From our football correspondent
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Squad15 Feb 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.
Boardroom15 Feb 2027
Obod will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Akmal Akhmedov has pre-agreed a move to Andijon, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. San Telmo have kept their man, and Andijon go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout15 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Abubakir Ashurov 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 dugout15 Feb 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 dugout15 Feb 2027
The manager makes Damir Temirov a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Andijon. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Market15 Feb 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Andijon would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
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Market8 Feb 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.
Squad8 Feb 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.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sogdiana have kept their man, and Andijon go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Andijon
Humoyunmirzo Iminov 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nodir Hasanov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout8 Feb 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Andijon will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
Sayfiddin Sodikov 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 dugout8 Feb 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 Imeda Ashortia has written the date down.
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Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Deadline passes with 2 signed and 2 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
Qizilqum 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 targets1 Feb 2027
The deal with Qizilqum 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.
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
18 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Andijon
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Doniyor Abdumannopov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
Andijon asked and Mashal said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market1 Feb 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Andijon will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
A loan move for Luis Montilla is in the works
Andijon have made the call to San Telmo. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
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Squad25 Jan 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
Nasaf pay $54.0K, 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.
Transfer targets25 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
The name of Asilbek Aliev has come up in conversations Andijon were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Abubakir Ashurov 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 targets25 Jan 2027
Andijon have made the call to Mashal. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
Andijon have made the call to Sogdiana. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad25 Jan 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jasur Tukhtasinov and Andijon agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout25 Jan 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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Market18 Jan 2027
Andijon say no — this time
The offer from Lokomotivi for Po'latxo'ja Xoldorxonov 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.
Squad18 Jan 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.
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
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Rostov have kept their man, and Andijon go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“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.
Market18 Jan 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Andijon will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Damir Temirov 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 dugout18 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 dugout18 Jan 2027
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
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Market11 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Andijon had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Colón, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad11 Jan 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Doniyor Abdumannopov 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 targets11 Jan 2027
Andijon asked and Shortan said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market11 Jan 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Nodir 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.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Andijon have made the call to Shortan. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
A loan enquiry to CSKA Moscow: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Bekzod Sulaymonov commits to Andijon for another 3 years.
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Upbeat
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Andijon may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market4 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The medical room confirms 46 days on the sidelines for Odilbek Abdumajidov, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market4 Jan 2027
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Bekzod Sulaymonov is a Andijon player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Squad4 Jan 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.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Andijon asked and Shortan 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
“The easiest signature of my career.” Shohjahon Yorqinboyev and Andijon agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
$665.2K on the table at Andijon
The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abubakir Ashurov 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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Upbeat
Market28 Dec 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.
Squad28 Dec 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.
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
Wages swallow 103% 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 dugout28 Dec 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.
Market28 Dec 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Imeda Ashortia signs something — a contract at Andijon or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Upbeat
Market21 Dec 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Doniyor Abdumannopov 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
“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.
The dugout21 Dec 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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
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Upbeat
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Andijon may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad14 Dec 2026
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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Damir Temirov and Andijon agree another 4 years.
Market14 Dec 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jaloliddin Hasanov 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Islom 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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Damir Temirov'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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Odil Akhmedov 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Ibrohim Yo'ldoshev’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Upbeat
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.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Odilbek Abdumajidov, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Miraziz Mahamadaliyev 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Damir Temirov 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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Market30 Nov 2026
“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.
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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Doniyor Abdumannopov 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.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Wages swallow 117% 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 dugout30 Nov 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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“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.
Market30 Nov 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Imeda Ashortia signs something — a contract at Andijon or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
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 Po'latxo'ja Xoldorxonov has written the date down.
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Upbeat
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“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.
Market23 Nov 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.
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.
Boardroom23 Nov 2026
Kokand 1912 will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Muhriddin Fazliddinov has pre-agreed a move to Andijon, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Andijon
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Odil Akhmedov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout23 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.
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
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 dugout16 Nov 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A window away with the national side, and a shirt at Andijon that briefly doubles as an advertisement. A call-up flatters the player and the club that built him in the same breath.
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Upbeat
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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Doniyor Abdumannopov 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sherzod Fayzullaev 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
The name of Doniyor Abdumannopov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Andijon say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout9 Nov 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 Sayfiddin Sodikov is on it.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
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Market2 Nov 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
117% 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Islom To'xtaxo'jayev 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.
Loan watch2 Nov 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 4 appearances in 12 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout2 Nov 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Odil Akhmedov 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 dugout2 Nov 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.
Market2 Nov 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Imeda Ashortia signs something — a contract at Andijon or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Upbeat
Market26 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.
