Marked for Eldor Adhamov
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match20 May 2028
0‑3 to Nasaf, 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.
The dugout22 May 2028
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market22 May 2028
Eldor Adhamov hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Sogdiana can pretend not to have heard.
Match20 May 2028
4 matches without a win for Sogdiana
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Sogdiana are no longer polite ones.
Squad22 May 2028
Words exchanged at Sogdiana
Ljupce Doriev and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match20 May 2028
3 matches without a goal for Sogdiana
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
The dugout22 May 2028
“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.
Squad22 May 2028
Words at Sogdiana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Umid Sultonov 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.
Boardroom22 May 2028
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad27 Dec 2027
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Sogdiana will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad27 Dec 2027
Eldorbek Begimov 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.
Squad27 Dec 2027
Umid Sultonov 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.
Squad27 Dec 2027
Sogdiana are still strangers to each other
5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
The dugout27 Dec 2027
Federico Botti 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 Sogdiana, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout27 Dec 2027
The manager makes an example of Eldor Adhamov
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Steady
Squad20 Dec 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 71 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Transfer targets20 Dec 2027
Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad20 Dec 2027
Otabek Jo'raqo'ziyev 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.
Squad20 Dec 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nodirjon Soyibov commits to Sogdiana for another 3 years.
Squad20 Dec 2027
Suhrob Izzatov 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 dugout20 Dec 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout20 Dec 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market20 Dec 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Sogdiana know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market20 Dec 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad13 Dec 2027
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Sogdiana will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Words exchanged at Sogdiana
Otabek Jo'raqo'ziyev and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad13 Dec 2027
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Diyorbek Asomiddinov is living that version at Sogdiana, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad13 Dec 2027
A row about effort at Sogdiana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Suhrob Izzatov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout13 Dec 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout13 Dec 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Nikola Mirković trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout13 Dec 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market13 Dec 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Otabek Jo'raqo'ziyev’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Market13 Dec 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
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Steady
Squad6 Dec 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jasur Komilov
18 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Sogdiana lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad6 Dec 2027
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Sogdiana will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market6 Dec 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Sogdiana, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets6 Dec 2027
Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad6 Dec 2027
A falling-out at Sogdiana
Islomjon Qobilov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout6 Dec 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad6 Dec 2027
A row about effort at Sogdiana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Darko Lazić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout6 Dec 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Nikola Mirković trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout6 Dec 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market9 Aug 2027
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Martin Boakye had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 20 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad9 Aug 2027
There were 6 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.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.78 for the rest of it.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Andijon are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Player ratings9 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad9 Aug 2027
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.
Market9 Aug 2027
Business is business: Eldor Adhamov goes
Sogdiana paid $39.0K and Andijon took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Match7 Aug 2027
It finished 2‑0, and it was Imeda Ashortia’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Andijon.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market9 Aug 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
Sogdiana and Pakhtakor have settled on $10.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Market9 Aug 2027
The fee is $39.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Andijon drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Sogdiana know it.
Squad9 Aug 2027
A row about effort at Sogdiana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Shahzod Azmiddinov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Vojvodina have kept their man, and Sogdiana go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Match7 Aug 2027
Three points for Sogdiana, 2‑1 the final word against Obod in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad9 Aug 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sogdiana this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces9 Aug 2027
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad2 Aug 2027
27 days out for Shohruh Mirzaev after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Andijon will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Boardroom2 Aug 2027
Pressure builds in the Andijon boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Player ratings2 Aug 2027
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.70 for the rest of it.
Match31 Jul 2027
4 matches without a win for Andijon
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Andijon are no longer polite ones.
Squad2 Aug 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Andijon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match31 Jul 2027
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Andijon and Bunyodkor, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rahimjon Davronov 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.
Match31 Jul 2027
Andijon are shipping goals every week
Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.
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Upbeat
Match31 Jul 2027
Chastening afternoon for Sogdiana
A 1‑5 beating by Navbahor was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
The dugout2 Aug 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match31 Jul 2027
The run is over for Sogdiana
10 matches without defeat, and then Navbahor. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
Market2 Aug 2027
The paperwork is done: Federico Botti joins from Bunyodkor in a deal worth $140.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Squad2 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Sogdiana
Shahzod Azmiddinov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets2 Aug 2027
The offer went to Andijon this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Match31 Jul 2027
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Sogdiana and Navbahor, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Transfer targets2 Aug 2027
Sogdiana asked and Zbrojovka Brno said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout2 Aug 2027
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 Jul 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Abbos G'ulomov
15 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Andijon lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match17 Jul 2027
Beaten 0‑3 by Sogdiana, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 41 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market19 Jul 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad19 Jul 2027
A falling-out at Andijon
Doniyor Abdumannopov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad19 Jul 2027
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 dugout19 Jul 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Boardroom19 Jul 2027
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑3 Islom Ahmedov left the room before anybody could ask which.
