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Upbeat
Squad19 Jun 2028
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 76 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match14 Jun 2028
Andijon march on in the cup
Pakhtakor are out and Andijon go through, 2‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Player ratings19 Jun 2028
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Aleksandre Andronikashvili provided it, and the 8.24 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market19 Jun 2028
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Andijon have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Match17 Jun 2028
Andijon make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Andijon have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad19 Jun 2028
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Andijon can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad19 Jun 2028
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.
Squad19 Jun 2028
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.
Match17 Jun 2028
Shortan made Andijon work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Jun 2028
A fracture rules Abbos G'ulomov out for 84 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Andijon will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match10 Jun 2028
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings12 Jun 2028
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.25, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match10 Jun 2028
At last: Andijon win one
9 matches without a win, and then this, against Obod. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Market12 Jun 2028
“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.
Squad12 Jun 2028
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.
Squad12 Jun 2028
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Humoyunmirzo Iminov 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.
Player ratings12 Jun 2028
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout12 Jun 2028
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Islom Ahmedov, on a 3‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
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Crisis
Squad5 Jun 2028
92 days out for Abbos G'ulomov 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.
Match3 Jun 2028
9 matches without a win for Andijon
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Andijon are no longer polite ones.
Market5 Jun 2028
“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.
Squad5 Jun 2028
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Abbos G'ulomov and Andijon agree another 4 years.
Squad5 Jun 2028
Words exchanged at Andijon
Filip Stanić 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.
Squad5 Jun 2028
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.
Match3 Jun 2028
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout5 Jun 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Abbos G'ulomov, and the manager let it.
Player ratings5 Jun 2028
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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Uneasy
Squad29 May 2028
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 99 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match27 May 2028
No end in sight to Andijon's wait for a win
8 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Andijon has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad29 May 2028
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings29 May 2028
A defender's goal wins it for Andijon — 7.72
1 for Muhammadkarim Toirov, marked 7.72, 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.
The dugout29 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.
Squad29 May 2028
Filip Stanić 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.
Squad29 May 2028
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 dugout29 May 2028
“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.
Match27 May 2028
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
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Uneasy
Squad22 May 2028
A fracture rules Abbos G'ulomov out for 106 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Andijon will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match20 May 2028
7 matches without a win for Andijon
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Andijon are no longer polite ones.
Squad22 May 2028
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 dugout22 May 2028
The manager makes an example of Asilbek Aliev
“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.
Squad22 May 2028
A row about effort at Andijon
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Humoyunmirzo Iminov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout22 May 2028
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 dugout22 May 2028
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.
The dugout22 May 2028
“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.
Match20 May 2028
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Pakhtakor defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Uneasy
Squad15 May 2028
A fracture rules Abbos G'ulomov out for 116 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Andijon will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match13 May 2028
6 matches without a win for Andijon
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Andijon are no longer polite ones.
Squad15 May 2028
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.
Player ratings15 May 2028
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match13 May 2028
Andijon make home a hard place to visit
9 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad15 May 2028
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.
Player ratings15 May 2028
7.34, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Andijon had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
The dugout15 May 2028
Nobody at Andijon will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Boardroom15 May 2028
The numbers do not look good at Andijon
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
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Uneasy
Squad8 May 2028
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.
Market8 May 2028
“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.
Match6 May 2028
No end in sight to Andijon's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Andijon has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad8 May 2028
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.
Squad8 May 2028
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.
Boardroom8 May 2028
87% of the income goes out in wages at Andijon
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad8 May 2028
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Match6 May 2028
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout8 May 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sayfiddin Sodikov, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Squad1 May 2028
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.
Match29 Apr 2028
The wait goes on for Andijon
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad1 May 2028
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.
Match29 Apr 2028
The run at home goes on for Andijon
8 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Squad1 May 2028
A row about effort at Andijon
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Humoyunmirzo Iminov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings1 May 2028
A performance of 8.02 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match29 Apr 2028
Late, late show earns Andijon a point
Minute 92, against Lokomotiv, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
The dugout1 May 2028
Nemanja Ćalasan is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
The dugout1 May 2028
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
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Crisis
Squad24 Apr 2028
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.
Squad24 Apr 2028
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.
Squad24 Apr 2028
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.
Match22 Apr 2028
A bad afternoon for Andijon against AGMK
1‑2 to AGMK, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout24 Apr 2028
“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.
