The Ordabasy Courier
Squad8 Feb 2027
143 days out for Bjørn Johnsen after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Ordabasy will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Sergei Malyi
23 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Ordabasy lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Ordabasy agree $82.0K for Josip Čondrić
The clubs have shaken hands with Astana; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Market8 Feb 2027
Sergei Malyi attracts admirers
The name of Sergei Malyi has come up in conversations Ordabasy were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Ismail Bekbolat will not be coming to Ordabasy
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Kairat is saying, and nobody at Ordabasy is enjoying the guessing.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Ryan gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Ryan has just signed for Ordabasy, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Home is on David Abagna's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Ordabasy are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Taraz tell Ordabasy: Zhandos Ömirzaqov 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.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Ordabasy try to borrow Artur Shushenachev
Aktobe 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.
In brief
- The dugout Guy-Marcelin Kilama knocks on the manager's door
- The dugout Tidiane Keita gets picked when it counts
- Market Ordabasy pick up Ryan for nothing