26 Sep 2027
Sunday
Process
60 Edition

The AGMK Courier

20 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nodirbek Abdurazzoqov beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 22. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

A falling-out at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Another clean sheet for Javohir Ilyosov

9 shut-outs and counting. Goalkeepers are only noticed when they fail, and Javohir Ilyosov has given nobody the chance.

Squad

Ahmadullo Muqumjonov 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 dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Doniyor Mirzaev was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the AGMK dressing room was either.

Squad

Farhod Suyunov, 16, is the weekend’s best young player

Measured against every other kid in the division and first among them. The senior award is where AGMK would like this to lead.

Match

AGMK draw a blank against Nasaf

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Nasaf defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

Market

The Aziz Xolmurodov story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Aziz Xolmurodov signs something — a contract at AGMK or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout

The plan did not have a place for Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev

Nobody at AGMK is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.

In brief

Back issues
59 Edition

The AGMK Courier

13 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

AGMK run riot against Metallurg

4‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings

Both of them Ali Abdurahmonov's — 9.30

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.30, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Bobur Fayzullaev could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 7.49

Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 7.49, 0 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.

Player ratings

Farhod Suyunov, 16, steals the show — 8.37

Marked 8.37 at 16, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Market

Only the photograph left for Rian Islomov

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Rian Islomov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AGMK the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Words exchanged at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The terraces

One of their own: Nodirbek Abdurazzoqov

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Player ratings

Hazratjon Tursunqulov beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev 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.

In brief

58 Edition

The AGMK Courier

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Nodirbek Abdurazzoqov

Successful dribbles: 35. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Boardroom

Window shuts: 8 in, 5 out at AGMK

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 8 arrived, 5 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Uroš Kojić

15 goals and a season average of 7.41 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Squad

Tempers go at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev 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 terraces

AGMK supporters have found a favourite in Ali Abdurahmonov

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Ali Abdurahmonov 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.

Squad

Words at AGMK training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings

Ali Abdurahmonov was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.14. 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.

The dugout

No place for Uroš Kojić on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at AGMK pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 97% of the AGMK 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.

In brief

57 Edition

The AGMK Courier

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Asadbek Sobirjonov agrees terms with Obod

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around AGMK people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Squad

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

No hiding place for Siavash Haghnazari

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Siavash Haghnazari, and the manager let it.

Match

AGMK get the job done against Shortan

A 1‑0 win over Shortan, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Behruzbek Asqarov

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Nodirbek Abdurazzoqov in the eights

A performance of 8.13 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Ali Abdurahmonov at his very best

Marked 8.05. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at AGMK.

Squad

Words at AGMK training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ahmadullo Muqumjonov 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.

Squad

Javohir Ilyosov shuts the door again

8 clean sheets and counting. Strikers leave this ground muttering his name, which is exactly how a goalkeeper measures a good season.

In brief

56 Edition

The AGMK Courier

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Obod come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and AGMK did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Hamidullo Abdunabiyev is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AGMK is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

A falling-out at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Aziz Xolmurodov the difference as AGMK beat Obod

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Aziz Xolmurodov. 3‑1 against Obod, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The terraces

One of their own: Aziz Xolmurodov

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Aziz Xolmurodov

Marked 8.83 — 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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Nodirbek Abdurazzoqov

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.42, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

A row about effort at AGMK

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings

One of those days for Ali Abdurahmonov

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.17, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

In brief

55 Edition

The AGMK Courier

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

9 saves: Javohir Ilyosov was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Market

Rian Islomov has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AGMK they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market

Ulug'bek Sunnatov comes home

The shirt still fits. Ulug'bek Sunnatov is back at AGMK, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Squad

Words exchanged at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev 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.

Squad

Ulug'bek Sunnatov arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Ulug'bek Sunnatov has, at AGMK, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Match

AGMK come up short against Navbahor

Navbahor left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev 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 dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Doniyor Mirzaev left the room before anybody could ask which.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Mirjamol Qosimov'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.

In brief

54 Edition

The AGMK Courier

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Aziz Xolmurodov leads the rout of Bukhara

5‑0, and Aziz Xolmurodov took the headlines on an afternoon when everything AGMK tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings

Aziz Xolmurodov scores twice — 8.90

Two goals and a mark of 8.90 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Asadbek Sobirjonov has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AGMK they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Uroš Kojić is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.41 with 15 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad

Uroš Kojić out for 29 days

The medical room confirms 29 days on the sidelines for Uroš Kojić, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Transfer targets

Ulug'bek Sunnatov due for a AGMK medical

Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

Tempers go at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev 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 ratings

Ali Abdurahmonov in the eights

A performance of 9.47 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Ali Abdurahmonov

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

In brief

53 Edition

The AGMK Courier

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

AGMK say no — this time

The offer from Irtysh for Ali Abdurahmonov 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.

