The Nasaf Courier
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
A brace, and Yusuf Otubanjo takes the afternoon — 8.70
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Yusuf Otubanjo provided it, and the 8.70 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Filip Stanić due for a Nasaf medical
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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Nasaf rebuffed over Hojimat Erkinov
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Pakhtakor have kept their man, and Nasaf go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Nasaf bid $32.0K for Dilshod Abdullayev
The offer went to Pakhtakor 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Oybek Rustamov stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Oybek Rustamov and Nasaf agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match8 Aug 2026
Yusuf Otubanjo the difference as Nasaf beat Shortan
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Yusuf Otubanjo. 3‑1 against Shortan, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A last season at home is what Stefan Čolović is after
It is sentimental, it is completely genuine, and it is the beginning of a departure nobody has announced. The club can be gracious about it or it can pretend not to have heard.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Nasaf
Oybek Rustamov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market10 Aug 2026
Nasaf promote Aziz Tukhtasinov from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Aziz Tukhtasinov has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Timur Ganiev joins the Nasaf first team
- Market One of our own: Jasur Ganiev joins the Nasaf first team
- Market Ulugbek Hasanov steps up from the Nasaf academy