The Irtysh Herald
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Baurzhan Shomko at 21 — 7.66
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Baurzhan Shomko did not need any: 7.66, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market3 Aug 2026
Samat Kuat hands in a written request
“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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Irtysh
Rinat Logvinenko 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ordabasy Beysebekov signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ordabasy Beysebekov commits to Irtysh for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Azat Nuserbayev 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Irtysh and Ordabasy take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
Market3 Aug 2026
No place for Azat Taykenov in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Azat Taykenov has his answer from Irtysh; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Squad3 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Aibol Akhmetov
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Aibol Akhmetov, and the manager let it.
Market3 Aug 2026
Irtysh and Azat Shomko are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
In brief
- Market 24 months and counting on Ordabasy Beysebekov
- Player ratings Rinat Logvinenko runs at them all day
- Player ratings The referee tires of Azat Nuserbayev