Loan watch24 Apr 2028
“I did not go to Qizilqum to sit and watch. I want to come back to Andijon and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.
The dugout24 Apr 2028
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout24 Apr 2028
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 dugout24 Apr 2028
Filip Stanić 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 Filip Stanić is on it.
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Steady
Squad17 Apr 2028
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.
Squad17 Apr 2028
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Andijon can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad17 Apr 2028
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.
Squad17 Apr 2028
Words exchanged at Andijon
Đorđe Jovanović 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 dugout17 Apr 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.
Player ratings17 Apr 2028
Marked 7.24 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Andijon had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout17 Apr 2028
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 Ibrohim Yo'ldoshev is on it.
Boardroom17 Apr 2028
Belts tighten at Andijon
The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.
The dugout17 Apr 2028
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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Steady
Squad10 Apr 2028
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.
Match5 Apr 2028
Andijon march on in the cup
Sogdiana are out and Andijon go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Squad10 Apr 2028
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.
Match5 Apr 2028
Asilbek Aliev wins it after the whistle should have gone
104 minutes played. Asilbek Aliev found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Sogdiana went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Market10 Apr 2028
“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 ratings10 Apr 2028
Two goals and a mark of 8.09 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad10 Apr 2028
Words exchanged at Andijon
Filip Stanić 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.
Match8 Apr 2028
Imeda Ashortia scored, and precious little else went right: 3‑4 to Neftchi, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Match8 Apr 2028
Imeda Ashortia among the goals in a wild afternoon
7 goals in one match, Imeda Ashortia on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Andijon and Neftchi.
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Steady
Squad3 Apr 2028
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.
The dugout3 Apr 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.
Market3 Apr 2028
“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.
Squad3 Apr 2028
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.
Squad3 Apr 2028
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 dugout3 Apr 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.
Player ratings3 Apr 2028
Imeda Ashortia ran the middle of the pitch — 7.30
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 11 combined actions and a mark of 7.30, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
Market3 Apr 2028
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Muhammadkarim Toirov has his answer from Andijon; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Player ratings3 Apr 2028
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Steady
Squad27 Mar 2028
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.
Squad27 Mar 2028
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.
Squad27 Mar 2028
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.
Loan watch27 Mar 2028
“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 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout27 Mar 2028
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 dugout27 Mar 2028
“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.
The dugout27 Mar 2028
Imeda Ashortia has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Andijon will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Looking ahead27 Mar 2028
Sogdiana next, and one man in the Andijon dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Market27 Mar 2028
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Imeda Ashortia’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Upbeat
The dugout20 Mar 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Andijon may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings20 Mar 2028
Successful dribbles: 22. 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.
Squad20 Mar 2028
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.
Match18 Mar 2028
Three points for Andijon, 1‑0 the final word against Nasaf in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad20 Mar 2028
A row about effort at Andijon
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Humoyunmirzo Iminov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings20 Mar 2028
Marked 7.75 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Andijon had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout20 Mar 2028
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Islom Ahmedov could afford to be generous.
The dugout20 Mar 2028
Asilbek Aliev 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 Asilbek Aliev is on it.
The dugout20 Mar 2028
“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
Market13 Mar 2028
“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 ratings13 Mar 2028
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Aleksandre Andronikashvili scored, was marked 7.83, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
The dugout13 Mar 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Andijon may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad13 Mar 2028
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.
Squad13 Mar 2028
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 dugout13 Mar 2028
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Islom Ahmedov, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
The dugout13 Mar 2028
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.
Boardroom13 Mar 2028
Andijon counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Andijon now.
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Uneasy
Player ratings6 Mar 2028
Successful dribbles: 30. 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.
Squad6 Mar 2028
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.
Market6 Mar 2028
“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.
The dugout6 Mar 2028
Hao Yucheng: that is not what I was promised
“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.
Squad6 Mar 2028
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Nemanja Ćalasan and Andijon agree another 3 years.
Squad6 Mar 2028
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.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Andijon
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market6 Mar 2028
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Eldor Abdullaev 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.
Market6 Mar 2028
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Rustam Ahmedov has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
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Uneasy
Squad28 Feb 2028
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.
Squad28 Feb 2028
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Humoyunmirzo Iminov 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 watch28 Feb 2028
“I watch every Andijon game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Qizilqum runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout28 Feb 2028
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 dugout28 Feb 2028
“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 dugout28 Feb 2028
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.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Feb 2028
A falling-out at Andijon
Filip Stanić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad21 Feb 2028
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 dugout21 Feb 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Humoyunmirzo Iminov, and the manager let it.
