The Irtysh Chronicle
Squad26 Oct 2026
Sergey Yelagin breaks a bone — 32 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 32 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Artem Kulakov: 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.” Irtysh have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Irtysh
Amirkhan Selyaev and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Danil Kapustyanskiy falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Alexey Solovjov
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Irtysh
15 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Match24 Oct 2026
Irtysh share the spoils with Kaluga
A 1‑1 draw with Kaluga leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Irtysh keep their word to Amirkhan Selyaev
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Fyodor Smolnikov was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Irtysh dressing room was either.
In brief
- Market The Alexandr Smirnov story refuses to die
- Player ratings Danil Kapustyanskiy was unplayable
- Player ratings The pass was always on for Roman Yanushkovskiy