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Marked for Paim

39 Edition

The Zhetysu Post

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad26 Apr 2027

Aslan Goyaev breaks a bone — 19 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 19 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match24 Apr 2027

No end in sight to Zhetysu's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Zhetysu has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad26 Apr 2027

Yaroslav Mikhailov 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 Zhetysu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout26 Apr 2027

The manager makes an example of Alan Chochiev

“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 dugout26 Apr 2027

A promise honoured at Zhetysu

Something was said to Josué Reinatti and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

Player ratings26 Apr 2027

Jovan Pajović was the difference for Zhetysu

Marked 7.38. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

The dugout26 Apr 2027

Rinat Suyumbayev on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Rinat Suyumbayev after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

Player ratings26 Apr 2027

Nūrbergen Nūrbol beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 13. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout26 Apr 2027

No place in the plan for Alan Chochiev

The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

In brief

Back issues
35 Edition

The Zhetysu Post

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad29 Mar 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Askhat Baltabekov

31 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Zhetysu lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad29 Mar 2027

Real improvement from Azamat Tuiakbaev at Zhetysu

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Azamat Tuiakbaev is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad29 Mar 2027

A falling-out at Zhetysu

Yaroslav Mikhailov and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad29 Mar 2027

Words at Zhetysu training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Samandarjon Mavlonqulov is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Looking ahead29 Mar 2027

Zhetysu take on the side everybody is chasing

Ordabasy arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.

Looking ahead29 Mar 2027

Ädilkhan Dobai goes back to face Ordabasy

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Ädilkhan Dobai’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Zhetysu needing him to play as if none of it matters.

In brief

34 Edition

The Zhetysu Post

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad22 Mar 2027

Askhat Baltabekov damages knee ligaments — 38 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 38 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 dugout22 Mar 2027

Yaroslav Mikhailov: 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.” Zhetysu have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings22 Mar 2027

Facundo García scores twice — 8.51

Two goals and a mark of 8.51 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad22 Mar 2027

6 saves: Josué Reinatti was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 6 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Market22 Mar 2027

Marko Živanović asks to leave Zhetysu

“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.

Squad22 Mar 2027

Yaroslav Mikhailov 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 Zhetysu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad22 Mar 2027

A move Paim would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Paim is living that version at Zhetysu, and it tends to show in the first month.

The terraces22 Mar 2027

The crowd has taken to Samandarjon Mavlonqulov

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.

Match20 Mar 2027

Zhetysu find a way past Shakhter

Shakhter made Zhetysu work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

In brief