Squad

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

A bad afternoon for AGMK against Andijon

1‑2 to Andijon, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings

Behruzbek Asqarov beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 17. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

Doniyor Mirzaev faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Doniyor Mirzaev after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Squad

A step back for Hamidullo Abdunabiyev at AGMK

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

Player ratings

Aziz Xolmurodov could have had three

13 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Umidjon Ergashev

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

52 Edition

The AGMK Courier

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Javohir Ilyosov stands alone

9 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Market

Obod come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and AGMK did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Hamidullo Abdunabiyev is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AGMK is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Boardroom

Hamidullo Abdunabiyev signs for Navbahor while still at AGMK

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Hamidullo Abdunabiyev has agreed terms with Navbahor for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad

A falling-out at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

A bad afternoon for AGMK against Qizilqum

0‑2 to Qizilqum, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev 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 dugout

Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev 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.

Boardroom

Wages eat 95% of everything AGMK 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.

In brief

51 Edition

The AGMK Courier

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Doniyor Ahmedov

19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. AGMK lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Asadbek Sobirjonov agrees terms with Obod

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around AGMK people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Squad

Words exchanged at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Aziz Xolmurodov

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad

Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings

One of those days for Aziz Xolmurodov

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.10, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Match

No time for Kokand 1912 to settle

The goal that put Kokand 1912 ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when AGMK equalised, 4 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.

Player ratings

Behruzbek Asqarov was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 16. 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.

Match

Honours even between AGMK and Kokand 1912

2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief

50 Edition

The AGMK Courier

12 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Doniyor Ahmedov damages knee ligaments — 28 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 28 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Uroš Kojić out for 59 days

The medical room confirms 59 days on the sidelines for Uroš Kojić, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Uroš Kojić

15 goals and a season average of 7.41 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Player ratings

Nodirbek Abdurazzoqov beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 24. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market

Rian Islomov has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AGMK they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Tempers go at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev 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.

Match

AGMK see off Lokomotiv

Three points for AGMK, 3‑1 the final word against Lokomotiv in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Market

AGMK promote Islom Abdullaev from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Islom 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.

Market

One of our own: Eldor Mirzaev joins the AGMK first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Eldor Mirzaev is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief

49 Edition

The AGMK Courier

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Eyes on Ali Abdurahmonov again

The phone has started ringing about Ali Abdurahmonov again, and this time the name on the line is Fakel. AGMK are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

The Asadbek Sobirjonov conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Obod will make the call about Asadbek Sobirjonov this week. AGMK have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Match

Behruzbek Asqarov sends AGMK past Pakhtakor

It finished 1‑0, and it was Behruzbek Asqarov’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to AGMK.

Player ratings

Behruzbek Asqarov in the eights

A performance of 8.23 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

Words at AGMK training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev 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 dugout

Ali Abdurahmonov 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.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Giorgi Papava

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. AGMK told Giorgi Papava something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Boardroom

AGMK sign 6 boys into the academy

None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.

In brief

48 Edition

The AGMK Courier

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Eldorbek Begimov turns Nasaf down

“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.

Market

Mirjamol Qosimov puts it in writing

“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 AGMK, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Uroš Kojić

14 goals and a season average of 7.40 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Squad

A falling-out at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Words at AGMK training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings

Uroš Kojić in the eights

A performance of 8.08 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev

“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.

Boardroom

Wages eat 100% of everything AGMK 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.

Match

Honours even between AGMK and Bunyodkor

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief

47 Edition

The AGMK Courier

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Asadbek Sobirjonov has said yes to Obod

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. AGMK have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market

Alashkert come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and AGMK did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Match

The run is over for AGMK

12 matches without defeat, and then Neftchi. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.

Squad

Javohir Ilyosov keeps AGMK in it on his own

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.

Squad

Words exchanged at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev 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.

Market

Eldorbek Begimov attracts admirers

The name of Eldorbek Begimov has come up in conversations AGMK were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Match

AGMK come up short against Neftchi

Neftchi left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

Siavash Haghnazari 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.

