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Market8 Feb 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.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Kuban keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
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.
Transfer targets8 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Shohruh Ahmedov is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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
“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.
Market8 Feb 2027
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.
Market8 Feb 2027
The window shut and Eldorbek Begimov is still in the building
AGMK spent a month trying to move him and nobody rang back. He trains with a squad that has told him where he stands, and both sides start counting down to the next one.
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Market1 Feb 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.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
“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.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
AGMK close the window on a squad of their own making
2 in and 1 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
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. AGMK have done the hard part with Kuban, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
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.
Squad1 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.
The dugout1 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.
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Market25 Jan 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market25 Jan 2027
The name of Ali Abdurahmonov has come up in conversations AGMK were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
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
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Neftekhimik have kept their man, and AGMK go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
A loan move for Mikhail Ageev is in the works
AGMK have made the call to Kuban. 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
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sherzodjon Komilov, and the manager let it.
Market25 Jan 2027
The name of Arihiro Sentoku keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AGMK say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
“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.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Mirjamol Qosimov has written the date down.
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Match18 Jan 2027
AGMK refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 19 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.
The dugout18 Jan 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 Jan 2027
AGMK say no — this time
The offer from Bunyodkor for Shahzod Toirov was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad18 Jan 2027
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.
Market18 Jan 2027
The name of Eldorbek Begimov has come up in conversations AGMK were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. PAOK have kept their man, and AGMK go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad18 Jan 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.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Dynamo Kyiv 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.
Market18 Jan 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Nodirbek Abdurazzoqov’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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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.
Transfer targets11 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
The phone has started ringing about Shahzod Toirov again, and this time the name on the line is Bunyodkor. AGMK are listening politely and promising nothing.
Market11 Jan 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Farhod Ismailov has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev, and the manager let it.
Squad11 Jan 2027
The medical room confirms 26 days on the sidelines for Odil Abdullaev, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
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 move for Anestis Mythou is in the works
AGMK have made the call to PAOK. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Market11 Jan 2027
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Sherzodjon Komilov has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at AGMK.
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Market4 Jan 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 18 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
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.
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.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
A loan move for Maxim Voronov is in the works
AGMK have made the call to CSKA Moscow. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
A loan move for Matej Tadič is in the works
AGMK have made the call to NK Maribor. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.
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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 eat 137% 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.
Squad28 Dec 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 dugout28 Dec 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market28 Dec 2026
The name of Arihiro Sentoku keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AGMK say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout28 Dec 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.
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Squad21 Dec 2026
20 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. AGMK lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match21 Dec 2026
AGMK are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 19 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Tempers go at AGMK
Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev 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.
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
“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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Squad14 Dec 2026
Javohir Ilyosov damages knee ligaments — 27 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 27 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
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.
Market14 Dec 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ulugbek Abdullaev has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
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
“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 dugout14 Dec 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.
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Squad7 Dec 2026
Javohir Ilyosov damages knee ligaments — 35 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 35 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
The dugout7 Dec 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.
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
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sherzodjon Komilov, and the manager let it.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Ali Abdurahmonov trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Squad30 Nov 2026
43 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. AGMK lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
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
Wages eat 157% 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.
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.
Market30 Nov 2026
The name of Arihiro Sentoku keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AGMK say nothing, which says plenty.
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Squad23 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Javohir Ilyosov
50 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. AGMK lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match23 Nov 2026
AGMK are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 19 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
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.
The dugout23 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.
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.
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Squad16 Nov 2026
Javohir Ilyosov damages knee ligaments — 57 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 57 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Boardroom16 Nov 2026
AGMK book their European place
Done, and with games to spare. Next season has floodlit nights against clubs from other countries in it, and the accounts have a line they did not have last year.
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
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. AGMK will quote 15 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad16 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.
Market16 Nov 2026
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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Squad9 Nov 2026
66 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. AGMK lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
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. Sherzod Mirzaev is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad9 Nov 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
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Squad2 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Javohir Ilyosov
75 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. AGMK lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
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.