Squad21 Feb 2028
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Mironshoh Shonazarov and Andijon agree another 3 years.
The dugout21 Feb 2028
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.
Squad21 Feb 2028
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Andijon are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
The dugout21 Feb 2028
Abbos G'ulomov 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.
Market21 Feb 2028
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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom14 Feb 2028
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Andijon
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Squad14 Feb 2028
“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.
Squad14 Feb 2028
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.
Squad14 Feb 2028
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.
The dugout14 Feb 2028
“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 dugout14 Feb 2028
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 dugout14 Feb 2028
Asilbek Aliev 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 Asilbek Aliev is on it.
Market14 Feb 2028
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
The dugout14 Feb 2028
Asilbek Aliev 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 Asilbek Aliev trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Islom Ahmedov has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Emergency meeting at Andijon
The whole football department in one room on a weekday morning. Nothing was announced afterwards, which is what a board announces when it has run out of patience.
Market7 Feb 2028
“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.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Window shuts: 2 in, 7 out at Andijon
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 2 arrived, 7 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Market7 Feb 2028
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Obod moved on, Muhammadkarim Toirov reports back to Andijon, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Squad7 Feb 2028
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.
Squad7 Feb 2028
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.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
Squad7 Feb 2028
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market31 Jan 2028
“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.
Squad31 Jan 2028
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.
Squad31 Jan 2028
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.
Transfer targets31 Jan 2028
Andijon asked and Neftchi said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market31 Jan 2028
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
The dugout31 Jan 2028
The manager has not finished forgetting Islom To'xtaxo'jayev's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
The dugout31 Jan 2028
Sardor Azimov has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Andijon will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout31 Jan 2028
“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 dugout31 Jan 2028
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Đorđe Jovanović has written the date down.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market24 Jan 2028
“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.
Market24 Jan 2028
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad24 Jan 2028
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.
Squad24 Jan 2028
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.
The dugout24 Jan 2028
Imeda Ashortia has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Andijon will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout24 Jan 2028
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Rahimjon Davronov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad24 Jan 2028
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Andijon will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Filip Stanić has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Andijon know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Market24 Jan 2028
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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom17 Jan 2028
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.
The terraces17 Jan 2028
He is going to Lokomotiv, the club has $380.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Squad17 Jan 2028
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.
Market17 Jan 2028
Lokomotiv pay $380.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Market17 Jan 2028
The phone has started ringing about Muhammadkarim Toirov again, and this time the name on the line is Obod. Andijon are listening politely and promising nothing.
Transfer targets17 Jan 2028
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.
Squad17 Jan 2028
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.
Squad17 Jan 2028
Andijon 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 dugout17 Jan 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Muhammadkarim Toirov, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market10 Jan 2028
“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 targets10 Jan 2028
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Andijon have done the hard part with Nasaf, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad10 Jan 2028
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.
Squad10 Jan 2028
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.
Market10 Jan 2028
The phone has started ringing about Mohir Komilov again, and this time the name on the line is Sogdiana. Andijon are listening politely and promising nothing.
Market10 Jan 2028
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Sardor Azimov has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Andijon.
The dugout10 Jan 2028
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 Ibrohim Yo'ldoshev is on it.
The dugout10 Jan 2028
Abbos G'ulomov 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 Abbos G'ulomov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom3 Jan 2028
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Market3 Jan 2028
“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.
Market3 Jan 2028
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market3 Jan 2028
24 games and 1 goals away from here, and a man the manager did not have last summer. The loan did what loans are supposed to do and almost never do.
Squad3 Jan 2028
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 targets3 Jan 2028
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.
Squad3 Jan 2028
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 dugout3 Jan 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Islom To'xtaxo'jayev, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad27 Dec 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 dugout27 Dec 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.
Squad27 Dec 2027
A row about effort at Andijon
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Imeda Ashortia was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Boardroom27 Dec 2027
Wages swallow 98% of the Andijon income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
The dugout27 Dec 2027
Sardor Azimov has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Andijon will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout27 Dec 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom20 Dec 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.
Squad20 Dec 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.
Squad20 Dec 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 dugout20 Dec 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 dugout20 Dec 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Ibrohim Yo'ldoshev trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout20 Dec 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 Imeda Ashortia is on it.
The dugout20 Dec 2027
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.
Market20 Dec 2027
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.