Squad

Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev 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.

In brief

46 Edition

The AGMK Courier

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

AGMK sell their best player to Pakhtakor

$1.2M is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.

Player ratings

Uroš Kojić scores twice — 9.02

Two goals and a mark of 9.02 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match

Still nobody has beaten AGMK

The unbeaten run reaches 12. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Player ratings

Nodirbek Abdurazzoqov was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 27. 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.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Javohir Ilyosov

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.

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $1.2M sale of Naoaki Senaga

He is going to Pakhtakor, the club has $1.2M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Market

AGMK turn down Nasaf for Sherzodjon Komilov

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

The dugout

Umidjon Ergashev: 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.” AGMK have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Only the photograph left for Rian Islomov

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Rian Islomov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AGMK the goodbyes have quietly begun.

In brief

45 Edition

The AGMK Courier

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Nodirbek Abdurazzoqov runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Naoaki Senaga has said yes to Pakhtakor

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. AGMK have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market

Pakhtakor come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and AGMK did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Only the photograph left for Asadbek Sobirjonov

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Asadbek Sobirjonov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AGMK the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Match

Still nobody has beaten AGMK

The unbeaten run reaches 11. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Match

AGMK make home a hard place to visit

13 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Squad

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Nasaf join the queue for Sherzodjon Komilov

Add another name to the list: Nasaf have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Sherzodjon Komilov. The answer from AGMK has not changed — yet.

The dugout

No hiding place for Asadbek Sobirjonov

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Asadbek Sobirjonov, and the manager let it.

In brief

44 Edition

The AGMK Courier

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

A brace, and Uroš Kojić takes the afternoon — 9.59

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Uroš Kojić provided it, and the 9.59 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Match

Still nobody has beaten AGMK

The unbeaten run reaches 10. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad

A falling-out at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

AGMK find a way past Metallurg

Metallurg made AGMK work for it, but the scoreboard read 4‑3 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Match

7 goals as AGMK and Metallurg go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between AGMK and Metallurg, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Uroš Kojić

11 goals and a season average of 7.35 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Squad

A row about effort at AGMK

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Asadbek Sobirjonov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings

Nodirbek Abdurazzoqov in the eights

A performance of 8.37 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 92% of the AGMK 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.

In brief

43 Edition

The AGMK Courier

24 May 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

AGMK run riot against Mashal

5‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings

Both of them Uroš Kojić's — 9.57

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.57, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match

Whatever happens, AGMK do not lose

9 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Match

AGMK make home a hard place to visit

12 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Squad

Words exchanged at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev 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.

Match

6 goals as AGMK and Mashal go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between AGMK and Mashal, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Squad

Words at AGMK training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Asadbek Sobirjonov 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 terraces

One of their own: Uroš Kojić

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

The dugout

Giorgi Papava 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.

In brief

42 Edition

The AGMK Courier

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Shortan punish AGMK for switching off

2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Nodirbek Abdurazzoqov will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at AGMK escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.

Match

Whatever happens, AGMK do not lose

8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Market

Rian Islomov is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AGMK is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Tempers go at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev 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 dugout

Siavash Haghnazari 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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Mirjamol Qosimov

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.32, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

AGMK count the cost of losing Javohir Nabiyev

20 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Nodirbek Abdurazzoqov at his very best

Marked 8.16. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at AGMK.

In brief

41 Edition

The AGMK Courier

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

AGMK tear Obod apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against Obod, and it could have been more.

Market

Asadbek Sobirjonov is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AGMK is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Player ratings

Mirjamol Qosimov scores twice — 8.26

Two goals and a mark of 8.26 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Naoaki Senaga beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 24. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

AGMK cannot stop winning

3 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.

Squad

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Asadbek Sobirjonov 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 terraces

AGMK supporters have found a favourite in Nodirbek Abdurazzoqov

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Nodirbek Abdurazzoqov 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.

Match

AGMK are at home on the road

3 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.

In brief

40 Edition

The AGMK Courier

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Both of them Uroš Kojić's — 8.94

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.94, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match

Nobody wins at AGMK

11 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Squad

A falling-out at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Whatever happens, AGMK do not lose

6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad

A row about effort at AGMK

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Asadbek Sobirjonov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

AGMK get the job done against Navbahor

A 2‑1 win over Navbahor, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

Nodirbek Abdurazzoqov beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

No hiding place for Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev, and the manager let it.

Boardroom

85% of the income goes out in wages at AGMK

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.

