The Okzhetpes Herald
Squad3 Aug 2026
Vasiliy Sovpel stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Vasiliy Sovpel and Okzhetpes agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Vasiliy Sovpel in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Okzhetpes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Dmitriy Borodin falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Ordabasy tell Okzhetpes: Victor Mudrac is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Appearance number 100 for Ivan Kuzmichev
100 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
Market3 Aug 2026
Nobody at Okzhetpes has picked up the phone to Vasiliy Sovpel
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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Igor' Trofimets is in the works
Okzhetpes have made the call to Aktobe. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Okzhetpes ask about Talğat Kusiapov
A loan enquiry to Aktobe: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Market3 Aug 2026
No place for Viktor Ziabko in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Viktor Ziabko has his answer from Okzhetpes; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
In brief
- The dugout Yeldos Tymoshchuk on the point
- Market Okzhetpes and Zhansūltan Mūkhametzhanov are talking past each other
- Player ratings Vladislav Vasiljev was unplayable