Squad20 Dec 2027
Somebody to talk to at the next peg, a few words of the language, and a training ground that has stopped being a foreign country. It never appears in a scouting report and it decides most signings.
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Uneasy
Squad13 Dec 2027
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Andijon can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad13 Dec 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.
Squad13 Dec 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.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Too much change too quickly at Andijon
6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout13 Dec 2027
Asilbek Aliev has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Andijon will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout13 Dec 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom6 Dec 2027
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
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 Andijon, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad6 Dec 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.
Squad6 Dec 2027
Imeda Ashortia 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 dugout6 Dec 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.
Squad6 Dec 2027
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Odilbek Abdumajidov is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
Squad6 Dec 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.
The dugout6 Dec 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 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
Squad29 Nov 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.
Squad29 Nov 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.
Market29 Nov 2027
Sardor Azimov comes back from a loan that worked
28 appearances and 0 goals away from here, and a player the manager did not have in August. Loans are sent out hoping for exactly this and most of them do not deliver it.
Boardroom29 Nov 2027
102% of the income goes out in wages at Andijon
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
The dugout29 Nov 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 dugout29 Nov 2027
Sardor Azimov has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Andijon will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout29 Nov 2027
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Đorđe Jovanović has written the date down.
Market29 Nov 2027
The name of Usmonali Ismonaliyev keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Andijon say nothing, which says plenty.
Market29 Nov 2027
Andijon have made Abdulvohid G'ulomov available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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Uneasy
Squad22 Nov 2027
Abubakir Ashurov damages knee ligaments — 15 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 15 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.
Boardroom22 Nov 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.
Squad22 Nov 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.
Squad22 Nov 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 dugout22 Nov 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Đorđe Jovanović's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
Abbos G'ulomov 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 Abbos G'ulomov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout22 Nov 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 Imeda Ashortia is on it.
Loan watch22 Nov 2027
29 starts now, an average of 6.67, and the team sheet at Obod has stopped being a question. Exactly what everybody signed up for.
Market22 Nov 2027
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.
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Uneasy
Squad15 Nov 2027
22 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Andijon lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Andijon may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad15 Nov 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.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Humoyunmirzo Iminov 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.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Andijon 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 dugout15 Nov 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.
The dugout15 Nov 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.
The dugout15 Nov 2027
Abbos G'ulomov 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 Abbos G'ulomov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad8 Nov 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Abubakir Ashurov
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.
Boardroom8 Nov 2027
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Market8 Nov 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.
Squad8 Nov 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.
Squad8 Nov 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 dugout8 Nov 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.
Squad8 Nov 2027
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Sayfiddin Sodikov is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout8 Nov 2027
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
The dugout8 Nov 2027
The manager's exit leaves Nemanja Ćalasan exposed
Every squad has men who were signed by a particular manager and men who were merely inherited. Nemanja Ćalasan is in the first group, and the man who wanted him here is no longer in the building.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad1 Nov 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Abubakir Ashurov
36 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.
Squad1 Nov 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 Nov 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 dugout1 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Asilbek Aliev
“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.
Boardroom1 Nov 2027
90% of the income goes out in wages at Andijon
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
The dugout1 Nov 2027
Nemanja Ćalasan loses the manager who believed in him
A change in the dugout is not one story, it is twenty-five of them. This is Nemanja Ćalasan's: he was somebody's player, and now he has to be somebody else's, starting from nothing.
The dugout1 Nov 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.
Market1 Nov 2027
Mohir Komilov is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Andijon has been clear about where Mohir Komilov stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad1 Nov 2027
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Andijon has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad25 Oct 2027
Abubakir Ashurov damages knee ligaments — 44 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 44 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.
Boardroom25 Oct 2027
The scrutiny sharpens at Andijon
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Andijon is running low.
The dugout25 Oct 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.
Market25 Oct 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.
Squad25 Oct 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.
Squad25 Oct 2027
A row about effort at Andijon
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sayfiddin Sodikov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout25 Oct 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.
The dugout25 Oct 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Đorđe Jovanović's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
The dugout25 Oct 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 Imeda Ashortia is on it.
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Crisis
Match18 Oct 2027
The season ends: position 12 for Andijon
The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 31 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.
Squad18 Oct 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.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Nodirbek Karimov arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Nodirbek Karimov has, at Andijon, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Match16 Oct 2027
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad18 Oct 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.
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. 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.
The dugout18 Oct 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 dugout18 Oct 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Islom Ahmedov after 1‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Andijon 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.