Squad2 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.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 157% 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at AGMK training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abror Sarimsoqov 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 dugout2 Nov 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market2 Nov 2026
The name of Arihiro Sentoku keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AGMK say nothing, which says plenty.
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.
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Squad26 Oct 2026
82 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. AGMK lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match26 Oct 2026
AGMK are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 19 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
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.
Boardroom26 Oct 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Mirkomil Abdurazzoqov has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means AGMK have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
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
“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 dugout26 Oct 2026
Ali Abdurahmonov asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout26 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.
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Squad19 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Javohir Ilyosov
90 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. AGMK lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Ali Abdurahmonov: 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.
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.
Squad19 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 dugout19 Oct 2026
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. AGMK told Asadbek Sobirjonov something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Squad12 Oct 2026
97 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. AGMK lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” AGMK may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
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.
Squad12 Oct 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Abubakr-Rizo Turdialiyev trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market12 Oct 2026
The name of Nodirbek Abdurazzoqov keeps appearing in other people's back pages. AGMK say nothing, which says plenty.
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Upbeat
Squad5 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Javohir Ilyosov
105 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. AGMK lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
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 swallow 227% 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.
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Behruzbek Asqarov is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Squad28 Sep 2026
Javohir Ilyosov damages knee ligaments — 113 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 113 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match28 Sep 2026
AGMK refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 19 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.
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.
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
A bad afternoon for AGMK against Sogdiana
2‑3 to Sogdiana, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.14, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Behruzbek Asqarov was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.15. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
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Upbeat
Squad21 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Javohir Ilyosov
120 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. AGMK lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A brace, and Uroš Kojić takes the afternoon — 9.07
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Uroš Kojić provided it, and the 9.07 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad21 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.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
No thanks: Pedro Ataíde rejects the move
AGMK had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at APOEL, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
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.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Nasaf snatch it back from AGMK
A goal on 89 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.
Match19 Sep 2026
AGMK share the spoils with Nasaf
A 2‑2 draw with Nasaf leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Squad14 Sep 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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
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
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. 9.79, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match12 Sep 2026
Three points for AGMK, 3‑1 the final word against Metallurg in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Qizilqum will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Ilhomjon Kenjayev has pre-agreed a move to AGMK, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.
The terraces14 Sep 2026
At 22 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.
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
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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Squad7 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
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
Window shuts: 15 in, 4 out at AGMK
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 15 arrived, 4 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
AGMK had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Paide, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
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.
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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Tohirbek To'xtasinov has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means AGMK have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Minsk have kept their man, and AGMK go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
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Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 9.28 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A brace, and Aziz Xolmurodov takes the afternoon — 8.93
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Aziz Xolmurodov provided it, and the 8.93 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
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
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. AGMK have done the hard part with APOEL, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Anorthosis keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
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.
Match29 Aug 2026
6 goals as AGMK and Shortan go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between AGMK and Shortan, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
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Match22 Aug 2026
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against Obod, and it could have been more.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.81 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: APOEL keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad24 Aug 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.
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Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 39. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match12 Aug 2026
The small margins put AGMK out
Out, 0‑1 to Qizilqum, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows 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.
Squad17 Aug 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Ordabasy 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Alashkert, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
AGMK had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Dinamo Minsk, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Navbahor left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
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Triumph
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Akbar O'ktamov has agreed terms with Navbahor for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.
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.
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
At 22 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
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ulugbek Suyunov 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Akmal Ismailov joins the AGMK first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Akmal Ismailov 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
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Eldor Mirzaev has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Bobur Suyunov 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.
Match8 Aug 2026
Three points for AGMK, 1‑0 the final word against Bukhara in a contest settled by the finer margins.
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Triumph
Market3 Aug 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Ali Abdurahmonov has come up in conversations AGMK were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Siavash Haghnazari commits to AGMK for another 3 years.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Sportivo Luqueno wanted more than $480.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
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 asked and Baniyas 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
At 22 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
AGMK get the job done against Andijon
A 1‑0 win over Andijon, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
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.