From our football correspondent
Triumph
Market10 Sep 2029
“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 The request is on a desk at AGMK, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match8 Sep 2029
AGMK cannot stop winning
4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad10 Sep 2029
Tempers go at AGMK
Aziz Xolmurodov 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.
Match8 Sep 2029
A 1‑0 win over Metallurg, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings10 Sep 2029
One of those days for Uroš Kojić
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.
Player ratings10 Sep 2029
A defender's afternoon for Abbey Benson
Defensive actions: 19. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings10 Sep 2029
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad10 Sep 2029
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad10 Sep 2029
“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.
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Upbeat
Match1 Sep 2029
No mercy from AGMK
Mashal 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.
Market3 Sep 2029
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market3 Sep 2029
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.
Match1 Sep 2029
Nobody wants to play AGMK right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad3 Sep 2029
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.
Boardroom3 Sep 2029
AGMK counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at AGMK now.
Player ratings3 Sep 2029
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.34, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad3 Sep 2029
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Lazarazu Otieno and AGMK agree another 4 years.
Squad3 Sep 2029
A season average of 7.39 with 8 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad27 Aug 2029
Tempers go at AGMK
Aziz Xolmurodov 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 ratings27 Aug 2029
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match25 Aug 2029
It finished 2‑1, and it was Aziz Xolmurodov’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to AGMK.
Player ratings27 Aug 2029
Marked 9.02 — 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 ratings27 Aug 2029
One of those days for Uroš Kojić
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.47, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad27 Aug 2029
76 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad27 Aug 2029
7 goals and a season average of 7.32. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Boardroom27 Aug 2029
102% 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.
Squad27 Aug 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ilhomjon Kenjayev, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market20 Aug 2029
“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.
Squad20 Aug 2029
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.
Match18 Aug 2029
AGMK get the job done against Obod
A 3‑2 win over Obod, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings20 Aug 2029
Marked 8.99 — 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 ratings20 Aug 2029
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings20 Aug 2029
One of those days for Uroš Kojić
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.48, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad20 Aug 2029
A season average of 7.27 with 6 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.
Squad20 Aug 2029
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Squad20 Aug 2029
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings13 Aug 2029
Successful dribbles: 34. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market13 Aug 2029
“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.
Squad13 Aug 2029
Tempers go at AGMK
Aziz Xolmurodov 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.
Match11 Aug 2029
Navbahor left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad13 Aug 2029
“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.
Market13 Aug 2029
“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 Aziz Xolmurodov.
Squad13 Aug 2029
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Nodirbek Abdurazzoqov will call it something else in private.
Player ratings13 Aug 2029
The one thing Uroš Kojić could not do
Shots: 10, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Market13 Aug 2029
The name of Siavash Haghnazari keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AGMK say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market6 Aug 2029
“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.
Squad6 Aug 2029
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.
Boardroom6 Aug 2029
AGMK counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at AGMK now.
Squad6 Aug 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Abdurahmon Komilov commits to AGMK for another 3 years.
Match4 Aug 2029
AGMK get the job done against Bukhara
A 2‑1 win over Bukhara, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings6 Aug 2029
A performance of 8.87 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings6 Aug 2029
A performance of 8.64 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Every paper's favourite story and every manager's least. What happened is being dealt with internally, which is the phrase clubs use when they would rather nobody asked again.
Player ratings6 Aug 2029
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings30 Jul 2029
Successful dribbles: 47. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad30 Jul 2029
“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.
Squad30 Jul 2029
Tempers go at AGMK
Aziz Xolmurodov 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.
Squad30 Jul 2029
108 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad30 Jul 2029
“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 ratings30 Jul 2029
Marked 8.08 — 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.
Boardroom30 Jul 2029
106% 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.
Match28 Jul 2029
AGMK share the spoils with Andijon
A 1‑1 draw with Andijon leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Market30 Jul 2029
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Asadbek Sobirjonov’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market23 Jul 2029
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.
Squad23 Jul 2029
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” AGMK may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings23 Jul 2029
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad23 Jul 2029
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.
Player ratings23 Jul 2029
Marked 8.30 — 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.
Market23 Jul 2029
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Xondamir Mustafoqulov has his answer from AGMK; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Squad23 Jul 2029
“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.
Match21 Jul 2029
AGMK and Qizilqum take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad23 Jul 2029
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market16 Jul 2029
“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.
Squad16 Jul 2029
Tempers go at AGMK
Aziz Xolmurodov 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.
Match14 Jul 2029
Kokand 1912 made AGMK work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings16 Jul 2029
Marked 8.06 — 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 ratings16 Jul 2029
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad16 Jul 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Javohir Ilyosov, and the manager let it.
Player ratings16 Jul 2029
Defensive actions: 17. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Market16 Jul 2029
1 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what AGMK could get for him.
Squad16 Jul 2029
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market9 Jul 2029
“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.
Squad9 Jul 2029
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.