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Uneasy
Market11 Oct 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.
The dugout11 Oct 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.
Transfer targets11 Oct 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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Andijon can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad11 Oct 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.
Squad11 Oct 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 dugout11 Oct 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.
Market11 Oct 2027
He signed expecting a bigger stage than the one he found. It has not taken long, and it has not taken the dressing room long to notice either.
The dugout11 Oct 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.
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Uneasy
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
Islom Ahmedov has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Andijon can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Player ratings4 Oct 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.41 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
The dugout4 Oct 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.
Player ratings4 Oct 2027
Marked 7.61 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad4 Oct 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 terraces4 Oct 2027
He is 19 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.
Match2 Oct 2027
Andijon get the job done against Obod
A 2‑0 win over Obod, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The dugout4 Oct 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.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
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Crisis
Squad27 Sep 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 10 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match25 Sep 2027
Chastening afternoon for Andijon
A 0‑3 beating by Navbahor was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Boardroom27 Sep 2027
The scrutiny sharpens at Andijon
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Andijon is running low.
Squad27 Sep 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.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Imeda Ashortia 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.
The dugout27 Sep 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.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Islom To'xtaxo'jayev will call it something else in private.
Boardroom27 Sep 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.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Uneasy
Match18 Sep 2027
A 2-goal lead gone for Andijon
It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Bukhara kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Andijon will be asked about the last half hour all week.
The dugout20 Sep 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.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Aleksandre Andronikashvili scored, was marked 7.81, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Squad20 Sep 2027
At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad20 Sep 2027
A falling-out at Andijon
Abbos G'ulomov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad20 Sep 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.
The dugout20 Sep 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Islom To'xtaxo'jayev, and the manager let it.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Imeda Ashortia was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.26. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
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Uneasy
Market13 Sep 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.
Squad13 Sep 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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Po'latxo'ja Xoldorxonov and Andijon agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout13 Sep 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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
A row about effort at Andijon
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sayfiddin Sodikov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout13 Sep 2027
Nobody at Andijon will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout13 Sep 2027
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Islom Ahmedov chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
The dugout13 Sep 2027
Nobody at Andijon is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
Match11 Sep 2027
Point won or two lost for Andijon?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Pakhtakor? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
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Uneasy
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Market6 Sep 2027
“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.
Market6 Sep 2027
Andijon say no — this time
The offer from Flora for Usmonali Ismonaliyev was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Andijon close the window on a squad of their own making
11 in and 13 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Muminhon Bahodirxonov is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad6 Sep 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.
Loan watch6 Sep 2027
Sardor Azimov is tired of being somebody else's player
“Another season, another badge, another dressing room to win over. I would like one pre-season at Andijon where somebody actually looks at me.” He belongs to Lokomotiv until the spell ends; the argument is with the club that owns him.
Squad6 Sep 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.
Transfer targets6 Sep 2027
The clock did what Neftchi would not, and ended it. Supporters who watched the countdown will spend the next window doing it again.
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Uneasy
Market30 Aug 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Bunyodkor waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Andijon is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market30 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.
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Andijon
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
No sign of nerves from Sayfiddin Sodikov at 19 — 7.91
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Sayfiddin Sodikov did not need any: 7.91, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad30 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 ratings30 Aug 2027
A hand in 2 of them from Damir Temirov — 7.68
Marked 7.68. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.
Squad30 Aug 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.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Marked 6.61 on 15 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
$9.0K on the table at Neftchi. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
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Crisis
Market23 Aug 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.
Market23 Aug 2027
Add another name to the list: Bunyodkor have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Martin Boakye. The answer from Andijon has not changed — yet.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Andijon
Abbos G'ulomov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
$8.0K was the most the club would pay and Neftchi were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Match21 Aug 2027
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout23 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.
Player ratings23 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 17. 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.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Islom To'xtaxo'jayev will call it something else in private.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
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Crisis
Market16 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.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Transfer targets16 Aug 2027
The offer went to Neftchi 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.
Squad16 Aug 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 targets16 Aug 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.
Squad16 Aug 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.
Match14 Aug 2027
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout16 Aug 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Abbos G'ulomov, and the manager let it.
Squad16 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.
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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.
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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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Crisis
Market26 Jul 2027
Lokomotiv 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 34 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings26 Jul 2027
Marked 7.85 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad26 Jul 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.
