From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Shohruh Komilov has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Boardroom5 Jul 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.
Squad5 Jul 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.
Player ratings5 Jul 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.08, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad5 Jul 2027
32 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings5 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Jul 2027
The manager makes an example of Igor Golban
“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.
Match3 Jul 2027
A 1‑1 draw with Nasaf leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
Andijon pull $5.3K back off the table
The money that was there in the summer is not there now. Nobody upstairs calls this a change of ambition, and everybody downstairs reads it as one.
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Uneasy
Market28 Jun 2027
Damir Temirov 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.
Market28 Jun 2027
Add another name to the list: Sogdiana have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Miraziz Mahamadaliyev. The answer from Andijon has not changed — yet.
Squad28 Jun 2027
The medical room confirms 54 days on the sidelines for Islom To'xtaxo'jayev, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad28 Jun 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.
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
Defensive actions: 22. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad28 Jun 2027
“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.
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match26 Jun 2027
Metallurg made Andijon work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
Marked 8.13 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
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Crisis
Squad21 Jun 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.
Match19 Jun 2027
Leonel Ortíz scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Mashal, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad21 Jun 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aleksandre Andronikashvili, and the manager let it.
Loan watch21 Jun 2027
“I did not go to Obod to sit and watch. I want to come back to Andijon and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 21 matches say the rest.
Squad21 Jun 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.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market21 Jun 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.
Market21 Jun 2027
5 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Andijon could get for him.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
A mark of 5.71 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.
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Uneasy
Market14 Jun 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market14 Jun 2027
The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Pakhtakor moved on, Imeda Ashortia reports back to Andijon, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.
Market14 Jun 2027
Bunyodkor 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.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 25 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
Defensive actions: 25, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad14 Jun 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.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
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.
Match12 Jun 2027
It finished 1‑0, and it was Miraziz Mahamadaliyev’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Andijon.
Player ratings14 Jun 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.39, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Uneasy
Market7 Jun 2027
Andijon say no — this time
The offer from Lokomotiv 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.
Boardroom7 Jun 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.
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.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Jun 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
The medical room confirms 60 days on the sidelines for Sirojiddin Solijonov, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Defensive actions: 18, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad7 Jun 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings7 Jun 2027
Marked 7.64 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Andijon had the best player on the pitch.
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Uneasy
Market31 May 2027
Only the photograph left for Damir Temirov
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Damir Temirov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Andijon the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad31 May 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.
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.
Squad31 May 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.
Squad31 May 2027
The medical room confirms 41 days on the sidelines for Usmonali Ismonaliyev, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad31 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.
Player ratings31 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match29 May 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.
Market31 May 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
Squad24 May 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.
Player ratings24 May 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.97, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings24 May 2027
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.91, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings24 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Joshua John, and the manager let it.
Loan watch24 May 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 2 appearances in 17 say he has earned the hearing.
Match22 May 2027
It needed Humoyunmirzo Iminov to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Bukhara, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Player ratings24 May 2027
4.60 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
Squad24 May 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Islom To'xtaxo'jayev trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Crisis
Match15 May 2027
Beaten 0‑6 by Pakhtakor, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
The terraces17 May 2027
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 7 of the 28 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Squad17 May 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.
Squad17 May 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.
Squad17 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jamshid Boltaboev, and the manager let it.
Boardroom17 May 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.
Squad17 May 2027
Enrique Maza lets one through his hands
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Player ratings17 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom17 May 2027
88% 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.
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Uneasy
Player ratings10 May 2027
Defensive actions: 34. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad10 May 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.
Squad10 May 2027
“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.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match8 May 2027
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Qizilqum came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Squad10 May 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.
Market10 May 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Nemanja Ćalasan signs something — a contract at Andijon or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 10 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Market10 May 2027
The shop window has Joshua John in it
Andijon have let the market know Joshua John can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
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Uneasy
Squad3 May 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.
Player ratings3 May 2027
A performance of 9.07 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match1 May 2027
Kokand 1912 made Andijon work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad3 May 2027
95 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Marked 8.35 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad3 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Usmonali Ismonaliyev, and the manager let it.
Squad3 May 2027
Imeda Ashortia 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.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market3 May 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
Match24 Apr 2027
The wait goes on for Andijon
8 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.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad26 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.
Squad26 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.
Loan watch26 Apr 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 1 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
The one thing Martin Boakye could not do
Shots: 9, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Match24 Apr 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 Lokomotiv? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Squad26 Apr 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.
Market26 Apr 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Martin Boakye signs something — a contract at Andijon or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Crisis
Match17 Apr 2027
The wait goes on for Andijon
7 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.
Squad19 Apr 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.
Squad19 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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Martin Boakye, and the manager let it.