Boardroom9 Jul 2029
AGMK counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at AGMK now.
Squad9 Jul 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Giorgi Papava commits to AGMK for another 2 years.
Squad9 Jul 2029
“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.
Match7 Jul 2029
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings9 Jul 2029
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market9 Jul 2029
The Odil Ahmedov conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: Bukhara will make the call about Odil Ahmedov this week. AGMK have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Market9 Jul 2029
The name of Avazbek O'lmasaliyev keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AGMK say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market2 Jul 2029
“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.
Squad2 Jul 2029
Boburjon Asqarov: 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.
Squad2 Jul 2029
14 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad2 Jul 2029
Tempers go at AGMK
Aziz Xolmurodov 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.
Squad2 Jul 2029
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Giorgi Papava commits to AGMK for another 2 years.
Player ratings2 Jul 2029
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 21 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings2 Jul 2029
A defender's afternoon for Giorgi Papava
Defensive actions: 19. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Boardroom2 Jul 2029
Wages eat 103% 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.
Player ratings2 Jul 2029
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings25 Jun 2029
Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad25 Jun 2029
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.
Match23 Jun 2029
Bunyodkor left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad25 Jun 2029
The manager makes an example of Mamadou Traoré
“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.
Squad25 Jun 2029
Abbey Benson has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. AGMK know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Player ratings25 Jun 2029
The one thing Uroš Kojić could not do
Shots: 11, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Squad25 Jun 2029
“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.
Market25 Jun 2029
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.
Player ratings25 Jun 2029
5.78 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market18 Jun 2029
“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.
Squad18 Jun 2029
Uroš Kojić takes the match ball home
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Player ratings18 Jun 2029
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad18 Jun 2029
Jasur Akhmedov: 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.
Squad18 Jun 2029
Tempers go at AGMK
Aziz Xolmurodov 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.
Match16 Jun 2029
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Uroš Kojić. 4‑2 against Neftchi, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings18 Jun 2029
A performance of 9.60 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings18 Jun 2029
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.15, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings18 Jun 2029
A performance of 8.05 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings11 Jun 2029
Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market11 Jun 2029
“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.
Squad11 Jun 2029
15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad11 Jun 2029
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.
Boardroom11 Jun 2029
AGMK counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at AGMK now.
Market11 Jun 2029
Lokomotiv paid $220.0K and AGMK took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Match9 Jun 2029
Sogdiana left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad11 Jun 2029
The manager makes an example of Uroš Kojić
“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.
Market11 Jun 2029
The name of Avazbek O'lmasaliyev keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AGMK say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market4 Jun 2029
“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 ratings4 Jun 2029
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad4 Jun 2029
Tempers go at AGMK
Aziz Xolmurodov 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.
Market4 Jun 2029
The name of Alisher Xayrullayev has come up in conversations AGMK were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Player ratings4 Jun 2029
A performance of 8.42 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad4 Jun 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nodirbek Abdurazzoqov, and the manager let it.
Boardroom4 Jun 2029
Wages eat 91% 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.
Match2 Jun 2029
It needed Uroš Kojić to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Nasaf, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad4 Jun 2029
AGMK will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad28 May 2029
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad28 May 2029
Tempers go at AGMK
Aziz Xolmurodov 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.
Squad28 May 2029
“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 ratings28 May 2029
A performance of 8.74 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings28 May 2029
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match26 May 2029
It needed Aziz Xolmurodov to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Metallurg, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
In brief
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Player ratings
Uroš Kojić leaves them behind him
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Market
Uroš Kojić linked with a move away
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Squad
Arihiro Sentoku unhappy with how he is being used
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Boardroom
The AGMK production line keeps running
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings21 May 2029
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.
Market21 May 2029
“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.
Squad21 May 2029
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.
Player ratings21 May 2029
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 20 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings21 May 2029
Marked 8.59 — 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.
Match19 May 2029
Mashal made AGMK work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad21 May 2029
“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 ratings21 May 2029
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 17 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Market21 May 2029
2 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what AGMK could get for him.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match12 May 2029
The wait goes on for AGMK
8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad14 May 2029
Tempers go at AGMK
Aziz Xolmurodov 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.
Boardroom14 May 2029
The numbers do not look good at AGMK
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
Player ratings14 May 2029
Defensive actions: 21. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings14 May 2029
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 May 2029
The manager makes an example of Mamadou Traoré
“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.
Squad14 May 2029
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Player ratings14 May 2029
Shots: 10, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
Match12 May 2029
AGMK and Shortan cancel each other out
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Shortan came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market7 May 2029
“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.
Match5 May 2029
No end in sight to AGMK's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at AGMK has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad7 May 2029
“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.
Squad7 May 2029
“The easiest signature of my career.” Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev and AGMK agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad7 May 2029
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.
