The Kairat Chronicle
Match9 Sep 2026
The cup run ends for Kairat
0‑2 against Aktobe, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Market14 Sep 2026
Kairat say no — this time
The offer from Aktobe for Ramazan Bağdat was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market14 Sep 2026
Khalid Shakhtiev hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Kairat can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Kairat close the window on a squad of their own making
19 in and 3 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Agustín Páez gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Agustín Páez has just signed for Kairat, and for once the answer mattered.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Dinamo Minsk tell Kairat: Karen Vardanyan 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Kairat
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jorginho was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Kairat
Erkin Tapalov 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Kairat sign Agustín Páez with one eye on the future
Nobody at the club will say out loud who this signing is for, which is how you know exactly who it is for. Agustín Páez has been brought in to take a shirt somebody is still wearing.
In brief
- Squad Too much change too quickly at Kairat
- Loan watch Aleksandr Shirobokov has seen enough of Irtysh
- The dugout Timur Abiken answers for it