The Okzhetpes Herald
Market16 Nov 2026
Viktor Ziabko has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Okzhetpes they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Okzhetpes
Filip Stanić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Okzhetpes
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dmitriy Borodin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Zhansūltan Mūkhametzhanov gets it from the manager
“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 dugout16 Nov 2026
Nūrğaini Böribaev knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Nūrğaini Böribaev trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market16 Nov 2026
Nūrğaini Böribaev runs his contract down
2 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs Okzhetpes money.