Match17 Apr 2027
A bad afternoon for Andijon against AGMK
0‑1 to AGMK, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom19 Apr 2027
Wages eat 92% 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 terraces19 Apr 2027
Everybody has an opinion about Martin Boakye
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
Market19 Apr 2027
7 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Andijon money.
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Uneasy
Match10 Apr 2027
The wait goes on for Andijon
6 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
A one-man rearguard from Enrique Maza
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.
Squad12 Apr 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 Apr 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.
Match10 Apr 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.
Squad12 Apr 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.
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Crisis
Match3 Apr 2027
Andijon bow out of the cup
Neftchi go through and Andijon go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Squad5 Apr 2027
Igor Golban: 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.
Match3 Apr 2027
The wait goes on for Andijon
5 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.
Squad5 Apr 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.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 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.
Loan watch5 Apr 2027
“I did not go to Madura United to sit and watch. I want to come back to Andijon and fight for my place.” 7 appearances in 12 matches say the rest.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
5.65 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
Market5 Apr 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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Crisis
Match27 Mar 2027
1‑4 to Sogdiana, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad29 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.
Squad29 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.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
A performance of 8.34 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom29 Mar 2027
Doors closed at Andijon
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Loan watch29 Mar 2027
“I did not go to Obod to sit and watch. I want to come back to Andijon and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
Squad29 Mar 2027
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Andijon have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Beaten 4 times, with 3 saves for company. Goalkeepers carry these scorelines on their record whoever actually caused them, which is the quiet injustice of the job.
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Uneasy
Squad22 Mar 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Andijon may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad22 Mar 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.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Defensive actions: 22. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad22 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.
Boardroom22 Mar 2027
99% 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.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 15. 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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Crisis
Match13 Mar 2027
Beaten 0‑3 by Metallurg, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Market15 Mar 2027
Joshua John 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Joshua John: 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.
The terraces15 Mar 2027
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 7 of the 28 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Squad15 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.
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
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.
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
“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.
Boardroom15 Mar 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.
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Uneasy
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 31 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad8 Mar 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.
Market8 Mar 2027
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market8 Mar 2027
As if he never left: Aziz Nematov returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Aziz Nematov is a Andijon player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Market8 Mar 2027
The shirt still fits. Sardor Ismailov is back at Andijon, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market8 Mar 2027
As if he never left: Aziz Ismailov returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Aziz Ismailov is a Andijon player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
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.
Match6 Mar 2027
A 2‑0 win over Mashal, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad8 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Enrique Maza
“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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Uneasy
Squad1 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Joshua John 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.
Loan watch1 Mar 2027
“I did not go to Obod to sit and watch. I want to come back to Andijon and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Market1 Mar 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Humoyunmirzo Iminov signs something — a contract at Andijon or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Squad1 Mar 2027
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Andijon would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
Market1 Mar 2027
10 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
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Uneasy
Market22 Feb 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad22 Feb 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.
Boardroom22 Feb 2027
Wages eat 116% 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match15 Feb 2027
Every point is an argument now for Andijon
Position 14 and 5 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Market15 Feb 2027
Add another name to the list: Atyrau have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Po'latxo'ja Xoldorxonov. The answer from Andijon has not changed — yet.
Squad15 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Igor Golban, and the manager let it.
Market15 Feb 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Jamshid Boltaboev’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Market15 Feb 2027
The window shut and Imeda Ashortia is still in the building
Andijon spent a month trying to move him and nobody rang back. He trains with a squad that has told him where he stands, and both sides start counting down to the next one.
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Uneasy
Market8 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.
Squad8 Feb 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.
Squad8 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Persija are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Andijon will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Market8 Feb 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Nemanja Ćalasan signs something — a contract at Andijon or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Market8 Feb 2027
Andijon spent the window trying to move Sirojiddin Solijonov on and nobody came. He trains with a squad that has already told him he is not part of it, and both sides now wait for the next one.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
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.
Market1 Feb 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
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
14 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad1 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Joshua John
“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.
Market1 Feb 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Humoyunmirzo Iminov signs something — a contract at Andijon or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market25 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
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.
Squad25 Jan 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
Add another name to the list: Mashal have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Abdulvohid G'ulomov. The answer from Andijon has not changed — yet.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
Wages eat 140% 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.
Squad25 Jan 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match18 Jan 2027
Andijon sink to position 14
5 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad18 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Hamzaxon Xo'jayev commits to Andijon for another 3 years.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad11 Jan 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
The fee is $45.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Kokand 1912 drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“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.
Market11 Jan 2027
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Damir Temirov has his answer from Andijon; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Farraj Al-Rashid and Andijon agree another 3 years.
Market11 Jan 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Nemanja Ćalasan signs something — a contract at Andijon or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market4 Jan 2027
Igor Golban 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.