In brief

39 Edition

The AGMK Courier

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

A brace, and Uroš Kojić takes the afternoon — 9.28

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Uroš Kojić provided it, and the 9.28 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Words exchanged at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev 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.

Match

AGMK find a way past Bukhara

Bukhara made AGMK work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev 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 dugout

A satisfied Doniyor Mirzaev

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑1, Doniyor Mirzaev could afford to be generous.

Market

Abror Sarimsoqov told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Abror Sarimsoqov has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at AGMK.

The dugout

Sherzodjon Komilov 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.

Player ratings

The one thing Aziz Xolmurodov 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.

The dugout

Asadbek Sobirjonov does not fit this one

Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.

In brief

38 Edition

The AGMK Courier

19 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Umidjon Ergashev: 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.” AGMK have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Rian Islomov has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AGMK they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Match

Nobody wins at AGMK

10 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Squad

Words exchanged at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev 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.

Squad

Javohir Nabiyev out for 48 days

The medical room confirms 48 days on the sidelines for Javohir Nabiyev, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Hamidullo Abdunabiyev

“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 ratings

Nodirbek Abdurazzoqov runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Doniyor Mirzaev chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.

In brief

37 Edition

The AGMK Courier

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Siavash Haghnazari out for 15 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AGMK will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Only the photograph left for Asadbek Sobirjonov

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Asadbek Sobirjonov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AGMK the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

A falling-out at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The terraces

AGMK supporters have found a favourite in Uroš Kojić

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Uroš Kojić 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.

Match

AGMK get the job done against Qizilqum

A 2‑0 win over Qizilqum, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Market

Nodir Ganiev steps up from the AGMK academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Nodir Ganiev 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 dugout

No hiding place for Asadbek Sobirjonov

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Asadbek Sobirjonov, and the manager let it.

Squad

A row about effort at AGMK

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings

Uroš Kojić was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.16. 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.

In brief

36 Edition

The AGMK Courier

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

22 days out for Siavash Haghnazari after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. AGMK will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Match

The small margins put AGMK out

Out, 2‑2 to Bukhara, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Match

AGMK let it slip despite Aziz Xolmurodov

Aziz Xolmurodov had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Kokand 1912 were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.

Player ratings

Both of them Uroš Kojić's — 9.04

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.04, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

A brace, and Aziz Xolmurodov takes the afternoon — 8.78

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Aziz Xolmurodov provided it, and the 8.78 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Hamidullo Abdunabiyev is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Hamidullo Abdunabiyev: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Player ratings

Naoaki Senaga beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 29. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Match

4 matches without a win for AGMK

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around AGMK are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

35 Edition

The AGMK Courier

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

29 days out for Siavash Haghnazari after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. AGMK will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

Tempers go at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev 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 ratings

Nodirbek Abdurazzoqov was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 19. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match

AGMK come up short against Lokomotiv

Lokomotiv left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev 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 dugout

Ali Abdurahmonov 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.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Doniyor Mirzaev left the room before anybody could ask which.

The dugout

No place in the plan for Giorgi Papava

The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

Player ratings

Aziz Xolmurodov keeps on missing

Shots: 8, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.

In brief

34 Edition

The AGMK Courier

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Siavash Haghnazari breaks a bone — 38 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 38 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

The dugout

Ali Abdurahmonov says AGMK went back on their word

“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.

Squad

Javohir Ilyosov stands alone

7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Market

Rian Islomov is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AGMK is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Words exchanged at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev 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.

Squad

A row about effort at AGMK

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Honours even between AGMK and Pakhtakor

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

The dugout

Doniyor Mirzaev on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Doniyor Mirzaev after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

The dugout

Umidjon Ergashev 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.

In brief

33 Edition

The AGMK Courier

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

45 days out for Siavash Haghnazari after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. AGMK will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Asadbek Sobirjonov is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AGMK is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

A falling-out at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

AGMK get the job done against Bunyodkor

A 3‑2 win over Bunyodkor, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The terraces

AGMK supporters have found a favourite in Uroš Kojić

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Uroš Kojić 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.

Squad

Words at AGMK training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Mirjamol Qosimov

Marked 8.02 — 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Naoaki Senaga

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Doniyor Mirzaev, on a 3‑2 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

In brief

32 Edition

The AGMK Courier

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

53 days out for Siavash Haghnazari after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. AGMK will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

11 saves: Javohir Ilyosov was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 11 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Market

Ali Abdurahmonov turns Dinamo Brest down

“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.

