From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad15 Nov 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market15 Nov 2027
Experience through the door at Qizilqum
Singnkhi Mpedi arrives at 35 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
Market15 Nov 2027
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Islom Kenjaboyev may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
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From our football correspondent
Steady
Boardroom8 Nov 2027
95% of the income goes out in wages at Qizilqum
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.
Squad8 Nov 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market8 Nov 2027
The name of Nikola Kumburović keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Qizilqum say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 Nov 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 Qizilqum can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Nov 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Qizilqum they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad1 Nov 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market1 Nov 2027
“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.
Squad1 Nov 2027
Jaba Jighauri has company in his position
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Jaba Jighauri keeps the shirt for now, at Qizilqum's convenience rather than his own.
Market1 Nov 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Qizilqum know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market25 Oct 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Qizilqum is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad25 Oct 2027
A new face in his position, and Jaba Jighauri suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Qizilqum have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
Market25 Oct 2027
The name of Oleksiy Shchebetun keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Qizilqum say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad25 Oct 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.
Market25 Oct 2027
No fee and no drama: Abrorjon Aliyev has signed at Qizilqum, and the wage bill is the only line that moved.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad18 Oct 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Qizilqum have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad18 Oct 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.
Squad18 Oct 2027
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Nikola Kumburović keeps the shirt for now, at Qizilqum's convenience rather than his own.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market11 Oct 2027
The name of Nikola Kumburović keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Qizilqum say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad11 Oct 2027
A new face in his position, and Nikola Kumburović suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Qizilqum have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
Market11 Oct 2027
The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Aleksandr Zevadinov arrives at Qizilqum with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market4 Oct 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 Qizilqum can pretend not to have heard.
Market4 Oct 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Qizilqum they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jaba Jighauri and Qizilqum agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
Wages eat 87% of everything Qizilqum 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.
Squad4 Oct 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market4 Oct 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Qizilqum know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market27 Sep 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Qizilqum is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match25 Sep 2027
Three points for Qizilqum, 1-0 the final word against Mashal in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad27 Sep 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.
Market27 Sep 2027
Qizilqum have made Islom Kenjaboyev available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
Market27 Sep 2027
The name of Oleksiy Shchebetun keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Qizilqum say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad27 Sep 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match18 Sep 2027
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3-0 against Shortan, and it could have been more.
Squad20 Sep 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.
Squad20 Sep 2027
4 goals and a season average of 7.21. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Shifted about, taken off before the hour, asked to do somebody else's running — Islom Kenjaboyev has had enough of being useful and would like to be picked. Qizilqum know, and have known for weeks.
Squad20 Sep 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.
Market20 Sep 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Qizilqum know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match11 Sep 2027
No end in sight to Qizilqum's wait for a win
7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Qizilqum has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad13 Sep 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.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Islom Kenjaboyev 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.
Match11 Sep 2027
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Obod defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
Market13 Sep 2027
The name of Nikola Kumburović keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Qizilqum say nothing, which says plenty.
Market13 Sep 2027
Qizilqum spent the window trying to move Bobomurod Bozorov on and nobody came. He trains with a squad that has already told him he is not part of it, and both sides now wait for the next one.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match4 Sep 2027
No end in sight to Qizilqum's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Qizilqum has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad6 Sep 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Qizilqum have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market6 Sep 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Qizilqum they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match4 Sep 2027
Beaten 1-2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad6 Sep 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.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Wages eat 91% of everything Qizilqum 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.
Squad6 Sep 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 Qizilqum, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad6 Sep 2027
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Qizilqum have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Market6 Sep 2027
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match28 Aug 2027
No end in sight to Qizilqum's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Qizilqum has to find a result from somewhere.
Market30 Aug 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Qizilqum is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad30 Aug 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.
Match28 Aug 2027
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad30 Aug 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.
Market30 Aug 2027
Qizilqum have made Islom Kenjaboyev available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match21 Aug 2027
No end in sight to Qizilqum's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Qizilqum has to find a result from somewhere.
Match21 Aug 2027
Andijon left with the points after a 0-2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad23 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Farhod Rahmatov
“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 terraces23 Aug 2027
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Farrux Jo'rayev 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A new face in his position, and Asror G'ofurov suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Qizilqum have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
Market23 Aug 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Qizilqum know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market23 Aug 2027
No fee, no negotiation, no argument: Sulton Rahmatov moves on to another club with his contract settled and the wage bill a little lighter.
Market23 Aug 2027
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Mustaqim Boboqulov leaves Qizilqum the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market16 Aug 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.
Market16 Aug 2027
The shirt still fits. Farrux Jo'rayev is back at Qizilqum, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad16 Aug 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.