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.
Market4 Jan 2027
Imeda Ashortia 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 Imeda Ashortia stands, which is more than many ever get.
Market4 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.
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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Joshua John 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market28 Dec 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.
Market28 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.
Squad28 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.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
270% 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.
Squad28 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.
Market28 Dec 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Martin Boakye signs something — a contract at Andijon or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match21 Dec 2026
Every point is an argument now for Andijon
Position 14 and 5 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Market21 Dec 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.
Squad21 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market14 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.
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
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ibrohim Yo'ldoshev, and the manager let it.
Squad14 Dec 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.
Market14 Dec 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Nemanja Ćalasan signs something — a contract at Andijon or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Market14 Dec 2026
Andijon have made Rahimjon Davronov available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
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
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Andijon may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad30 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.
Market30 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Aleksandre Andronikashvili 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.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
360% 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
Damir Temirov 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Abdurahmon Komilov, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match23 Nov 2026
Andijon sink to position 14
5 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad23 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.
Market23 Nov 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market16 Nov 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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Aleksandre Andronikashvili 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
“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.
Market16 Nov 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Nemanja Ćalasan signs something — a contract at Andijon or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Market16 Nov 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Rahimjon Davronov may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
Market16 Nov 2026
2 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Andijon could get for him.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market9 Nov 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.
Squad9 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.
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.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
“I did not go to Aktobe to sit and watch. I want to come back to Andijon and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
Squad9 Nov 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“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
Squad2 Nov 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Andijon may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market2 Nov 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
360% 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
Joshua John 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“I want to play”: Joshua John speaks
“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match26 Oct 2026
Andijon sink to position 14
5 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market26 Oct 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Abdurahmon Komilov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Andijon the goodbyes have quietly begun.
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.
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Uneasy
Market19 Oct 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.
Market19 Oct 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Odilbek Abdumajidov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Andijon the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad19 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.
Squad19 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.
Market19 Oct 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Nemanja Ćalasan signs something — a contract at Andijon or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Andijon would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
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Uneasy
Market12 Oct 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Rahimjon Davronov 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.
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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jefferson Ramos and Andijon agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad12 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
3 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Andijon money.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market5 Oct 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.
Squad5 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
605% 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Behruz Haydarov and Andijon agree another 3 years.
Squad5 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.
Market5 Oct 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Martin Boakye signs something — a contract at Andijon or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match26 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Andijon
10 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 35. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match28 Sep 2026
Every point is an argument now for Andijon
Position 14 and 5 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Market28 Sep 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.
Squad28 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad28 Sep 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Shots: 7. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
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Crisis
Match19 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Andijon's wait for a win
9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Andijon has to find a result from somewhere.
Market21 Sep 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Aleksandre Andronikashvili 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
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match19 Sep 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Joshua John
“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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Shots: 11. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“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.
Market21 Sep 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Nemanja Ćalasan signs something — a contract at Andijon or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match12 Sep 2026
8 matches without a win for Andijon
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Andijon are no longer polite ones.
Market14 Sep 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match12 Sep 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad14 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
The one thing Martin Boakye could not do
Shots: 10, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Market14 Sep 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Humoyunmirzo Iminov signs something — a contract at Andijon or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Market14 Sep 2026
The clock does Rahimjon Davronov’s negotiating for him
4 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Andijon could ask drops and the wages Rahimjon Davronov can ask rise.
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Uneasy
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.
Match5 Sep 2026
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.
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.
Market7 Sep 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
687% 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Defensive actions: 20. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A mark of 7.85, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad7 Sep 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
Crisis
Market31 Aug 2026
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.
Match29 Aug 2026
The wait goes on for Andijon
6 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.
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.
Market31 Aug 2026
Sogdiana pay $98.0K, 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.
Squad31 Aug 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.
Match29 Aug 2026
0‑1 to Pakhtakor, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ibrohim Yo'ldoshev, and the manager let it.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market24 Aug 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market24 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.
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
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Igor Golban, and the manager let it.
Match22 Aug 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad24 Aug 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Andijon have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Market24 Aug 2026
The shop window has Igor Golban in it
Andijon have let the market know Igor Golban can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match12 Aug 2026
Andijon out of the cup
Sogdiana ended it 1‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Rahimjon Davronov: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Market17 Aug 2026
Zhetysu 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.
Market17 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.
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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 25. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 24, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Crisis
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Rahimjon Davronov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Andijon the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market10 Aug 2026
Shortan 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
The phone has started ringing about Imeda Ashortia again, and this time the name on the line is Mashal. Andijon are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad10 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad10 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Imeda Ashortia 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
Market3 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.
Market3 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. 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
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.
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
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 ratings3 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.69, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Marked 8.66 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad3 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.