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Triumph
Match17 Jul 2027
3‑0, and Suhrob Izzatov took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Sogdiana tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Player ratings19 Jul 2027
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.19, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match17 Jul 2027
Sogdiana cannot stop winning
4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad19 Jul 2027
A falling-out at Sogdiana
Otabek Jo'raqo'ziyev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
The offer went to Andijon this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Andijon wanted more than $39.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Words at Sogdiana training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Shahzod Azmiddinov 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.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Sogdiana asked and Argentinos Juniors said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Player ratings19 Jul 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.53, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad5 Jul 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Abbos G'ulomov
29 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Andijon lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match3 Jul 2027
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Metallurg, and it could have been more.
Market5 Jul 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market5 Jul 2027
Eldor Adhamov 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Wang Tianyou gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Wang Tianyou has just signed for Andijon, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad5 Jul 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Andijon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces5 Jul 2027
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings5 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. 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.
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Upbeat
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.27 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market28 Jun 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
Sogdiana have gone to Andijon with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Match26 Jun 2027
Whatever happens, Sogdiana do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad28 Jun 2027
A row about effort at Sogdiana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Shahzod Azmiddinov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
Sogdiana asked and AGMK said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Words exchanged at Sogdiana
Xondamir Mustafoqulov and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match26 Jun 2027
Lokomotiv made Sogdiana work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
“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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Jun 2027
Abbos G'ulomov damages knee ligaments — 45 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 45 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.
Match19 Jun 2027
3‑0, and Martin Boakye took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Andijon tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Squad21 Jun 2027
18 days out for Shohruh Mirzaev after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Andijon will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market21 Jun 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Andijon, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
7.70, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Market21 Jun 2027
Sogdiana come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Andijon did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
Andijon asked and Tekstilac Odžaci said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad21 Jun 2027
A row about effort at Andijon
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Rahimjon Davronov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Steady
Match16 Jun 2027
Sogdiana march on in the cup
Pakhtakor are out and Sogdiana go through, 2‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Navbahor is saying, and nobody at Sogdiana is enjoying the guessing.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Shahzod Azmiddinov 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.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
Andijon wanted more than $39.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The terraces21 Jun 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Ollobergan Karimov has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad21 Jun 2027
200 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
Squad21 Jun 2027
A row about effort at Sogdiana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Darko Lazić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Jun 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Abbos G'ulomov
52 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Andijon lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market14 Jun 2027
Martin Boakye hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Andijon can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.98 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 25 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Andijon have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Abbos G'ulomov 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.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Match12 Jun 2027
Andijon get the job done against Obod
A 3‑1 win over Obod, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Jun 2027
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Market14 Jun 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Words exchanged at Sogdiana
Shahzod Azmiddinov and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
$39.0K on the table at Andijon. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
Sogdiana asked and Mashal said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces14 Jun 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Saidumarxon Saidnurullayev has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match12 Jun 2027
It had gone 5 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.
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Crisis
Squad24 May 2027
Abbos G'ulomov damages knee ligaments — 76 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 76 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.
Squad24 May 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 47 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market24 May 2027
Only the photograph left for Eldor Adhamov
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Eldor Adhamov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Andijon the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad24 May 2027
Nemanja Ćalasan 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.
Squad24 May 2027
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aleksandre Andronikashvili 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.
Match22 May 2027
3 matches without a goal for Andijon
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Match22 May 2027
Pakhtakor left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout24 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nemanja Ćalasan, and the manager let it.
The dugout24 May 2027
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Islom Ahmedov left the room before anybody could ask which.
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Steady
Squad3 May 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Abbos G'ulomov
97 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Andijon lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad3 May 2027
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aleksandre Andronikashvili 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.