Match14 Aug 2027
Pakhtakor left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad16 Aug 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Farrux Jo'rayev commits to Qizilqum for another 3 years.
Market16 Aug 2027
The name of Nikola Kumburović keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Qizilqum say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market9 Aug 2027
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Qizilqum they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match7 Aug 2027
0-1 to Kokand 1912, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad9 Aug 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.
Market9 Aug 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Qizilqum know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad9 Aug 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.
Market9 Aug 2027
No fee, no negotiation, no argument: Farrux Jo'rayev moves on to another club with his contract settled and the wage bill a little lighter.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market2 Aug 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Qizilqum is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad2 Aug 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.
Match31 Jul 2027
Lokomotiv left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad2 Aug 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 Qizilqum, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market2 Aug 2027
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Jaba Jighauri unhappy with how he is being used
Asked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Jaba Jighauri has let it be known that he does not like the way Qizilqum are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match24 Jul 2027
Three points for Qizilqum, 1-0 the final word against AGMK in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad26 Jul 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Suhrob Eshboyev 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
Uneasy
Market19 Jul 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.
Match17 Jul 2027
6 matches without a win for Qizilqum
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Qizilqum are no longer polite ones.
Squad19 Jul 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.
Match17 Jul 2027
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Bunyodkor came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Market19 Jul 2027
The name of Nikola Kumburović keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Qizilqum say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad19 Jul 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.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad12 Jul 2027
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match10 Jul 2027
5 matches without a win for Qizilqum
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Qizilqum are no longer polite ones.
Market12 Jul 2027
Akmaljon Muzaffarov has left for Nasaf in a $84.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Match10 Jul 2027
Neftchi left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad12 Jul 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.
Market12 Jul 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Qizilqum know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match3 Jul 2027
4 matches without a win for Qizilqum
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Qizilqum are no longer polite ones.
Squad5 Jul 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.
Match3 Jul 2027
It finished 2-2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad5 Jul 2027
The captaincy has been taken off Islom Kenjaboyev. Qizilqum will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
Squad5 Jul 2027
The captaincy goes to Shahzod Rahmatullayev. It is not a job that wins matches, but a dressing room always notices who is given it.
Market5 Jul 2027
The name of Oleksiy Shchebetun keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Qizilqum say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match26 Jun 2027
A bad afternoon for Qizilqum against Nasaf
0-2 to Nasaf, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad28 Jun 2027
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Farhod Rahmatov knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
Squad28 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Shahzod Turopov
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match16 Jun 2027
Lokomotiv ended it 1-2. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Market21 Jun 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
The terraces21 Jun 2027
The boos come down from three sides
“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 10 of the 33 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.
Squad21 Jun 2027
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Market21 Jun 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market21 Jun 2027
The Nasaf deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Akmaljon Muzaffarov reports back to Qizilqum with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad21 Jun 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match19 Jun 2027
0-1 to Metallurg, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Every debut is a small story about the future: Doniyor Nematov, 17 years old, off the academy pitches and into the first team. The parents in the stand will keep the programme.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 Jun 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.
Market14 Jun 2027
Metallurg come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Qizilqum did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Match12 Jun 2027
Three points for Qizilqum, 3-1 the final word against Mashal in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad14 Jun 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Shifted about, taken off before the hour, asked to do somebody else's running — Islom Kenjaboyev has had enough of being useful and would like to be picked. Qizilqum know, and have known for weeks.
Market14 Jun 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Qizilqum know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad7 Jun 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market7 Jun 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Qizilqum have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Match5 Jun 2027
Three points for Qizilqum, 1-0 the final word against Shortan in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces7 Jun 2027
He is the name in every column and on every phone-in, which is a heavy thing to carry at any age. Some footballers thrive on it; others are quietly finished by it.
Market7 Jun 2027
The name of Oleksiy Shchebetun keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Qizilqum say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad7 Jun 2027
The wait is over, and the relief was visible from the back of the stand. 2 for the season, and the next one always comes easier.
Market7 Jun 2027
7 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Qizilqum could get for him.
Squad7 Jun 2027
A rating of 6.48 was enough for the selectors, and nobody who watched the match is going to argue with them.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad31 May 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match29 May 2027
No end in sight to Qizilqum's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Qizilqum has to find a result from somewhere.
Match29 May 2027
Honours even between Qizilqum and Obod
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match22 May 2027
Beaten 0-2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad24 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Asror G'ofurov
“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.
Market24 May 2027
The name of Nikola Kumburović keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Qizilqum say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad17 May 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.
Squad17 May 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.
Match15 May 2027
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Bukhara came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The terraces10 May 2027
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 7 of the 33 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Squad10 May 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad10 May 2027
Farrux Jo'rayev: 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.” Qizilqum have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match1 May 2027
Three points for Qizilqum, 1-0 the final word against Pakhtakor in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad3 May 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad3 May 2027
Shifted about, taken off before the hour, asked to do somebody else's running — Shahzod Rahmatullayev has had enough of being useful and would like to be picked. Qizilqum know, and have known for weeks.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad26 Apr 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.
Match24 Apr 2027
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Kokand 1912 will be the happier side with the point.
Market26 Apr 2027
The name of Nikola Kumburović keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Qizilqum say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match17 Apr 2027
Lokomotiv left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad19 Apr 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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Qizilqum, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match10 Apr 2027
Qizilqum get the job done against AGMK
A 2-1 win over AGMK, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad12 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Farhod Rahmatov
“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 terraces12 Apr 2027
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
Squad12 Apr 2027
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Grigol Chabradze 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad5 Apr 2027
3 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match31 Mar 2027
Qizilqum march on in the cup
AGMK are out and Qizilqum go through, 1-1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Squad5 Apr 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Qizilqum have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad5 Apr 2027
26 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad5 Apr 2027
24 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Match3 Apr 2027
0-1 to Bunyodkor, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad29 Mar 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad29 Mar 2027
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Qizilqum have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad29 Mar 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Upbeat
Match20 Mar 2027
Still nobody has beaten Qizilqum
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match20 Mar 2027
Three points for Qizilqum, 2-1 the final word against Sogdiana in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad22 Mar 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad22 Mar 2027
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Squad22 Mar 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 Qizilqum, and both men came out saying it was fine.
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match13 Mar 2027
Still nobody has beaten Qizilqum
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match13 Mar 2027
A 1-0 win over Nasaf, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad15 Mar 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad8 Mar 2027
54 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jaba Jighauri commits to Qizilqum for another 2 years.
Match6 Mar 2027
Still nobody has beaten Qizilqum
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad8 Mar 2027
52 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market8 Mar 2027
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market8 Mar 2027
The shirt still fits. Farhod Nematov is back at Qizilqum, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market8 Mar 2027
The shirt still fits. Farhod Nematov is back at Qizilqum, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market8 Mar 2027
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad1 Mar 2027
The medical room confirms 48 days on the sidelines for Humoyunshoh Sayyotov, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad1 Mar 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market1 Mar 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Qizilqum know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Boardroom22 Feb 2027
89% of the income goes out in wages at Qizilqum
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.
Squad22 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match15 Feb 2027
Qizilqum up to position 3
16 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market15 Feb 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Qizilqum know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market15 Feb 2027
Qizilqum spent the window trying to move Farrux Jo'rayev on and nobody came. He trains with a squad that has already told him he is not part of it, and both sides now wait for the next one.
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Steady
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 Qizilqum can pretend not to have heard.
Squad8 Feb 2027
80 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad8 Feb 2027
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Shohruz Norxonov keeps the shirt for now, at Qizilqum's convenience rather than his own.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market1 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 Qizilqum can pretend not to have heard.
Market1 Feb 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Qizilqum know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A new face in his position, and Shohruz Norxonov suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Qizilqum have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
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Steady
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.
Boardroom25 Jan 2027
Wages eat 116% of everything Qizilqum earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad25 Jan 2027
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Shohruz Norxonov keeps the shirt for now, at Qizilqum's convenience rather than his own.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match18 Jan 2027
Qizilqum up to position 3
16 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A new face in his position, and Shohruz Norxonov suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Qizilqum have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
Market18 Jan 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Qizilqum know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad11 Jan 2027
The medical room confirms 109 days on the sidelines for Asror G'ofurov, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad11 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Diyor Rahmatullayev has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Qizilqum.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market4 Jan 2027
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Qizilqum has been clear about where Bobomurod Bozorov stands, which is more than many ever get.
Market4 Jan 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Qizilqum know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market4 Jan 2027
12 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market28 Dec 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Qizilqum they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom28 Dec 2026
Wages eat 277% of everything Qizilqum 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
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Ilhomjon Vahobov has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match21 Dec 2026
Qizilqum up to position 3
16 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market21 Dec 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Qizilqum know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Squad21 Dec 2026
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Shahzod Turopov plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market14 Dec 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 Qizilqum can pretend not to have heard.
Squad14 Dec 2026
140 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
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Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
Shahzod Turopov: 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.” Qizilqum have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad7 Dec 2026
The medical room confirms 34 days on the sidelines for Shohruz Norxonov, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market7 Dec 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Qizilqum know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market30 Nov 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Qizilqum they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad30 Nov 2026
17 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Wages eat 397% of everything Qizilqum earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match23 Nov 2026
Qizilqum up to position 3
16 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Ilhomjon Vahobov: 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.” Qizilqum have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad16 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.