Match5 May 2029
AGMK come up short against Obod
Obod left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings7 May 2029
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.83, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad7 May 2029
“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 ratings7 May 2029
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
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Boardroom
Inquest at AGMK
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Boardroom
95% of the income goes out in wages at AGMK
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Player ratings
Uroš Kojić keeps on missing
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings30 Apr 2029
Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match28 Apr 2029
The wait goes on for AGMK
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad30 Apr 2029
Tempers go at AGMK
Aziz Xolmurodov was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings30 Apr 2029
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 22 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings30 Apr 2029
Defensive actions: 20, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad30 Apr 2029
“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.
Match28 Apr 2029
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Navbahor defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Squad30 Apr 2029
“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.
Market30 Apr 2029
The name of Asadbek Sobirjonov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AGMK say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings23 Apr 2029
Successful dribbles: 37. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market23 Apr 2029
“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.
Match21 Apr 2029
No end in sight to AGMK's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at AGMK has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad23 Apr 2029
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.
Squad23 Apr 2029
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings23 Apr 2029
A performance of 8.36 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match21 Apr 2029
AGMK and Bukhara take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Market23 Apr 2029
3 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what AGMK could get for him.
Squad23 Apr 2029
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Javohir Ilyosov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings16 Apr 2029
Successful dribbles: 38. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match14 Apr 2029
No end in sight to AGMK's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at AGMK has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad16 Apr 2029
Tempers go at AGMK
Aziz Xolmurodov 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.
Boardroom16 Apr 2029
The numbers do not look good at AGMK
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
Squad16 Apr 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Uroš Kojić, and the manager let it.
Match14 Apr 2029
AGMK come up short against Andijon
Andijon left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad16 Apr 2029
“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 terraces16 Apr 2029
The spotlight tightens on Uroš Kojić
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Market16 Apr 2029
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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings9 Apr 2029
Successful dribbles: 40. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad9 Apr 2029
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Umidjon Ergashev: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match7 Apr 2029
AGMK bow out of the cup
Qizilqum go through and AGMK go home, 0‑0 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Squad9 Apr 2029
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.
Player ratings9 Apr 2029
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 21 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad9 Apr 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Arihiro Sentoku, and the manager let it.
Market9 Apr 2029
“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.
Player ratings9 Apr 2029
Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.
Boardroom9 Apr 2029
87% 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Player ratings2 Apr 2029
Successful dribbles: 36. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad2 Apr 2029
Tempers go at AGMK
Aziz Xolmurodov 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.
Squad2 Apr 2029
“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 ratings2 Apr 2029
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.40, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match31 Mar 2029
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad2 Apr 2029
The captaincy has been taken off Asadbek Sobirjonov. AGMK will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
Player ratings2 Apr 2029
Uroš Kojić leaves them behind him
Shots: 10. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Player ratings2 Apr 2029
4.89 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
Squad2 Apr 2029
“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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market26 Mar 2029
“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.
Squad26 Mar 2029
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.
Player ratings26 Mar 2029
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match24 Mar 2029
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Uroš Kojić. 1‑0 against Lokomotiv, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings26 Mar 2029
A performance of 8.44 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings26 Mar 2029
A performance of 8.10 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings26 Mar 2029
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.07, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad26 Mar 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Boburjon Asqarov, and the manager let it.
Squad26 Mar 2029
31 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad19 Mar 2029
“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.
The terraces19 Mar 2029
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 6 of the 27 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Squad19 Mar 2029
Tempers go at AGMK
Aziz Xolmurodov 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.
Boardroom19 Mar 2029
The numbers do not look good at AGMK
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
Match17 Mar 2029
Pakhtakor left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings19 Mar 2029
A performance of 8.93 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad19 Mar 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Uroš Kojić, and the manager let it.
Player ratings19 Mar 2029
A performance of 8.08 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings19 Mar 2029
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Player ratings12 Mar 2029
Successful dribbles: 45. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad12 Mar 2029
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” AGMK may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad12 Mar 2029
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.
Player ratings12 Mar 2029
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 21 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings12 Mar 2029
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 20 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings12 Mar 2029
A performance of 8.72 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match10 Mar 2029
It finished 1‑0, and it was Mamadou Traoré’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to AGMK.
Market12 Mar 2029
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad12 Mar 2029
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and AGMK will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad5 Mar 2029
He will be fined, he will apologise, and he will play on Saturday. The order of those three tells you everything about what a football club actually values.
Player ratings5 Mar 2029
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad5 Mar 2029
Tempers go at AGMK
Aziz Xolmurodov 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.
Market5 Mar 2029
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market5 Mar 2029
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market5 Mar 2029
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market5 Mar 2029
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad5 Mar 2029
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Nodirbek Abdurazzoqov and AGMK agree another 4 years.
Squad5 Mar 2029
Raised voices on the training ground at AGMK
It involved Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev, it was loud enough to reach the car park, and it was over by lunch. Dressing rooms run hot; the ones that should worry you are the silent ones.
In brief
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Boardroom
A promise the AGMK board did not keep
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Match
AGMK share the spoils with Neftchi
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Boardroom
$104.8K a year onto the AGMK books
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad26 Feb 2029
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.