Match24 Jul 2027
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad26 Jul 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 Jul 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 dugout26 Jul 2027
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout26 Jul 2027
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
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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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Uneasy
Squad12 Jul 2027
22 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Andijon lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market12 Jul 2027
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Match10 Jul 2027
Chastening afternoon for Andijon
A 1‑4 beating by Nasaf was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Market12 Jul 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.
Squad12 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.
Squad12 Jul 2027
Rahimjon Davronov 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 dugout12 Jul 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.
Boardroom12 Jul 2027
Nobody left the Andijon dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Market12 Jul 2027
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
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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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Crisis
Squad28 Jun 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Abbos G'ulomov
37 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.
Squad28 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.
Squad28 Jun 2027
100 goals in the shirt for Martin Boakye
100 for the club now, each one filed in somebody’s memory with a date and a scoreline. Numbers like this are what supporters argue about in twenty years.
Match26 Jun 2027
Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad28 Jun 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.
Transfer targets28 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 dugout28 Jun 2027
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
The manager has not finished forgetting Islom To'xtaxo'jayev's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
The dugout28 Jun 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.
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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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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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Crisis
Squad7 Jun 2027
60 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Andijon lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match5 Jun 2027
Chastening afternoon for Andijon
A 0‑3 beating by Navbahor was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Match7 Jun 2027
Andijon sink to position 14
10 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market7 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
A fracture rules Shohruh Mirzaev out for 32 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Andijon will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match5 Jun 2027
5 matches without a win for Andijon
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Andijon are no longer polite ones.
Match5 Jun 2027
5 matches without a goal for Andijon
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 5 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad7 Jun 2027
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Andijon can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Martin Boakye 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.
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Crisis
Squad31 May 2027
68 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Andijon lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad31 May 2027
A fracture rules Shohruh Mirzaev out for 40 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Andijon will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad31 May 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.
Match29 May 2027
The wait goes on for Andijon
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match29 May 2027
The goals have deserted Andijon
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Andijon can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad31 May 2027
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.
Match29 May 2027
A bad afternoon for Andijon against Bukhara
0‑2 to Bukhara, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout31 May 2027
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Islom Ahmedov to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout31 May 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.
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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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Crisis
Squad17 May 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Abbos G'ulomov
83 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.
Squad17 May 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.
Squad17 May 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.
Match15 May 2027
Qizilqum left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout17 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Đorđe Jovanović, and the manager let it.
The dugout17 May 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Islom Ahmedov after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout17 May 2027
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
The dugout17 May 2027
A promise honoured at Andijon
Something was said to Humoyunmirzo Iminov and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Player ratings17 May 2027
Marked 5.10, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
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Crisis
Squad10 May 2027
Abbos G'ulomov damages knee ligaments — 90 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 90 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.
Market10 May 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.
Squad10 May 2027
A falling-out at Andijon
Aleksandre Andronikashvili and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout10 May 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.
Match8 May 2027
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout10 May 2027
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Squad10 May 2027
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luka Zunturovi 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.
Squad10 May 2027
One booking too many, and a game watched from the stand. Andijon lose him for the most avoidable reason in the sport.
The dugout10 May 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 Imeda Ashortia is on it.
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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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Crisis
Squad19 Apr 2027
Abbos G'ulomov damages knee ligaments — 116 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 116 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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
A falling-out at Andijon
Martin Boakye and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match17 Apr 2027
Bunyodkor left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Islom Ahmedov after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Squad19 Apr 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.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Miraziz Mahamadaliyev, and the manager let it.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
“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.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
Damir Temirov has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Andijon will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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Crisis
Squad12 Apr 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Abbos G'ulomov
123 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.
Match10 Apr 2027
Chastening afternoon for Andijon
A 0‑3 beating by Neftchi was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad12 Apr 2027
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.
Squad12 Apr 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 dugout12 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Nemanja Ćalasan
“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.
Boardroom12 Apr 2027
Nobody left the Andijon dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Squad12 Apr 2027
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Andijon can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
The dugout12 Apr 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.
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Steady
Match3 Apr 2027
The cup run ends for Andijon
4‑3 against Sogdiana, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.45 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad5 Apr 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Doniyor Abdumannopov commits to Andijon for another 3 years.
Squad5 Apr 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.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Muminhon Bahodirxonov is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Martin Boakye 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.
Match3 Apr 2027
Martin Boakye among the goals in a wild afternoon
7 goals in one match, Martin Boakye on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Andijon and Sogdiana.
