Marked for Talgat Tymoshchuk
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad11 Jan 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Yerkebulan Baizhanov commits to Irtysh for another 3 years.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Irtysh
Hossein Saki 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
Hossein Saki 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Irtysh training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ahmed Jahouh 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Talgat Tymoshchuk’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Marat Postnikov out for 61 days
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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Irtysh
Timur Suyumbayev 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Hossein Saki 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.