Squad26 Feb 2029
“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.
Market26 Feb 2029
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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad19 Feb 2029
Tempers go at AGMK
Aziz Xolmurodov 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.
Boardroom19 Feb 2029
The numbers do not look good at AGMK
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
Squad19 Feb 2029
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Hamidullo Abdunabiyev trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad12 Feb 2029
38 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad12 Feb 2029
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.
Squad12 Feb 2029
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad5 Feb 2029
“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.
Squad5 Feb 2029
Tempers go at AGMK
Aziz Xolmurodov 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.
Market5 Feb 2029
AGMK have made Arihiro Sentoku available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Market5 Feb 2029
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Avazbek O'lmasaliyev signs something — a contract at AGMK or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Market5 Feb 2029
6 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs AGMK money.
Squad5 Feb 2029
A new face in his position, and Siavash Haghnazari suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. AGMK have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad29 Jan 2029
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.
Market29 Jan 2029
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.
Squad29 Jan 2029
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at AGMK would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market22 Jan 2029
“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.
Squad22 Jan 2029
Tempers go at AGMK
Aziz Xolmurodov was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad22 Jan 2029
The medical room confirms 37 days on the sidelines for Boburjon Asqarov, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad22 Jan 2029
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. AGMK will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Boardroom22 Jan 2029
The numbers do not look good at AGMK
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
Market22 Jan 2029
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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad15 Jan 2029
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.
Squad15 Jan 2029
“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.
Market15 Jan 2029
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Asadbek Sobirjonov signs something — a contract at AGMK or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Squad15 Jan 2029
A new face in his position, and Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. AGMK have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
Market15 Jan 2029
The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Ilhomjon Kenjayev arrives at AGMK with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.
Squad15 Jan 2029
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Umidjon Ergashev trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad8 Jan 2029
Tempers go at AGMK
Aziz Xolmurodov was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad8 Jan 2029
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market8 Jan 2029
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Avazbek O'lmasaliyev signs something — a contract at AGMK or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Market8 Jan 2029
7 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what AGMK could get for him.
Market8 Jan 2029
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market8 Jan 2029
AGMK have let the market know Alisher Xayrullayev can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Jan 2029
“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.
Squad1 Jan 2029
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.
Squad1 Jan 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Javohir Ilyosov, and the manager let it.
Market1 Jan 2029
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad1 Jan 2029
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and AGMK will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
Market1 Jan 2029
Experience through the door at AGMK
Asiljon Begimqulov arrives at 37 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad25 Dec 2028
Tempers go at AGMK
Aziz Xolmurodov was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad25 Dec 2028
The medical room confirms 67 days on the sidelines for Nodirxon Xabibullayev, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad25 Dec 2028
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
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Boardroom
The numbers do not look good at AGMK
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Squad
This league is too small for Mohammad Amini
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Market
The Uroš Kojić question follows AGMK around
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Market
AGMK shop where it costs nothing
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad18 Dec 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Dec 2028
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Boardroom18 Dec 2028
Wages eat 90% 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad11 Dec 2028
Tempers go at AGMK
Aziz Xolmurodov was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad11 Dec 2028
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. AGMK know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Squad11 Dec 2028
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market11 Dec 2028
“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 Boburjon Asqarov.
Market11 Dec 2028
AGMK bring in an old head
Asiljon Begimqulov is 37 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
Market11 Dec 2028
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Avazbek O'lmasaliyev signs something — a contract at AGMK or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
In brief
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Squad
A wage question at AGMK
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Market
AGMK shop where it costs nothing
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Boardroom
AGMK keep producing them
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad4 Dec 2028
15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad4 Dec 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Javohir Ilyosov and AGMK agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad4 Dec 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad27 Nov 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” AGMK may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad27 Nov 2028
Tempers go at AGMK
Aziz Xolmurodov 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.
Boardroom27 Nov 2028
The numbers do not look good at AGMK
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad20 Nov 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings20 Nov 2028
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.36, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Boardroom20 Nov 2028
Wages eat 92% 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.
Squad20 Nov 2028
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market20 Nov 2028
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Asadbek Sobirjonov signs something — a contract at AGMK or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Player ratings20 Nov 2028
Successful dribbles: 10. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad13 Nov 2028
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.
Squad13 Nov 2028
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad13 Nov 2028
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad6 Nov 2028
Waleed Bakshween: 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.
Squad6 Nov 2028
The medical room confirms 43 days on the sidelines for Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad6 Nov 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad30 Oct 2028
Naoaki Senaga: 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.
Squad30 Oct 2028
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.
Squad30 Oct 2028
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad23 Oct 2028
“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.
