From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad1 Mar 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 60 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad1 Mar 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.
Market1 Mar 2027
Dinamo Brest are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. AGMK will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Words at AGMK training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ahmadullo Muqumjonov is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Looking ahead1 Mar 2027
Neftchi next, and one man in the AGMK dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Market1 Mar 2027
AGMK have made Mirjamol Qosimov available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad22 Feb 2027
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. AGMK will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market22 Feb 2027
Rian Islomov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AGMK they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Market22 Feb 2027
The phone has started ringing about Ali Abdurahmonov again, and this time the name on the line is Dinamo Brest. AGMK are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at AGMK
Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words at AGMK training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ahmadullo Muqumjonov is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market22 Feb 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Aziz Xolmurodov’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad15 Feb 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 75 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market15 Feb 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 Feb 2027
A falling-out at AGMK
Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A row about effort at AGMK
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market15 Feb 2027
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
Upbeat
Squad8 Feb 2027
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. AGMK will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market8 Feb 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
AGMK had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Zenit, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Squad8 Feb 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Feb 2027
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad1 Feb 2027
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AGMK will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market1 Feb 2027
AGMK say no — this time
The offer from Obod for Asadbek Sobirjonov was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market1 Feb 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Sogdiana waiting with a shirt. Nobody at AGMK is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market1 Feb 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at AGMK, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
AGMK close the window on a squad of their own making
1 in and 0 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
The deal with Zenit is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Rotor is saying, and nobody at AGMK is enjoying the guessing.
Squad1 Feb 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.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad25 Jan 2027
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AGMK will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market25 Jan 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at AGMK, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at AGMK
Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad25 Jan 2027
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout25 Jan 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.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
A loan move for David Davidyan is in the works
AGMK have made the call to Rotor. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at AGMK, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad25 Jan 2027
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation AGMK are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad18 Jan 2027
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason AGMK will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market18 Jan 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Obod waiting with a shirt. Nobody at AGMK is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market18 Jan 2027
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A falling-out at AGMK
Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Muhammadjon Valiyev has, at AGMK, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. APOEL have kept their man, and AGMK go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Ahmadullo Muqumjonov falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Madryn have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
The dugout18 Jan 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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad11 Jan 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 111 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market11 Jan 2027
The phone has started ringing about Ali Abdurahmonov again, and this time the name on the line is Alashkert. AGMK are listening politely and promising nothing.
Squad11 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market11 Jan 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. AGMK will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
AGMK asked and Dila said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A row about effort at AGMK
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ahmadullo Muqumjonov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
A loan enquiry to NK Maribor: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Mirjamol Qosimov has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at AGMK will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market11 Jan 2027
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at AGMK, another week without a signature from Hamidullo Abdunabiyev.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad4 Jan 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 118 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market4 Jan 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at AGMK, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market4 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Tempers go at AGMK
Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Alashkert have kept their man, and AGMK go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sherzodjon Komilov commits to AGMK for another 3 years.
Market4 Jan 2027
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Naoaki Senaga has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at AGMK.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad28 Dec 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 126 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at AGMK
Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages swallow 134% of the AGMK income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A row about effort at AGMK
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ahmadullo Muqumjonov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Akbar O'ktamov has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at AGMK will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Umidjon Ergashev has written the date down.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad21 Dec 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 135 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market21 Dec 2026
Akbar O'ktamov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AGMK they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A row about effort at AGMK
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ahmadullo Muqumjonov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Naoaki Senaga has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at AGMK will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market21 Dec 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Aziz Xolmurodov signs something — a contract at AGMK or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad14 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Avazbek O'lmasaliyev, and the manager let it.
Squad14 Dec 2026
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Mirjamol Qosimov is on it.
Market14 Dec 2026
The Uroš Kojić talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. AGMK know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad7 Dec 2026
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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Ahmadullo Muqumjonov falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market7 Dec 2026
AGMK have let the market know Akbar O'ktamov can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at AGMK
Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
153% of the income goes out in wages at AGMK
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A row about effort at AGMK
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ahmadullo Muqumjonov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Akbar O'ktamov has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at AGMK will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market23 Nov 2026
Only the photograph left for Akbar O'ktamov
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Akbar O'ktamov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AGMK the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad23 Nov 2026
A falling-out at AGMK
Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad23 Nov 2026
The medical room confirms 19 days on the sidelines for Sherzodjon Komilov, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad23 Nov 2026
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market23 Nov 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Aziz Xolmurodov signs something — a contract at AGMK or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad16 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A row about effort at AGMK
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ahmadullo Muqumjonov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Mirjamol Qosimov is on it.
Market16 Nov 2026
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.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A call-up flatters the player and the club that produced him in the same breath. AGMK would like him back in one piece and know they will not be consulted.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Umidjon Ergashev has written the date down.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad9 Nov 2026
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.
Market9 Nov 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mirzo Fayzullaev is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Abror Karimov gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Abror Karimov is on it.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
The AGMK board want somebody sold
The instruction has come from upstairs rather than from the dugout, which is the version of this conversation no manager enjoys. Somebody in that squad is now available whether the man who picks the team thinks so or not.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
153% of the income goes out in wages at AGMK
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Ali Abdurahmonov has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Asadbek Sobirjonov has written the date down.