Market16 Nov 2026
2 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Qizilqum could get for him.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad9 Nov 2026
65 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market9 Nov 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Qizilqum know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market9 Nov 2026
Qizilqum have made Ilhomjon Kenjayev available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market2 Nov 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Qizilqum they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages eat 397% of everything Qizilqum 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
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Islom Kenjaboyev has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match26 Oct 2026
Qizilqum up to position 3
16 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market26 Oct 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.
Market26 Oct 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Qizilqum know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad19 Oct 2026
The medical room confirms 29 days on the sidelines for Sulton Rahmatov, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Shahzod Turopov 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
Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
The medical room confirms 94 days on the sidelines for Shohruz Norxonov, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Oleksiy Shchebetun and Qizilqum agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market5 Oct 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Qizilqum they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
733% of the income goes out in wages at Qizilqum
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match28 Sep 2026
Qizilqum up to position 3
16 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market28 Sep 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match26 Sep 2026
Still nobody has beaten Qizilqum
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match26 Sep 2026
A 2-1 win over Mashal, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad28 Sep 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Zulfiqor Akbarov 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.
Market28 Sep 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Qizilqum know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match19 Sep 2026
Shortan made Qizilqum work for it, but the scoreboard read 3-1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad21 Sep 2026
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad21 Sep 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Islom Kenjaboyev unhappy with how he is being used
Asked to play a role that is not his, or taken off before the hour once too often — Islom Kenjaboyev has let it be known that he does not like the way Qizilqum are using him. Managers hear this long before the press does.
Market21 Sep 2026
3 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Qizilqum money.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match12 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Qizilqum's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Qizilqum has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad14 Sep 2026
123 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Farhod Rahmatov
“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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Qizilqum and Obod take a point apiece
It finished 2-2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad14 Sep 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Qizilqum have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tunde Micheal knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Qizilqum, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Market14 Sep 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Qizilqum know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market14 Sep 2026
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Xo'jamurod Tursunov leaves Qizilqum the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
Market14 Sep 2026
No fee, no negotiation, no argument: Sherzod Majidov moves on to another club with his contract settled and the wage bill a little lighter.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match5 Sep 2026
No end in sight to Qizilqum's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Qizilqum has to find a result from somewhere.
Market7 Sep 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Qizilqum they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Shahzod Rahmatullayev commits to Qizilqum for another 4 years.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Wages eat 606% of everything Qizilqum 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market7 Sep 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The captaincy has been taken off Ilhomjon Vahobov. Qizilqum will call it a decision about the team; a dressing room reads it as a verdict on a man.
Market7 Sep 2026
Experience through the door at Qizilqum
Tunde Micheal arrives at 36 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
From our football correspondent
Steady
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.
Match29 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Qizilqum's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Qizilqum has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad31 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match29 Aug 2026
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad31 Aug 2026
At 31 he has made the position his own, and the man he took it from has to find something to say about it. Qizilqum have a decision that made itself.
Squad31 Aug 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market24 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Asror G'ofurov
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match22 Aug 2026
It finished 1-1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Squad24 Aug 2026
At 34 he is in the side on merit and somebody else is watching from the bench. Places at Qizilqum are won quietly and lost loudly.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Shahzod Turopov 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
Steady
Match12 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Qizilqum
0-0 against AGMK, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Squad17 Aug 2026
1 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Market17 Aug 2026
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Qizilqum they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match15 Aug 2026
Pakhtakor left with the points after a 0-1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad17 Aug 2026
At 20 years old, Zulfiqor Akbarov became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A new face in his position, and Shohruz Norxonov suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Qizilqum have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
Market17 Aug 2026
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Qizilqum know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
Market17 Aug 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Shahzod Turopov may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Market10 Aug 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Qizilqum is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The medical room confirms 15 days on the sidelines for Shahzod Rahmatullayev, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Match8 Aug 2026
Three points for Qizilqum, 1-0 the final word against Kokand 1912 in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad10 Aug 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market10 Aug 2026
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Qizilqum has been clear about where G'iyosjon Rizaqulov stands, which is more than many ever get.
From our football correspondent
Triumph
Market3 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 Qizilqum can pretend not to have heard.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jaba Jighauri commits to Qizilqum for another 2 years.
Match1 Aug 2026
A 1-0 win over Lokomotiv, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market3 Aug 2026
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Market3 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Shahzod Turopov has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Qizilqum.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad3 Aug 2026
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Qizilqum have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Squad3 Aug 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.