The Andijon Gazette
Market16 Dec 2030
Boburbek Yorbekov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Andijon they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad16 Dec 2030
A falling-out at Andijon
Humoyunmirzo Iminov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Dec 2030
Aleksandre Andronikashvili 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 dugout16 Dec 2030
No hiding place for Nikoloz Chomakhidze
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nikoloz Chomakhidze, and the manager let it.
Squad16 Dec 2030
Eldor Masharipov signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Eldor Masharipov and Andijon agree another 3 years.
Market16 Dec 2030
The Po'latxo'ja Xoldorxonov talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Andijon know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad16 Dec 2030
Nikoloz Chomakhidze remains an outsider
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Andijon would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
The dugout16 Dec 2030
The manager makes Hikmatilla Hikmatov a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Andijon. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Market16 Dec 2030
Andijon put Sardor Abduraimov up for sale
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Sardor Abduraimov may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
In brief
- The dugout Sardor Abduraimov knocks on the manager's door
- The dugout The manager comes out for Aleksandre Andronikashvili