The Irtysh Herald
Squad21 Jun 2027
Baktiyor Akhmetov damages knee ligaments — 36 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 36 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.
The terraces21 Jun 2027
Irtysh sell a favourite for $990.0K
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Yerkebulan Baizhanov was one of the reasons people came, and $990.0K does not replace that by itself.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
A defender's goal wins it for Irtysh — 7.48
1 for Oussama Chita, marked 7.48, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
Nobody could get near Kairat Tymoshchuk
Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market21 Jun 2027
Irtysh sell Yerkebulan Baizhanov for $990.0K
Yerkebulan Baizhanov has left for Atyrau in a $990.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Federico Freire 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.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Eldor Ahmedov 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.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Irtysh count the cost of losing Askhat Taykenov
33 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Loan watch21 Jun 2027
Gafurzhan Vorogovskiy has seen enough of Zhetysu
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Irtysh, and 4 appearances in 17 say he has earned the hearing.
In brief
- Match Irtysh share the spoils with Taraz
- Market Baurzhan Baizhanov placed on the list
- Market Marat Baizhanov joins AGMK on loan for regular minutes