Squad23 Oct 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market23 Oct 2028
The shirt still fits. Ahmed Al-Shehri 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad16 Oct 2028
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 ratings16 Oct 2028
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.49, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad16 Oct 2028
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market16 Oct 2028
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Avazbek O'lmasaliyev signs something — a contract at AGMK or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Player ratings16 Oct 2028
He was not in the side at half past three and he had settled it before five. Half an hour, and AGMK had a different afternoon.
Squad16 Oct 2028
A wage question at AGMK
Ali Abdurahmonov has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
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Steady
Squad9 Oct 2028
75 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad9 Oct 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Siavash Haghnazari commits to AGMK for another 4 years.
Squad9 Oct 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Steady
Squad2 Oct 2028
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Siavash Haghnazari commits to AGMK for another 4 years.
Squad2 Oct 2028
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.
Squad2 Oct 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bekjon Rahmatov, and the manager let it.
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Steady
Player ratings25 Sep 2028
Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad25 Sep 2028
There were 7 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.
Squad25 Sep 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market25 Sep 2028
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Player ratings25 Sep 2028
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.55, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings25 Sep 2028
A performance of 8.28 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad25 Sep 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Waleed Bakshween, and the manager let it.
Boardroom25 Sep 2028
Wages eat 96% 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.
Match23 Sep 2028
It needed Avazbek O'lmasaliyev to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Sogdiana, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Steady
Squad18 Sep 2028
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.
Squad18 Sep 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mahmudjon Mahamadjonov, and the manager let it.
Match16 Sep 2028
AGMK come up short against Nasaf
Nasaf left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings18 Sep 2028
Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings18 Sep 2028
The one thing Uroš Kojić could not do
Shots: 7, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Squad18 Sep 2028
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Upbeat
Match11 Sep 2028
AGMK up to position 3
46 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad11 Sep 2028
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.
Match9 Sep 2028
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Uroš Kojić. 2‑1 against Metallurg, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings11 Sep 2028
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.68, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings11 Sep 2028
A performance of 8.36 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings11 Sep 2028
A performance of 8.23 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad11 Sep 2028
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Defences have started doubling up on Aziz Xolmurodov
4 goals and a season average of 7.27 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad11 Sep 2028
Waleed Bakshween asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Upbeat
Player ratings4 Sep 2028
Successful dribbles: 33. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad4 Sep 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match2 Sep 2028
Mashal made AGMK work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings4 Sep 2028
One of those days for Uroš Kojić
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.85, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad4 Sep 2028
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad4 Sep 2028
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Javohir Ilyosov will call it something else in private.
Boardroom4 Sep 2028
AGMK counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at AGMK now.
Squad4 Sep 2028
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at AGMK, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market4 Sep 2028
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.
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Steady
Player ratings28 Aug 2028
Successful dribbles: 39. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad28 Aug 2028
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.
Squad28 Aug 2028
The manager makes an example of Uroš Kojić
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Loan watch28 Aug 2028
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at AGMK, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Boardroom28 Aug 2028
Wages eat 91% 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.
Match26 Aug 2028
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Shortan defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Steady
Player ratings21 Aug 2028
Defensive actions: 23. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings21 Aug 2028
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad21 Aug 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Aug 2028
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match19 Aug 2028
AGMK find a way past Obod
Obod made AGMK work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings21 Aug 2028
A performance of 8.31 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings21 Aug 2028
Defensive actions: 18. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Market21 Aug 2028
The name of Avazbek O'lmasaliyev keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AGMK say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad21 Aug 2028
“Nobody outside is coming to save us.” It was short, it was not comfortable, and by all accounts the AGMK squad were quieter afterwards than they had been all season.
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Crisis
Squad14 Aug 2028
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 ratings14 Aug 2028
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match12 Aug 2028
Navbahor left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Loan watch14 Aug 2028
“I did not go to Navbahor to sit and watch. I want to come back to AGMK and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Squad14 Aug 2028
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Defences have started doubling up on Aziz Xolmurodov
4 goals and a season average of 7.23 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad14 Aug 2028
Javohir Ilyosov asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Player ratings14 Aug 2028
The one thing Uroš Kojić could not do
Shots: 11, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Market14 Aug 2028
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Siavash Haghnazari’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings7 Aug 2028
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Aug 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” AGMK may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings7 Aug 2028
Defensive actions: 25. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad7 Aug 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Aug 2028
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Waleed Bakshween and AGMK agree another 2 years.
Player ratings7 Aug 2028
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 21 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings7 Aug 2028
A performance of 8.80 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match5 Aug 2028
Bukhara made AGMK work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad7 Aug 2028
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Uneasy
Match29 Jul 2028
7 matches without a win for AGMK
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around AGMK are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings31 Jul 2028
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad31 Jul 2028
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 ratings31 Jul 2028
Marked 8.78 — 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.
Squad31 Jul 2028
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Boardroom31 Jul 2028
Wages eat 101% 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.
Match29 Jul 2028
Honours even between AGMK and Andijon
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad31 Jul 2028
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad31 Jul 2028
Uroš Kojić has to sit this one out
A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. AGMK lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.