Boardroom

An order from above at AGMK: somebody has to go

Balance sheets do not care about form or about who the manager was planning to build around. The board have decided a sale is required, and the only question left is which name ends up carrying it.

Squad

Giorgi Papava stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Giorgi Papava and AGMK agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Aziz Xolmurodov’s goal not enough for AGMK

Aziz Xolmurodov scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Neftchi, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Boardroom

A promise the AGMK board did not keep

There was a commitment, there was a date, and the date went past. Trust at a football club takes years to build and one afternoon to spend.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

31 Edition

The AGMK Courier

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Siavash Haghnazari breaks a bone — 60 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 60 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Tempers go at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev 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.

Market

Dinamo Brest are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. AGMK will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Squad

Words at AGMK training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ahmadullo Muqumjonov 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.

Looking ahead

Avazbek O'lmasaliyev faces his old club

Neftchi next, and one man in the AGMK dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

Market

Mirjamol Qosimov placed on the list

AGMK have made Mirjamol Qosimov available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief

30 Edition

The AGMK Courier

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

67 days out for Siavash Haghnazari after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. AGMK will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Rian Islomov has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AGMK they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market

Eyes on Ali Abdurahmonov again

The phone has started ringing about Ali Abdurahmonov again, and this time the name on the line is Dinamo Brest. AGMK are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Words exchanged at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev 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.

Squad

Words at AGMK training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ahmadullo Muqumjonov 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.

Market

The Aziz Xolmurodov question follows AGMK around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Aziz Xolmurodov’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

29 Edition

The AGMK Courier

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Siavash Haghnazari breaks a bone — 75 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 75 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Asadbek Sobirjonov is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AGMK is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

A falling-out at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

A row about effort at AGMK

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

When it matters, Naoaki Senaga plays

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.

Market

The Uroš Kojić question follows AGMK around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Uroš Kojić’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

28 Edition

The AGMK Courier

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

82 days out for Siavash Haghnazari after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. AGMK will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

AGMK turn down Neftekhimik for Ali Abdurahmonov

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Kirill Kosarev rejects the move

AGMK had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Zenit, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Sherzodjon Komilov

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

27 Edition

The AGMK Courier

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A fracture rules Siavash Haghnazari out for 90 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AGMK will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

AGMK say no — this time

The offer from Obod for Asadbek Sobirjonov 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.

Market

Terms done: Rian Islomov is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Sogdiana waiting with a shirt. Nobody at AGMK is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market

Abror Karimov puts it in writing

“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 AGMK, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom

AGMK close the window on a squad of their own making

1 in and 0 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.

Transfer targets

Kirill Kosarev is a medical away from AGMK

The deal with Zenit 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.

Transfer targets

David Davidyan will not be coming to AGMK

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Rotor is saying, and nobody at AGMK is enjoying the guessing.

Squad

Tempers go at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Transfer targets

NK Maribor tell AGMK: Matej Tadič is not for sale

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.

In brief

26 Edition

The AGMK Courier

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A fracture rules Siavash Haghnazari out for 97 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AGMK will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Naoaki Senaga puts it in writing

“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 AGMK, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Words exchanged at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev 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 targets

Madryn tell AGMK: Nicolás Servetto is not for sale

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.

Squad

Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev 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 dugout

Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev 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.

Transfer targets

A loan move for David Davidyan is in the works

AGMK have made the call to Rotor. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

The dugout

Avazbek O'lmasaliyev 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 AGMK, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Squad

No place for Muhammadjon Valiyev in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation AGMK are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

In brief

25 Edition

The AGMK Courier

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A fracture rules Siavash Haghnazari out for 104 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AGMK will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Terms done: Asadbek Sobirjonov is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Obod waiting with a shirt. Nobody at AGMK is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market

Ali Abdurahmonov turns Shirak down

“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.

Squad

A falling-out at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Muhammadjon Valiyev arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Muhammadjon Valiyev has, at AGMK, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Transfer targets

AGMK rebuffed over Pedro Ataíde

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. APOEL have kept their man, and AGMK go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Ahmadullo Muqumjonov 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 targets

AGMK try to borrow Nicolás Servetto

Madryn have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

The dugout

Umidjon Ergashev 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.

