Sallieu Bah

Central Midfielder - Tobol
26 Jun 2030
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195 Edition

The Tobol Post

22 Apr 2030
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings22 Apr 2030

Nauryzbek Zhagorov was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 38. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match22 Apr 2030

Tobol are in among the leaders

Position 3 and 14 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Player ratings22 Apr 2030

Wesley Klaassen, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 8.46

A mark of 8.46 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Player ratings22 Apr 2030

Vintage Edmilson — 8.23

At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.23, and nobody on the pitch better.

Market22 Apr 2030

Alan Agaev 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 Tobol can pretend not to have heard.

Market22 Apr 2030

Only the photograph left for Ilhomjon Kenjayev

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ilhomjon Kenjayev will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Tobol the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad22 Apr 2030

Tempers go at Tobol

Askhat Tağybergen 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.

Squad22 Apr 2030

Words at Tobol training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nauryzbek Zhagorov 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.

Match20 Apr 2030

Tobol get the job done against Zhetysu

A 2‑1 win over Zhetysu, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

In brief

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The Tobol Post

31 Dec 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad31 Dec 2029

Shahzod Turopov breaks a bone — 75 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 75 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match31 Dec 2029

Tobol up to position 2

53 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Market31 Dec 2029

Pavel Mogilevets puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Tobol, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market31 Dec 2029

Oleg Suvorov has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Tobol they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad31 Dec 2029

Words exchanged at Tobol

Askhat Tağybergen and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad31 Dec 2029

Words at Tobol training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Antonio Boršić 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.

Squad31 Dec 2029

Home is on Fernando Pileggi'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; Tobol are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

The dugout31 Dec 2029

When it matters, Antonio Boršić plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout31 Dec 2029

The manager makes an example of Oleg Suvorov

“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.

In brief

154 Edition

The Tobol Post

9 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Triumph

The dugout9 Jul 2029

Yurii Vakulko keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Tobol may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Match7 Jul 2029

Nobody wants to play Tobol right now

5 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad9 Jul 2029

6 saves: Oleg Suvorov 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.

Market9 Jul 2029

Merabi Uridia puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Tobol, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market9 Jul 2029

Tobol turn down Kairat for Sūltan Būsyrmanov

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Match7 Jul 2029

Another one collected away from home

5 on the bounce on the road for Tobol. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.

Squad9 Jul 2029

Rubin Hebaj is carrying Tobol

16 goals and a season average of 7.27. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad9 Jul 2029

Words exchanged at Tobol

Rubin Hebaj and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad9 Jul 2029

A move Nūrlan Däirov 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. Nūrlan Däirov is living that version at Tobol, and it tends to show in the first month.

In brief