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Uneasy
Match22 Jul 2028
No end in sight to AGMK's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at AGMK has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings24 Jul 2028
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 Jul 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Jul 2028
40 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Player ratings24 Jul 2028
A performance of 8.36 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad24 Jul 2028
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match22 Jul 2028
It needed Uroš Kojić to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Qizilqum, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad24 Jul 2028
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market24 Jul 2028
The name of Avazbek O'lmasaliyev keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AGMK say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Market17 Jul 2028
AGMK say no — this time
The offer from Navbahor for Akobir Mo'minov 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.
Match15 Jul 2028
No end in sight to AGMK's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at AGMK has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings17 Jul 2028
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Jul 2028
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 ratings17 Jul 2028
A performance of 8.47 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings17 Jul 2028
A performance of 8.28 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad17 Jul 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Waleed Bakshween, and the manager let it.
Match15 Jul 2028
It needed Dilshod Abdullayev to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Kokand 1912, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad17 Jul 2028
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
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Crisis
Player ratings10 Jul 2028
Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match10 Jul 2028
AGMK refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 30 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Match8 Jul 2028
No end in sight to AGMK's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at AGMK has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad10 Jul 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match8 Jul 2028
Lokomotiv left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad10 Jul 2028
The manager makes an example of Mamadou Traoré
“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.
Boardroom10 Jul 2028
AGMK counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at AGMK now.
Squad10 Jul 2028
4 goals and a season average of 7.23. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Market10 Jul 2028
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.
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Steady
Squad3 Jul 2028
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.
Market3 Jul 2028
The phone has started ringing about Akobir Mo'minov again, and this time the name on the line is Navbahor. AGMK are listening politely and promising nothing.
Player ratings3 Jul 2028
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings3 Jul 2028
Marked 8.74 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad3 Jul 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Giorgi Papava, and the manager let it.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Uroš Kojić named player of the month
The award goes to Uroš Kojić, and nobody around here is inclined to argue with the choice.
Boardroom3 Jul 2028
96% 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.
Squad3 Jul 2028
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Match1 Jul 2028
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Steady
Player ratings26 Jun 2028
Defensive actions: 26. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad26 Jun 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” AGMK may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad26 Jun 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings26 Jun 2028
Defensive actions: 22, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad26 Jun 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Javohir Ilyosov, and the manager let it.
Player ratings26 Jun 2028
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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Upbeat
Squad19 Jun 2028
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.
Match17 Jun 2028
Uroš Kojić scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to Neftchi, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad19 Jun 2028
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings19 Jun 2028
A performance of 8.53 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad19 Jun 2028
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Player ratings19 Jun 2028
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings19 Jun 2028
Shots: 4, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
Market19 Jun 2028
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Siavash Haghnazari’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The terraces19 Jun 2028
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
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Triumph
Player ratings12 Jun 2028
Defensive actions: 37, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Match12 Jun 2028
AGMK refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 28 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Player ratings12 Jun 2028
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match10 Jun 2028
Still nobody has beaten AGMK
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad12 Jun 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match10 Jun 2028
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Uroš Kojić. 1‑0 against Sogdiana, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings12 Jun 2028
One of those days for Uroš Kojić
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.29, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings12 Jun 2028
Marked 8.03 — 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.
Squad12 Jun 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bekjon Rahmatov, and the manager let it.
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Upbeat
Squad5 Jun 2028
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.
Match3 Jun 2028
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.
Match3 Jun 2028
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Uroš Kojić. 2‑1 against Nasaf, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings5 Jun 2028
Marked 8.97 — 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 ratings5 Jun 2028
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings5 Jun 2028
A performance of 8.13 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad5 Jun 2028
The manager makes an example of Mamadou Traoré
“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.
Boardroom5 Jun 2028
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.
Squad5 Jun 2028
4 goals and a season average of 7.23. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
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Steady
Squad29 May 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” AGMK may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad29 May 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad29 May 2028
24 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad29 May 2028
The manager makes an example of Javohir Ilyosov
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings29 May 2028
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings29 May 2028
Defensive actions: 16. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings29 May 2028
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.52 on the card, and the AGMK support went home talking about one name.
Player ratings29 May 2028
Uroš Kojić leaves them behind him
Shots: 11. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
The terraces29 May 2028
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
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Upbeat
Player ratings22 May 2028
Defensive actions: 33, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings22 May 2028
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match20 May 2028
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.
Squad22 May 2028
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 ratings22 May 2028
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.99, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match20 May 2028
AGMK get the job done against Mashal
A 2‑0 win over Mashal, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings22 May 2028
One of those days for Uroš Kojić
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.51, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad22 May 2028
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market22 May 2028
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.
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Steady
Match15 May 2028
AGMK up to position 3
18 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Player ratings15 May 2028
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings15 May 2028
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 23 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Squad15 May 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings15 May 2028
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 22 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings15 May 2028
Marked 9.17 — 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.