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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Humoyunmirzo Iminov 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 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Andijon
15 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 dugout26 Oct 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“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.
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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Doniyor Abdumannopov 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
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Odilbek Abdumajidov, and the manager let it.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
A promise honoured at Andijon
Something was said to Odilbek Abdumajidov and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
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.
Market12 Oct 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ulugbek Abdullaev 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Aziz Shomurodov 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.
The dugout12 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Andijon
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Odil Akhmedov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“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.
Market12 Oct 2026
The name of Doniyor Abdumannopov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Andijon say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout12 Oct 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Imeda Ashortia joins up with his country. Andijon lose him for the window and would like him back in one piece.
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Upbeat
Market5 Oct 2026
“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 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
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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 165% of everything Andijon earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“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.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
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.
The dugout5 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.
Market5 Oct 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Imeda Ashortia signs something — a contract at Andijon or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
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Triumph
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Age has not caught Dragan Ćeran yet — 8.15
At 39 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.15 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match26 Sep 2026
Andijon cannot stop winning
4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market28 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.
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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Doniyor Abdumannopov 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Shortan made Andijon work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Match26 Sep 2026
Andijon keep winning on the road
3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.16 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
In brief
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Squad
Too much change too quickly at Andijon
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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The dugout
Imeda Ashortia knocks on the manager's door
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Upbeat
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.96 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match19 Sep 2026
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.
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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Three points for Andijon, 3‑1 the final word against Obod in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Andijon settle it inside twenty minutes
2 goals before the ground had finished arriving. Obod spent the rest of the afternoon playing a match that had already been decided, and everybody in the stadium knew it.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.25 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings21 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Dostonbek Mirzaev on a 3‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
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Upbeat
Market14 Sep 2026
Andijon say no — this time
The offer from Torpedo Kutaisi for Imeda Ashortia 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
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Isloch had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Squad14 Sep 2026
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 ratings14 Sep 2026
Age has not caught Dragan Ćeran yet — 8.48
At 38 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.48 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
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.
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.
Match12 Sep 2026
It finished 2‑1, and it was Dragan Ćeran’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Andijon.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Martin Boakye was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.48. 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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Dragan Ćeran had Andijon level again within 1 minutes, and Navbahor never got to play with a lead at all.
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Steady
Player ratings7 Sep 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market7 Sep 2026
“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 ratings7 Sep 2026
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 7.86 for the rest of it.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Andijon close the window on a squad of their own making
14 in and 3 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Doniyor Abdumannopov 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Muhammadkarim Toirov’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Andijon.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
“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
Market31 Aug 2026
“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.
Market31 Aug 2026
“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.
Market31 Aug 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.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
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.
Market31 Aug 2026
The name of Po'latxo'ja Xoldorxonov has come up in conversations Andijon were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Andijon asked and Almagro said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.00, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at Andijon
15 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
Match22 Aug 2026
Rustam Turdimurodov wins it after the whistle should have gone
90 minutes played. Rustam Turdimurodov found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Qizilqum went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
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.
Market24 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.
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.
Squad24 Aug 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.
Transfer targets24 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 terraces24 Aug 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Rustam Turdimurodov. 1‑0 against Qizilqum, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The dugout24 Aug 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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Uneasy
Match12 Aug 2026
Andijon out of the cup
Sogdiana ended it 4‑5. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Match12 Aug 2026
3 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Po'latxo'ja Xoldorxonov will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Andijon escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.69, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Market17 Aug 2026
Andijon say no — this time
The offer from Irtysh for Humoyunmirzo Iminov 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Age has not caught Dragan Ćeran yet — 8.01
At 38 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.01 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match15 Aug 2026
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.
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
Andijon offered $310.0K; Sogdiana said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Andijon training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Doniyor Abdumannopov 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market10 Aug 2026
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Zhetysu had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Market10 Aug 2026
Tobol 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.
Market10 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Andijon have gone to Sogdiana with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$99.0K on the table at Navbahor. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
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 offered $290.0K; AGMK said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Transfer targets10 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Amir Ismailov 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.
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Crisis
Market3 Aug 2026
Aktobe 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.
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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
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.
Squad3 Aug 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Zhetysu have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Po'latxo'ja Xoldorxonov. The answer from Andijon has not changed — yet.
Squad3 Aug 2026
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 targets3 Aug 2026
Andijon asked and Central Espanol said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match1 Aug 2026
Andijon come up short against AGMK
AGMK left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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.
In brief
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Squad
Andijon are still strangers to each other
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Market
Abubakir Ashurov told to find a new club