Market2 Nov 2026
“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.
Market2 Nov 2026
AGMK have made Naoaki Senaga available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at AGMK, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Market26 Oct 2026
Only the photograph left for Akbar O'ktamov
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Akbar O'ktamov will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around AGMK the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A falling-out at AGMK
Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at AGMK
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market26 Oct 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Aziz Xolmurodov signs something — a contract at AGMK or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” AGMK have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad19 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
A promise honoured at AGMK
Something was said to Arihiro Sentoku and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at AGMK
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ahmadullo Muqumjonov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market19 Oct 2026
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.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad12 Oct 2026
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.
Market12 Oct 2026
One of our own: Odil Ganiev joins the AGMK first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Odil Ganiev is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad12 Oct 2026
8 new faces, and AGMK are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Abror Karimov gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Abror Karimov is on it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at AGMK. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Squad12 Oct 2026
He goes off to be somebody else’s player for a fortnight. AGMK lose him for the window and would like him returned in the condition he left.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at AGMK
Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 217% of everything AGMK earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at AGMK training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Akbar O'ktamov has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at AGMK will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Akbar O'ktamov asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Both of them Uroš Kojić's — 9.26
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.26, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Market28 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at AGMK is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A falling-out at AGMK
Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match26 Sep 2026
Sogdiana made AGMK work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad28 Sep 2026
11 goals and a season average of 7.30. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Behruzbek Asqarov has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.56, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match19 Sep 2026
AGMK come up short against Nasaf
Nasaf left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Match19 Sep 2026
The run is over for AGMK
4 matches without defeat, and then Nasaf. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Doniyor Mirzaev after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Market21 Sep 2026
AGMK have made Asadbek Sobirjonov available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The division's best last weekend was a AGMK man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Uroš Kojić was the best thing in any of them.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Mirjamol Qosimov has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at AGMK will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market21 Sep 2026
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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Match12 Sep 2026
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
A brace, and Uroš Kojić takes the afternoon — 9.68
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Uroš Kojić provided it, and the 9.68 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match12 Sep 2026
AGMK make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now AGMK have 4 straight wins of it.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Aziz Xolmurodov at his very best
Marked 8.81. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at AGMK.
Match12 Sep 2026
There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. Metallurg tried to reorganise, AGMK did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at AGMK training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Defences have started doubling up on Uroš Kojić
9 goals and a season average of 7.22 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
Squad14 Sep 2026
AGMK are still strangers to each other
7 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
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Market7 Sep 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what AGMK can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
AGMK close the window on a squad of their own making
13 in and 5 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Urartu is saying, and nobody at AGMK is enjoying the guessing.
Match5 Sep 2026
AGMK make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now AGMK have 3 straight wins of it.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Navbahor wanted more than $450.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at AGMK
Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
The crowd has taken to Uroš Kojić
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
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Match29 Aug 2026
No mercy from AGMK
Shortan will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. AGMK were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.25 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market31 Aug 2026
Navbahor come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and AGMK did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market31 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market31 Aug 2026
Akbar O'ktamov has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around AGMK they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Omonoia keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Boardroom31 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Akbar O'ktamov has agreed terms with Sogdiana for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A falling-out at AGMK
Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Santiago Wanderers have kept their man, and AGMK go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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Match19 Aug 2026
AGMK out of the cup
Nasaf ended it 0‑0. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A day Uroš Kojić will not forget
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Squad24 Aug 2026
1 kept out from twelve yards, and a stadium that will describe each of them for twenty years. A goalkeeper needs one night like this in a career, and this was it.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what AGMK can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Dinamo Minsk is saying, and nobody at AGMK is enjoying the guessing.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Navbahor wanted more than $910.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad24 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at AGMK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match22 Aug 2026
6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about AGMK and Obod in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
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Match15 Aug 2026
Nowhere to hide for AGMK
2‑6 against Navbahor, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Match12 Aug 2026
AGMK march on in the cup
Qizilqum are out and AGMK go through, 3‑2 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Market17 Aug 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Ali Abdurahmonov had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Match12 Aug 2026
Akbar O'ktamov wins it after the whistle should have gone
113 minutes played. Akbar O'ktamov found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Qizilqum went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.93, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A defender's goal wins it for AGMK — 7.79
1 for Behruzbek Asqarov, marked 7.79, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
The offer went to Navbahor this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$750.0K was the most the club would pay and Qizilqum were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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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Match8 Aug 2026
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.88, and nobody on the pitch better.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Ararat-Armenia is saying, and nobody at AGMK is enjoying the guessing.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at AGMK
Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The terraces10 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Uroš Kojić
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market10 Aug 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Otabek Abdullaev is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Dostonbek Abdullaev has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
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Market3 Aug 2026
Atyrau come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and AGMK did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Siavash Haghnazari commits to AGMK for another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at AGMK
Dilshodbek Ahmadaliyev and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
AGMK offered $360.0K; Lokomotiv said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
AGMK asked and APOEL said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. AGMK will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Match1 Aug 2026
Andijon made AGMK work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at AGMK training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.