Match13 May 2028
Shortan made AGMK work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad15 May 2028
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Boardroom15 May 2028
AGMK counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at AGMK now.
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Uneasy
Squad8 May 2028
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Javohir Ilyosov and AGMK agree another 2 years.
Squad8 May 2028
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.
Match6 May 2028
Three points for AGMK, 2‑1 the final word against Obod in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings8 May 2028
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.88, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings8 May 2028
Marked 8.87 — 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.
Squad8 May 2028
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Boardroom8 May 2028
Wages eat 89% 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.
Squad8 May 2028
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at AGMK, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market8 May 2028
Uroš Kojić linked with a move away
The name of Uroš Kojić keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AGMK say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Match29 Apr 2028
The wait goes on for AGMK
8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market1 May 2028
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at AGMK, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad1 May 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” AGMK may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings1 May 2028
Defensive actions: 27. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad1 May 2028
55 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad1 May 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings1 May 2028
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings1 May 2028
A defender's afternoon for Giorgi Papava
Defensive actions: 18. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad1 May 2028
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Crisis
Match22 Apr 2028
7 matches without a win for AGMK
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around AGMK are no longer polite ones.
Squad24 Apr 2028
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 ratings24 Apr 2028
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Apr 2028
The manager makes an example of Javohir Ilyosov
“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.
Match22 Apr 2028
A bad afternoon for AGMK against Bukhara
0‑1 to Bukhara, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Player ratings24 Apr 2028
Uroš Kojić leaves them behind him
Shots: 9. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Squad24 Apr 2028
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market24 Apr 2028
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.
Player ratings24 Apr 2028
Shots: 5, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
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Uneasy
Match15 Apr 2028
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.
Match15 Apr 2028
6 matches without a win for AGMK
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around AGMK are no longer polite ones.
Squad17 Apr 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings17 Apr 2028
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings17 Apr 2028
A performance of 8.84 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad17 Apr 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ali Abdurahmonov, and the manager let it.
Player ratings17 Apr 2028
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.
Squad17 Apr 2028
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Hamidullo Abdunabiyev knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Match15 Apr 2028
AGMK and Andijon take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
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Uneasy
Squad10 Apr 2028
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Hamidullo Abdunabiyev: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match5 Apr 2028
The small margins put AGMK out
Out, 1‑1 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.
Match8 Apr 2028
Whatever happens, AGMK do not lose
11 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.
Player ratings10 Apr 2028
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad10 Apr 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” AGMK may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match8 Apr 2028
The wait goes on for AGMK
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad10 Apr 2028
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 ratings10 Apr 2028
Marked 8.49 — 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 ratings10 Apr 2028
Defensive actions: 18, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
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Steady
Squad3 Apr 2028
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match1 Apr 2028
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.
Squad3 Apr 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings3 Apr 2028
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad3 Apr 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Mahmudjon Mahamadjonov, and the manager let it.
Player ratings3 Apr 2028
Marked 8.68 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad3 Apr 2028
“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and AGMK will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.
Match1 Apr 2028
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Market3 Apr 2028
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Asadbek Sobirjonov signs something — a contract at AGMK or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Steady
Match25 Mar 2028
Still nobody has beaten AGMK
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad27 Mar 2028
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.
Squad27 Mar 2028
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings27 Mar 2028
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings27 Mar 2028
The one thing Uroš Kojić 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.
Player ratings27 Mar 2028
Defensive actions: 13, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
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Upbeat
Squad20 Mar 2028
“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.
Match18 Mar 2028
Still nobody has beaten AGMK
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad20 Mar 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad20 Mar 2028
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings20 Mar 2028
Marked 8.26 — 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 ratings20 Mar 2028
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Upbeat
Player ratings13 Mar 2028
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match11 Mar 2028
Nobody wants to play AGMK right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad13 Mar 2028
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 ratings13 Mar 2028
Defensive actions: 21, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Match11 Mar 2028
Three points for AGMK, 1‑0 the final word against Bunyodkor in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings13 Mar 2028
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 19 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings13 Mar 2028
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.22, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad13 Mar 2028
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market13 Mar 2028
Uroš Kojić linked with a move away
The name of Uroš Kojić keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AGMK say nothing, which says plenty.
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Upbeat
Player ratings6 Mar 2028
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 25 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings6 Mar 2028
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market6 Mar 2028
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad6 Mar 2028
“The easiest signature of my career.” Siavash Haghnazari and AGMK agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad6 Mar 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market6 Mar 2028
The shirt still fits. Doniyor Mirzaev 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.
Market6 Mar 2028
The shirt still fits. Sherzod Ganiev 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.
Market6 Mar 2028
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Shohruh Fayzullaev is a AGMK player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Player ratings6 Mar 2028
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 21 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
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Steady
Squad28 Feb 2028
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.
Market28 Feb 2028
Add another name to the list: Tobol have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Akobir Mo'minov. The answer from AGMK has not changed — yet.