The terraces5 Apr 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Po'latxo'ja Xoldorxonov 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.
The dugout5 Apr 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.
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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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Steady
Market22 Mar 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.
The dugout22 Mar 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.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Rafał Mamla in a row with a teammate
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.
Squad22 Mar 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 dugout22 Mar 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.
Squad22 Mar 2027
5 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.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 14. 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.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
Nobody at Andijon is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
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Steady
Squad15 Mar 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.
Squad15 Mar 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.
Squad15 Mar 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.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad15 Mar 2027
34 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout15 Mar 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.
Match13 Mar 2027
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
Abbos G'ulomov 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 Abbos G'ulomov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Islom Ahmedov was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Andijon dressing room was either.
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Upbeat
The dugout8 Mar 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.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
The board have signed the man in the dugout to a longer contract, which says more than any statement of support. Stability is easy to promise and costly to keep.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Islom To'xtaxo'jayev and Andijon agree another 2 years.
Squad8 Mar 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 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.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
Graduation day at Andijon
3 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Andijon can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Market8 Mar 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sardor Tukhtasinov has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
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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
Squad22 Feb 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.
Squad22 Feb 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 dugout22 Feb 2027
Nobody at Andijon will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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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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Squad8 Feb 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Luka Zunturovi arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Luka Zunturovi has, at Andijon, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad8 Feb 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Giorgi Meparishvili commits to Andijon for another 3 years.
Market8 Feb 2027
He is 20, and nobody at Andijon signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
Market8 Feb 2027
He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Miraziz Mahamadaliyev, and the manager let it.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Rafał Mamla 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.
The dugout8 Feb 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.
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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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Market18 Jan 2027
$1.1M — a new record at Andijon
No footballer has ever cost this club more, and the number will be read out every time he misplaces a pass for the next two years.
Market18 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 targets18 Jan 2027
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Navbahor is saying, and nobody at Andijon is enjoying the guessing.
Squad18 Jan 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 terraces18 Jan 2027
The town asked, and Andijon paid $1.1M
Abbos G'ulomov was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $1.1M. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.
Transfer targets18 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Andijon
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Imeda Ashortia was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
A loan enquiry to Neftchi: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Abdulvohid G'ulomov, and the manager let it.
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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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Market4 Jan 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Andijon
Islom To'xtaxo'jayev 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
Add another name to the list: Obod have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Asilbek Aliev. The answer from Andijon has not changed — yet.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Andijon asked and Rostov said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Asilbek Aliev commits to Andijon for another 4 years.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Rostov have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
The dugout4 Jan 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.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Sayfiddin Sodikov is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
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Upbeat
Squad28 Dec 2026
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.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Rafał Mamla
“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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Imeda Ashortia 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.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
111% of the income goes out in wages at Andijon
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Another 5 days on the injury, and a return date that has now been moved more than once. The medical staff have stopped giving one.
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Upbeat
Squad21 Dec 2026
Rafał Mamla 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.
Squad21 Dec 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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
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 Abdulvohid G'ulomov is on it.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Andijon
Rafał Mamla 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 dugout14 Dec 2026
Damir Temirov has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Andijon will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“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.
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Upbeat
Market7 Dec 2026
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.
Squad7 Dec 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 Dec 2026
Imeda Ashortia 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Po'latxo'ja Xoldorxonov commits to Andijon for another 4 years.
Squad7 Dec 2026
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Martin Boakye has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Po'latxo'ja Xoldorxonov, and the manager let it.
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Upbeat
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Asilbek Tojiddinov has agreed terms with Obod for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Andijon can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Andijon
Martin Boakye and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
131% of the income goes out in wages at Andijon
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad30 Nov 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 dugout30 Nov 2026
“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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
The dugout23 Nov 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.
Squad23 Nov 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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Imeda Ashortia, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad16 Nov 2026
Martin Boakye 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.
Squad16 Nov 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
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.
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Upbeat
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Andijon may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market9 Nov 2026
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.
Squad9 Nov 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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Rafał Mamla gets it from the manager
“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.
Squad9 Nov 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.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Atyrau to sit and watch. I want to come back to Andijon and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Sardor Azimov 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 Sardor Azimov is on it.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Sayfiddin Sodikov is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
Market9 Nov 2026
The name of Imeda Ashortia keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Andijon say nothing, which says plenty.