In brief

24 Edition

The AGMK Courier

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Siavash Haghnazari breaks a bone — 111 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 111 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Eyes on Ali Abdurahmonov again

The phone has started ringing about Ali Abdurahmonov again, and this time the name on the line is Alashkert. AGMK are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Obod expected to open talks for Asadbek Sobirjonov

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. AGMK will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Mohamed Kanté

AGMK asked and Dila said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

A row about effort at AGMK

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ahmadullo Muqumjonov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

AGMK ask about Matej Tadič

A loan enquiry to NK Maribor: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

The dugout

Mirjamol Qosimov has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at AGMK 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.

Market

Still no ink between AGMK and Hamidullo Abdunabiyev

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at AGMK, another week without a signature from Hamidullo Abdunabiyev.

In brief

23 Edition

The AGMK Courier

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Siavash Haghnazari breaks a bone — 118 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 118 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Asadbek Sobirjonov puts it in writing

“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 AGMK, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

AGMK turn down Pakhtakor for Uroš Kojić

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Tempers go at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Transfer targets

AGMK rebuffed over Malik Odeyinka

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Alashkert have kept their man, and AGMK go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev 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.

Squad

Sherzodjon Komilov signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sherzodjon Komilov commits to AGMK for another 3 years.

Market

Naoaki Senaga told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Naoaki Senaga has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at AGMK.

The dugout

When it matters, Abror Karimov plays

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.

In brief

22 Edition

The AGMK Courier

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Siavash Haghnazari breaks a bone — 126 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 126 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Words exchanged at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev 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.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 134% of the AGMK 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.

Squad

A row about effort at AGMK

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ahmadullo Muqumjonov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Akbar O'ktamov has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at AGMK 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 dugout

Umidjon Ergashev has been promised minutes

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 Umidjon Ergashev has written the date down.

In brief

21 Edition

The AGMK Courier

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Siavash Haghnazari breaks a bone — 135 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 135 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Akbar O'ktamov has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AGMK they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

The dugout

Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev 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.

Squad

A row about effort at AGMK

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ahmadullo Muqumjonov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Naoaki Senaga has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at AGMK 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.

Market

The Aziz Xolmurodov story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Aziz Xolmurodov signs something — a contract at AGMK or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

20 Edition

The AGMK Courier

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

No hiding place for Avazbek O'lmasaliyev

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Avazbek O'lmasaliyev, and the manager let it.

Squad

Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev 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 dugout

Mirjamol Qosimov gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Mirjamol Qosimov is on it.

Market

The Uroš Kojić talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. AGMK know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

The dugout

A door opens for Asadbek Sobirjonov

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.

In brief

19 Edition

The AGMK Courier

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Tempers go at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev 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.

Squad

Ahmadullo Muqumjonov 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 dugout

Avazbek O'lmasaliyev 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 dugout

Umidjon Ergashev 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.

The dugout

When it matters, Abror Karimov plays

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.

Market

The shop window has Akbar O'ktamov in it

AGMK have let the market know Akbar O'ktamov can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief

18 Edition

The AGMK Courier

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Words exchanged at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev 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.

Boardroom

153% of the income goes out in wages at AGMK

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.

Squad

A row about effort at AGMK

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ahmadullo Muqumjonov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Akbar O'ktamov 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.

The dugout

Akbar O'ktamov has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at AGMK 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 dugout

A door opens for Hamidullo Abdunabiyev

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.

In brief

17 Edition

The AGMK Courier

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Only the photograph left for Akbar O'ktamov

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Akbar O'ktamov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AGMK the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

A falling-out at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Sherzodjon Komilov out for 19 days

The medical room confirms 19 days on the sidelines for Sherzodjon Komilov, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev 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 dugout

When it matters, Naoaki Senaga plays

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.

Market

The Aziz Xolmurodov story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Aziz Xolmurodov signs something — a contract at AGMK or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

16 Edition

The AGMK Courier

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A row about effort at AGMK

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ahmadullo Muqumjonov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Mirjamol Qosimov gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Mirjamol Qosimov is on it.

Market

The Uroš Kojić talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. AGMK know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Squad

Avazbek O'lmasaliyev goes off with his country

A call-up flatters the player and the club that produced him in the same breath. AGMK would like him back in one piece and know they will not be consulted.

The dugout

Umidjon Ergashev has been promised minutes

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 Umidjon Ergashev has written the date down.

In brief

15 Edition

The AGMK Courier

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Tempers go at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev 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.

Market

One of our own: Mirzo Fayzullaev joins the AGMK first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mirzo Fayzullaev is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

The dugout

Abror Karimov gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Abror Karimov is on it.

