The Okzhetpes Herald
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
Maxim Mukhin will not be coming to Okzhetpes
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Rostov is saying, and nobody at Okzhetpes is enjoying the guessing.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Okzhetpes
Vasiliy Sovpel 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
Wallace arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Wallace has, at Okzhetpes, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
Okzhetpes rebuffed over Artur Shushenachev
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Aktobe have kept their man, and Okzhetpes go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market15 Feb 2027
The Mohammed Ensebaev conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: Irtysh will make the call about Mohammed Ensebaev this week. Okzhetpes have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Okzhetpes
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Antony Dalbello was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
Okzhetpes try to borrow Dmitry Skopintsev
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.
Transfer targets15 Feb 2027
A loan move for David Semenchuk is in the works
Okzhetpes have made the call to Rostov. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Wallace stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Wallace and Okzhetpes agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
In brief
- The dugout Zhalğas Zhaqsylyqov gets it from the manager
- Market Okzhetpes pick up Wallace for nothing
- Market Still no ink between Okzhetpes and Victtor Chaves