The Irtysh Herald
Squad17 Aug 2026
Azat Shomko decides it from twelve yards
3 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match12 Aug 2026
Irtysh march on in the cup
Okzhetpes are out and Irtysh go through, 2‑2 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.
Market17 Aug 2026
Kairat come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Irtysh did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Talgat Suyumbayev, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.75
A mark of 7.75 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Ğafurzhan Süiimbaev in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Irtysh this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Irtysh training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mourad Kaaouach 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Maxim Baizhanov
“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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
The kick that got away from Maxim Baizhanov
Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.
Market17 Aug 2026
The Yeldos Shomko conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: Ordabasy will make the call about Yeldos Shomko this week. Irtysh have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
In brief
- Market No place for Timur Nuserbayev in the plan
- Market Irtysh borrow Talğat Kusiapov
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Dauren Dosmagambetov