The Bunyodkor Post
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Shohboz Umarov was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 39. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Doniyor Ganiev damages knee ligaments — 14 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 14 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Metallurg come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Bunyodkor did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Panagiotis Tsantilas will not be coming to Bunyodkor
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Atromitos is saying, and nobody at Bunyodkor is enjoying the guessing.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Nika Kvekveskiri 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 Bunyodkor this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words at Bunyodkor training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sardor Rahmonov 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.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
Samandar Sindarov will join Bunyodkor for nothing
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Samandar Sindarov has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Bunyodkor have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Bunyodkor rebuffed over Yegor Kortsov
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Brest have kept their man, and Bunyodkor go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Najmiddin Normurodov 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.