Marked for Rinat Logvinenko
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market5 Jul 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Irtysh, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match3 Jul 2027
No end in sight to Irtysh's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Irtysh has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings5 Jul 2027
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Jul 2027
16 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market5 Jul 2027
Yeldos Shomko has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Irtysh they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Tempers go at Irtysh
Artur Shushenachev 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ğafurzhan Süiimbaev, and the manager let it.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Mourad Kaaouach 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.
Loan watch5 Jul 2027
“I did not go to Navbahor to sit and watch. I want to come back to Irtysh and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 22 matches say the rest.
Back issues
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Crisis
Match23 Jun 2027
Irtysh out of the cup
Kairat ended it 0‑5. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
The terraces28 Jun 2027
A cup hiding at Kairat leaves Irtysh explaining themselves
0-5, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.
Match26 Jun 2027
The wait goes on for Irtysh
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match26 Jun 2027
3 matches without a goal for Irtysh
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Market28 Jun 2027
Okzhetpes paid $28.0K and Irtysh took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Tempers go at Irtysh
Mourad Kaaouach 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.
Match26 Jun 2027
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings28 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom28 Jun 2027
Nobody left the Irtysh dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
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Crisis
Squad24 May 2027
The words a physio says slowly. 29 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market24 May 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Match22 May 2027
5 matches without a win for Irtysh
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Irtysh are no longer polite ones.
Match22 May 2027
A bad afternoon for Irtysh against Astana
1‑3 to Astana, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad24 May 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Maxim Baizhanov, and the manager let it.
Squad24 May 2027
Words at Irtysh training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Azat Baizhanov 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.
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Steady
Squad26 Apr 2027
62 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Irtysh lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Yeldos Shomko: 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 Apr 2027
Tempers go at Irtysh
Andile Jali 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.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad26 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Azat Shomko, and the manager let it.
Loan watch26 Apr 2027
“I did not go to Zhetysu to sit and watch. I want to come back to Irtysh and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
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Uneasy
Squad4 Jan 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 30 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad4 Jan 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Irtysh may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market4 Jan 2027
“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 Irtysh, and it is not being withdrawn.
In brief
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Words at Irtysh training over how hard people work
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Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Irtysh will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market9 Nov 2026
“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 Irtysh, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Irtysh
Yuto Ozeki 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.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Irtysh will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market12 Oct 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Rinat Logvinenko commits to Irtysh for another 3 years.
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Crisis
Match19 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Irtysh
1‑2 against Kairat, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Market24 Aug 2026
Irtysh say no — this time
The offer from Okzhetpes for Rinat Logvinenko 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Irtysh can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Irtysh
Andile Jali 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Zhetysu are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Irtysh will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Irtysh training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Azat Baizhanov 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Andile Jali
“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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
He is doing things on a Saturday afternoon that nobody around him can answer, which is flattering for about one season and a problem after that. Irtysh will not keep him by pretending otherwise.