In brief

14 Edition

The AGMK Courier

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The dugout

Sherzodjon Komilov says AGMK went back on their word

“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.

Boardroom

The AGMK board want somebody sold

The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.

Boardroom

153% of the income goes out in wages at AGMK

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.

Squad

Ali Abdurahmonov is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Ali Abdurahmonov has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

The dugout

When it matters, Akbar O'ktamov plays

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 dugout

Asadbek Sobirjonov has been promised minutes

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 Asadbek Sobirjonov has written the date down.

Market

AGMK and Akbar O'ktamov are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Market

Naoaki Senaga placed on the list

AGMK have made Naoaki Senaga available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

The dugout

Abror Sarimsoqov 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 AGMK, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

13 Edition

The AGMK Courier

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Only the photograph left for Akbar O'ktamov

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Akbar O'ktamov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AGMK the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

A falling-out at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Avazbek O'lmasaliyev

“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.

Squad

A row about effort at AGMK

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

When it matters, Naoaki Senaga plays

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.

Market

The Aziz Xolmurodov story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Aziz Xolmurodov signs something — a contract at AGMK or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

12 Edition

The AGMK Courier

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The dugout

Avazbek O'lmasaliyev: 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.” AGMK have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

A promise honoured at AGMK

Something was said to Arihiro Sentoku and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

Squad

A row about effort at AGMK

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ahmadullo Muqumjonov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

When it matters, Mirjamol Qosimov plays

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.

Market

The Uroš Kojić talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. AGMK know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

11 Edition

The AGMK Courier

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Tempers go at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev 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.

Market

One of our own: Odil Ganiev joins the AGMK first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Odil Ganiev is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Squad

8 new faces, and AGMK are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout

Abror Karimov gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Abror Karimov is on it.

The dugout

The manager makes Asadbek Sobirjonov a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at AGMK. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

Squad

Country calls for Avazbek O'lmasaliyev

He goes off to be somebody else’s player for a fortnight. AGMK lose him for the window and would like him returned in the condition he left.

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10 Edition

The AGMK Courier

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Words exchanged at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev 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.

Boardroom

Wages eat 217% of everything AGMK 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.

Squad

Words at AGMK training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev 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 dugout

The manager makes an example of Umidjon Ergashev

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout

Akbar O'ktamov has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at AGMK 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 dugout

Akbar O'ktamov 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.

In brief

9 Edition

The AGMK Courier

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings

Both of them Uroš Kojić's — 9.26

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.26, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

7 saves: Javohir Ilyosov was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Market

Akbar O'ktamov is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AGMK is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Player ratings

Nodirbek Abdurazzoqov beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

A falling-out at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

AGMK find a way past Sogdiana

Sogdiana made AGMK work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Uroš Kojić is carrying AGMK

11 goals and a season average of 7.30. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

The terraces

AGMK supporters have found a favourite in Behruzbek Asqarov

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Behruzbek Asqarov 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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Naoaki Senaga

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.56, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

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8 Edition

The AGMK Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Naoaki Senaga beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

AGMK come up short against Nasaf

Nasaf left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Match

The run is over for AGMK

4 matches without defeat, and then Nasaf. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.

The dugout

Doniyor Mirzaev faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Doniyor Mirzaev after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Market

Asadbek Sobirjonov placed on the list

AGMK have made Asadbek Sobirjonov available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

Squad

The division's best last weekend was a AGMK man

It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Uroš Kojić was the best thing in any of them.

The dugout

Mirjamol Qosimov has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at AGMK 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.

Market

The Uroš Kojić talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. AGMK know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

7 Edition

The AGMK Courier

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

AGMK run riot against Metallurg

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings

A brace, and Uroš Kojić takes the afternoon — 9.68

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Uroš Kojić provided it, and the 9.68 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Match

AGMK make it 4 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now AGMK have 4 straight wins of it.

Player ratings

Naoaki Senaga was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Aziz Xolmurodov at his very best

Marked 8.81. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at AGMK.

Match

Metallurg blown away early

There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. Metallurg tried to reorganise, AGMK did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.

Squad

Words at AGMK training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev 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.

Squad

Defences have started doubling up on Uroš Kojić

9 goals and a season average of 7.22 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.

Squad

AGMK are still strangers to each other

7 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

In brief

6 Edition

The AGMK Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Shahzod Toirov 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 AGMK can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom

AGMK close the window on a squad of their own making

13 in and 5 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.

