The Qizilqum Chronicle
Match5 Jun 2038
Qizilqum taken apart
0‑3 to Shortan, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Player ratings7 Jun 2038
Nobody could get near Felipe Coates
Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Jun 2038
A one-man rearguard from Farhod Rahmatov
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match5 Jun 2038
6 matches without a win for Qizilqum
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Qizilqum are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Jun 2038
Tempers go at Qizilqum
Prince Ukachukwu was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad7 Jun 2038
Ahmed Al-Ghamdi stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ahmed Al-Ghamdi and Qizilqum agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad7 Jun 2038
Samat Postnikov gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Samat Postnikov has just signed for Qizilqum, and for once the answer mattered.
Boardroom7 Jun 2038
$213.3K of the owner's money at Qizilqum
The shortfall was covered from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be relieved and entitled to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings usually arrive together.
Market7 Jun 2038
No place for Azizbek Usmonov in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Azizbek Usmonov has his answer from Qizilqum; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
In brief
- Boardroom Doors closed at Qizilqum
- Market Still no ink between Qizilqum and Shohruhbek Yoqubjonov
- Market A long bet from Qizilqum on Ko Nakamura