with 9 signed and 10 gone
That is the business done at Qizilqum until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Squad5 Sep 2033
Samandar Shukurullayev stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Samandar Shukurullayev and Qizilqum agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match3 Sep 2033
Navbahor take the points off Qizilqum
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad5 Sep 2033
Nikola Kumburović 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.
Squad5 Sep 2033
Murodali Usmonov 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 Qizilqum this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Looking ahead5 Sep 2033
A six-pointer for Qizilqum
Obod next, and both sides can do the sum. Win and the table looks different; lose and it looks the way everybody has been fearing.
The dugout5 Sep 2033
The manager makes an example of Kamron Norqulov
“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.
In brief
- Squad Qizilqum lose Nodir Nematov
- The dugout Interim Coach: “No excuses”
- Boardroom The numbers do not look good at Qizilqum