Transfer targets

Nicholas Kaloukian will not be coming to AGMK

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Urartu is saying, and nobody at AGMK is enjoying the guessing.

Match

AGMK make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now AGMK have 3 straight wins of it.

Transfer targets

AGMK baulk at the price for Zabihillo O'rinboyev

Navbahor wanted more than $450.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Squad

Words exchanged at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Player ratings

Asadbek Sobirjonov beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Transfer targets

APOEL tell AGMK: Pedro Ataíde is not for sale

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 terraces

The crowd has taken to Uroš Kojić

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

In brief

5 Edition

The AGMK Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

No mercy from AGMK

Shortan will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. AGMK were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Player ratings

Uroš Kojić scores twice — 9.25

Two goals and a mark of 9.25 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Navbahor come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and AGMK did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Eldorbek Begimov asks to leave AGMK

“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.

Market

Akbar O'ktamov has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AGMK they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Transfer targets

Angelos Neofytou turns down AGMK

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Omonoia keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Boardroom

Akbar O'ktamov signs for Sogdiana while still at AGMK

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Akbar O'ktamov has agreed terms with Sogdiana for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad

A falling-out at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

AGMK rebuffed over Marcos Camarda

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Santiago Wanderers have kept their man, and AGMK go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

In brief

4 Edition

The AGMK Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

AGMK out of the cup

Nasaf ended it 0‑0. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Squad

A day Uroš Kojić will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Squad

Javohir Ilyosov wins the shoot-out

1 kept out from twelve yards, and a stadium that will describe each of them for twenty years. A goalkeeper needs one night like this in a career, and this was it.

Market

Abror Sarimsoqov 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 AGMK can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings

Nodirbek Abdurazzoqov was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 27. 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.

Transfer targets

Moustapha Djimet will not be coming to AGMK

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Dinamo Minsk is saying, and nobody at AGMK is enjoying the guessing.

Transfer targets

AGMK baulk at the price for Muhammadali G'iyosov

Navbahor wanted more than $910.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Squad

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about AGMK and Obod in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

In brief

3 Edition

The AGMK Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Nowhere to hide for AGMK

2‑6 against Navbahor, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Match

AGMK march on in the cup

Qizilqum are out and AGMK go through, 3‑2 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Market

Ali Abdurahmonov says no to Gomel

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Ali Abdurahmonov had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Match

Akbar O'ktamov wins it after the whistle should have gone

113 minutes played. Akbar O'ktamov found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Qizilqum went from a point to nothing inside one movement.

Player ratings

Both of them Akbar O'ktamov's — 8.93

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.93, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for AGMK — 7.79

1 for Behruzbek Asqarov, marked 7.79, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Transfer targets

AGMK bid $910.0K for Muhammadali G'iyosov

The offer went to Navbahor this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets

Too dear: AGMK walk away from Roman Paparyga

$750.0K was the most the club would pay and Qizilqum were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Squad

Tempers go at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev 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.

In brief

2 Edition

The AGMK Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

AGMK run riot against Bukhara

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings

Vintage Giorgi Papava — 7.88

At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.88, and nobody on the pitch better.

Transfer targets

Arayik Eloyan will not be coming to AGMK

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Ararat-Armenia is saying, and nobody at AGMK is enjoying the guessing.

Squad

A falling-out at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Player ratings

Nodirbek Abdurazzoqov was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Transfer targets

Paide tell AGMK: Momodou Jobarteh is not for sale

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 terraces

The crowd has taken to Uroš Kojić

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Market

One of our own: Otabek Abdullaev joins the AGMK first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Otabek Abdullaev is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Dostonbek Abdullaev steps up from the AGMK academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Dostonbek 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.

In brief

1 Edition

The AGMK Courier

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Atyrau come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and AGMK did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Siavash Haghnazari signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Siavash Haghnazari commits to AGMK for another 3 years.

Squad

Words exchanged at AGMK

Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev 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 targets

No deal for Jasur Yaxshiboyev at that price

AGMK offered $360.0K; Lokomotiv 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 targets

Door shut on Pedro Ataíde

AGMK asked and APOEL said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The terraces

One of their own: Ali Abdurahmonov

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.

Squad

A muscle injury sidelines Ahmadullo Muqumjonov for 15 days

Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. AGMK will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Match

AGMK find a way past Andijon

Andijon made AGMK work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Words at AGMK training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev 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.

In brief