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Upbeat
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Andijon may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Rafał Mamla in a row with a teammate
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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages swallow 131% of the Andijon income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Loan watch2 Nov 2026
“I watch every Andijon game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Metallurg runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Martin Boakye 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 Martin Boakye trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Upbeat
Squad26 Oct 2026
35 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Rafał Mamla 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Imeda Ashortia 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
“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 dugout26 Oct 2026
Nobody at Andijon will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Age has not caught Dragan Ćeran yet — 8.21
At 39 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.21 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Martin Boakye 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
A 2‑1 win over Shortan, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad19 Oct 2026
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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.01, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Sardor Azimov 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 dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Islom Ahmedov kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Damir Temirov
“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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Every signing waits for it and every press conference asks about it until it comes. It has come, Andijon have their man off the mark, and the second one is always easier.
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Steady
Market12 Oct 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Asadbek Habibullayev will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Andijon the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad12 Oct 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Mohir Komilov is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Time is catching up with Dragan Ćeran
Everybody at Andijon saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 39 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Andijon are still strangers to each other
16 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.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“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 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Sardor Azimov 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 Sardor Azimov is on it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
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.
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Upbeat
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Andijon can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Andijon
Martin Boakye and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad5 Oct 2026
At 17 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 21. 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages swallow 168% of the Andijon income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Match3 Oct 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Doniyor Abdumannopov. 1‑0 against Obod, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Doniyor Abdumannopov was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.44. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad5 Oct 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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“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.
In brief
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Market
No place for Damir Temirov in the plan
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Player ratings
The chances came and went for Dragan Ćeran
From our football correspondent
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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Upbeat
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Andijon — 7.85
1 for Aleksandre Andronikashvili, marked 7.85, 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Martin Boakye 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Dragan Ćeran ran the middle of the pitch — 7.34
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 12 combined actions and a mark of 7.34, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
Match19 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Aleksandre Andronikashvili. 1‑0 against Bukhara, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
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.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
“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 2 appearances in 6 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Rahimjon Davronov
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Islom Ahmedov could afford to be generous.
Looking ahead21 Sep 2026
Andijon take on the side everybody is chasing
Navbahor arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.
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Steady
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.80 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market14 Sep 2026
Andijon say no — this time
The offer from Bukhara for Asilbek Aliev was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market14 Sep 2026
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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
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.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Rustam Turdimurodov 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 Sep 2026
Three points for Andijon, 2‑0 the final word against Pakhtakor in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Imeda Ashortia 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. 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.
In brief
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Squad
Andijon are still strangers to each other
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The dugout
A satisfied Islom Ahmedov
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Squad
The division's best last weekend was a Andijon man
From our football correspondent
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.
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Crisis
Squad31 Aug 2026
9 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.
Match26 Aug 2026
The small margins put Andijon out
Out, 0‑2 to Pakhtakor, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Market31 Aug 2026
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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Damir Temirov 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Korona, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad31 Aug 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
1‑3 to Qizilqum, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Pakhtakor have kept their man, and Andijon go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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Steady
Match19 Aug 2026
Andijon through in the cup
A 2‑0 win over Bunyodkor, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Marked 7.71 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Đorđe Jovanović gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Đorđe Jovanović has just signed for Andijon, and for once the answer mattered.
Market24 Aug 2026
Andijon say no — this time
The offer from Pakhtakor for Sardor Azimov was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market24 Aug 2026
“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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
16 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A hand in 2 of them from Sardor Azimov — 7.88
Marked 7.88. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Martin Boakye 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Still nobody has beaten Andijon
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
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Steady
Match12 Aug 2026
Cup progress for Andijon
A 3‑1 win over Sogdiana, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Asilbek Aliev, 17, steals the show — 9.28
Marked 9.28 at 17, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad17 Aug 2026
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market17 Aug 2026
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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Asadbek Habibullayev has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.
Squad17 Aug 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 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.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
At 17 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 31. 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Shakhter 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.
Squad10 Aug 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Andijon asked and Shakhtar 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 dugout10 Aug 2026
“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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Sardor Tukhtasinov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Bobur Ahmedov has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Shohruh Mirzaev 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Andijon
16 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
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Uneasy
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Dragan Ćeran and Andijon agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Andijon have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Dragan Ćeran 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Shakhtar have kept their man, and Andijon go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“74 caps was 74 more than the boy who started ever expected.” At 36 he has stepped away from the national side and has not stepped away from Andijon.
Market3 Aug 2026
36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Javor-Matis: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. 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.