Market28 Feb 2028
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.
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Steady
Squad21 Feb 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom21 Feb 2028
AGMK counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at AGMK now.
Market21 Feb 2028
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Avazbek O'lmasaliyev’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Squad14 Feb 2028
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.
Squad14 Feb 2028
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market14 Feb 2028
Uroš Kojić linked with a move away
The name of Uroš Kojić keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AGMK say nothing, which says plenty.
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Steady
Squad7 Feb 2028
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” AGMK may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market7 Feb 2028
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad7 Feb 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Steady
Market31 Jan 2028
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad31 Jan 2028
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.
Market31 Jan 2028
Add another name to the list: Dewa United have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Akobir Mo'minov. The answer from AGMK has not changed — yet.
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Steady
Market24 Jan 2028
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad24 Jan 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Jan 2028
22 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Boardroom24 Jan 2028
AGMK counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at AGMK now.
Market24 Jan 2028
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Avazbek O'lmasaliyev’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Market24 Jan 2028
AGMK have let the market know Nodirxon Xabibullayev can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
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Steady
Squad17 Jan 2028
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.
Squad17 Jan 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Nurjahon Muzaffarov, and the manager let it.
Market17 Jan 2028
Uroš Kojić linked with a move away
The name of Uroš Kojić keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AGMK say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad17 Jan 2028
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. AGMK will not keep him by pretending otherwise.
Squad17 Jan 2028
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Avazbek O'lmasaliyev keeps the shirt for now, at AGMK's convenience rather than his own.
Market17 Jan 2028
AGMK have made Hazratjon Tursunqulov available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
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Steady
Squad10 Jan 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Jan 2028
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad10 Jan 2028
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. AGMK know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Market10 Jan 2028
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Mirjamol Qosimov has his answer from AGMK; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Market10 Jan 2028
AGMK bring in an old head
Waleed Bakshween is 38 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.
Market10 Jan 2028
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Asadbek Sobirjonov signs something — a contract at AGMK or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Steady
Squad3 Jan 2028
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market3 Jan 2028
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Hazratjon Tursunqulov has his answer from AGMK; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Squad3 Jan 2028
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Javohir Ilyosov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market3 Jan 2028
The name of Javohir Ilyosov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AGMK say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad3 Jan 2028
Somebody else's move, somebody else's headline. What it left at AGMK is an empty peg and a footballer who keeps glancing at it.
Market3 Jan 2028
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Abror Karimov leaves AGMK the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
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Steady
Squad27 Dec 2027
Javohir Ilyosov: 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.
Squad27 Dec 2027
53 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad27 Dec 2027
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.
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Steady
Market20 Dec 2027
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what AGMK can pretend not to have heard.
Squad20 Dec 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” AGMK may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad20 Dec 2027
The medical room confirms 35 days on the sidelines for Javohir Ilyosov, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
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Steady
Market13 Dec 2027
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.
Squad13 Dec 2027
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.
Squad13 Dec 2027
The manager makes an example of Naoaki Senaga
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
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Steady
Market6 Dec 2027
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.
Squad6 Dec 2027
14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad6 Dec 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Steady
Squad29 Nov 2027
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.
Boardroom29 Nov 2027
Wages eat 105% 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.
Squad29 Nov 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hamidullo Abdunabiyev, and the manager let it.
Boardroom29 Nov 2027
The numbers do not look good at AGMK
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
Squad29 Nov 2027
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Hazratjon Tursunqulov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market29 Nov 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Avazbek O'lmasaliyev signs something — a contract at AGMK or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Steady
Squad22 Nov 2027
There were 12 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.
Market22 Nov 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market22 Nov 2027
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.
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Steady
Market15 Nov 2027
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.
Squad15 Nov 2027
Abror Karimov: 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.
Squad15 Nov 2027
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.
Loan watch15 Nov 2027
“I watch every AGMK game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Nasaf runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad15 Nov 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sherzod Hasanov, and the manager let it.
Market15 Nov 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Asadbek Sobirjonov’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Market8 Nov 2027
Abror Karimov 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.
Squad8 Nov 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Nov 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Steady
Squad1 Nov 2027
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.
Squad1 Nov 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Javohir Ilyosov, and the manager let it.
Boardroom1 Nov 2027
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.
Boardroom1 Nov 2027
The numbers do not look good at AGMK
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
Market1 Nov 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Avazbek O'lmasaliyev signs something — a contract at AGMK or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Market1 Nov 2027
2 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
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Steady
Squad25 Oct 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market25 Oct 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market25 Oct 2027
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Sherzodjon Komilov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AGMK the goodbyes have quietly begun.
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Steady
Squad18 Oct 2027
There were 9 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.
Squad18 Oct 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market18 Oct 2027
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.
Squad18 Oct 2027
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.
Loan watch18 Oct 2027
“I did not go to Nasaf to sit and watch. I want to come back to AGMK and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 17 matches say the rest.
Squad18 Oct 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.