The Lokomotiv Herald
The dugout25 Dec 2028
Jasur Yaxshiboyev frozen out at Lokomotiv
This is not rotation. Jasur Yaxshiboyev has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Lokomotiv is pretending otherwise.
Squad25 Dec 2028
A falling-out at Lokomotiv
Ozodbek O'ktamov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad25 Dec 2028
Boburjon Asqarov 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.
The dugout25 Dec 2028
Sunnatilla Poyonov gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Sunnatilla Poyonov is on it.
The dugout25 Dec 2028
Muhriddin Zoirov knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Lokomotiv, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market25 Dec 2028
Jovan Nišić linked with a move away
The name of Jovan Nišić keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Lokomotiv say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
- The dugout Shodiyor Shodiboyev has been promised minutes
- Market Ali Abdurahmonov has been watched
- Squad Shohnazar Norbekov finally belongs at Lokomotiv
- Squad Eldor Abdullaev is fit again