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The Irtysh Herald

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match23 Aug 2027

Irtysh are in real trouble now

Position 10, 17 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Tempers go at Irtysh

Denis Mitrofanov was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Marko Živanović wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Irtysh can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Transfer targets23 Aug 2027

Irtysh rebuffed over Samuel Lobato

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Qarabag have kept their man, and Irtysh go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Transfer targets23 Aug 2027

Irtysh try to borrow Daniil Fomin

Dinamo Moscow 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.

The dugout23 Aug 2027

Oluwabori Falaye gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Oluwabori Falaye is on it.

The dugout23 Aug 2027

The manager makes an example of Zé Luiz

“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.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Macarrão: “I am not a substitute”

“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Irtysh will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.

Market23 Aug 2027

The shop window has Mykhaylo Zakharov in it

Irtysh have let the market know Mykhaylo Zakharov can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

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The Irtysh Herald

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets22 Feb 2027

Nikša Delibašić will not be coming to Irtysh

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Cukaricki is saying, and nobody at Irtysh is enjoying the guessing.

Transfer targets22 Feb 2027

Door shut on Denis Višinský

Irtysh asked and Slavia Prague said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad22 Feb 2027

Words at Irtysh training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Karam Sūltanov 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.

Squad22 Feb 2027

Matviy Huihanov 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 Irtysh this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets22 Feb 2027

Irtysh try to borrow David Milićević

Anorthosis 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.

The dugout22 Feb 2027

Oluwabori Falaye gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Oluwabori Falaye is on it.

Squad22 Feb 2027

The formation has left Macarrão behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Irtysh will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

The dugout22 Feb 2027

Jahongir Abdumo'minov has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Jahongir Abdumo'minov has written the date down.

Market22 Feb 2027

Still no ink between Irtysh and Zé Luiz

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Irtysh, another week without a signature from Zé Luiz.

In brief

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The Irtysh Herald

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets15 Feb 2027

No thanks: Ruslanbek Jiyanov rejects the move

Irtysh had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Navbahor, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad15 Feb 2027

Tempers go at Irtysh

Denis Mitrofanov was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad15 Feb 2027

A move Afonso Martins 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. Afonso Martins is living that version at Irtysh, and it tends to show in the first month.

Transfer targets15 Feb 2027

Door shut on Ruslanbek Jiyanov

Irtysh asked and Navbahor said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad15 Feb 2027

Irtysh are still strangers to each other

13 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Market15 Feb 2027

Irtysh buy the years ahead of João Biazzolo

He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Squad15 Feb 2027

Liam Jessop stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Liam Jessop and Irtysh agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout15 Feb 2027

Bauyrzhan Islamkhan has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Irtysh will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout15 Feb 2027

The manager makes Jahongir Abdumo'minov a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Irtysh. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief