The Nasaf Courier
Squad8 Mar 2027
Yusuf Otubanjo signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Yusuf Otubanjo commits to Nasaf for another 2 years.
Market8 Mar 2027
Eldor Abdullaev comes home
The shirt still fits. Eldor Abdullaev is back at Nasaf, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market8 Mar 2027
Sardor Mirzaev comes home
The shirt still fits. Sardor Mirzaev is back at Nasaf, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market8 Mar 2027
Jasur Abdullaev is a Nasaf player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market8 Mar 2027
Amir Ismailov comes home
The shirt still fits. Amir Ismailov is back at Nasaf, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Match6 Mar 2027
Nasaf come up short against Kokand 1912
Kokand 1912 left with the points after a 3-4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Samandar Toirov gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A long afternoon for Abduvohid Ne'matov
Beaten 4 times, with 1 saves for company. Goalkeepers carry these scorelines on their record whoever actually caused them, which is the quiet injustice of the job.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Kingsley Sokari finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Nasaf have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
In brief
- The terraces The press have found their man in Adenis Shala
- Loan watch Persebaya cannot leave Samandar Muratboyev out