Squad3 May 2027
Words exchanged at Andijon
Imeda Ashortia and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match1 May 2027
Lokomotiv made Andijon work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad3 May 2027
The medical room confirms 47 days on the sidelines for Sardor Tukhtasinov, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Marked 7.94. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
The dugout3 May 2027
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Islom Ahmedov on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
The dugout3 May 2027
Abbos G'ulomov asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Uneasy
Squad26 Apr 2027
Abbos G'ulomov damages knee ligaments — 107 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 107 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.
Match24 Apr 2027
Andijon throw away a 2-goal lead
2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with AGMK the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Andijon will enjoy reviewing.
Squad26 Apr 2027
There were 6 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.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
A defender's goal wins it for Andijon — 7.36
1 for Aleksandre Andronikashvili, marked 7.36, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Market26 Apr 2027
Eldor Adhamov 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.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Words exchanged at Andijon
Abbos G'ulomov and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aleksandre Andronikashvili 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.
The dugout26 Apr 2027
“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.
Match24 Apr 2027
Andijon share the spoils with AGMK
A 2‑2 draw with AGMK leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Steady
The dugout29 Mar 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Andijon may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market29 Mar 2027
Eldor Adhamov 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.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Abbos G'ulomov 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.
Loan watch29 Mar 2027
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Andijon, and 3 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Abubakir Ashurov, and the manager let it.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Luka Zunturovi 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 dugout29 Mar 2027
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
Imeda Ashortia 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 Andijon, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Looking ahead29 Mar 2027
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Sogdiana in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Upbeat
Market1 Mar 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Andijon is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad1 Mar 2027
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Andijon know it.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Abbos G'ulomov 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aleksandre Andronikashvili 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.
Loan watch1 Mar 2027
“I did not go to AGMK to sit and watch. I want to come back to Andijon and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Andijon than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
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Upbeat
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Andijon
Doniyor Abdumannopov and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Imeda Ashortia
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad15 Feb 2027
7 new faces, and Andijon are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Squad15 Feb 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Kristian Jašović and Andijon agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
Rafał Mamla knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Rafał Mamla trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Sayfiddin Sodikov 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.
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Upbeat
Market1 Feb 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Andijon, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Deadline passes with 3 signed and 3 gone
That is the business done at Andijon until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Market1 Feb 2027
Only the photograph left for Eldor Adhamov
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Eldor Adhamov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Andijon the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad1 Feb 2027
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Andijon are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad1 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Andijon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Andijon
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aleksandre Andronikashvili was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
“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.
Market1 Feb 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Andijon will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
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Upbeat
Market25 Jan 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Andijon people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Mashal have kept their man, and Andijon go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Andijon
Imeda Ashortia and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad25 Jan 2027
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Andijon, and both men came out saying it was fine.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
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 Shohjahon Yorqinboyev is on it.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A new face in his position and a shirt he thought he owned suddenly up for discussion. Andijon have promised nothing, which is what clubs promise at this stage.
Squad25 Jan 2027
This league is too small for Abbos G'ulomov
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Andijon will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Market25 Jan 2027
A season-long look at somebody else’s player: Muminhon Bahodirxonov arrives from Neftchi with something to prove and a return ticket in the drawer. Good loans make everybody richer; this one starts Saturday.
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Upbeat
Market11 Jan 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Andijon people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
The deal with Navbahor is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Market11 Jan 2027
Eldor Adhamov hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Andijon can pretend not to have heard.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Doniyor Abdumannopov 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.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Mohir Komilov has improved at 24, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sardor Azimov 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Andijon will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Damir Temirov 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 Damir Temirov is on it.
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Crisis
Match26 Sep 2026
Nowhere to hide for Andijon
0‑3 against Navbahor, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Andijon
Martin Boakye and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rustam Turdimurodov, and the manager let it.
Boardroom28 Sep 2026
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Andijon
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sardor Azimov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Islom Ahmedov after 0‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Ten men and a goalkeeper behind him, and it still finished in the net. He knew before anybody told him, and nobody at Andijon needed to.
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Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
Ordabasy come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Andijon did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Andijon close the window on a squad of their own making
15 in and 7 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Market7 Sep 2026
The deal that would have taken Damir Temirov to Bunyodkor has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Andijon with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Market7 Sep 2026
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Miraziz Mahamadaliyev is a Andijon player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Squad7 Sep 2026
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Miraziz Mahamadaliyev is living that version at Andijon, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market7 Sep 2026
The name of Sardor Azimov has come up in conversations Andijon were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Andijon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Imeda Ashortia 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.